The Lucca Comics and Games convention was great. Monte Cook and Michael Moorcock were in (although I was at my booth when they were around so I didn't get to meet them-- I met Monte at Origins already). My coolest moment was when Joe Dever (of Lone Wolf fame) visited my booth.

More than 50.000 people visited. We ran out of both SBH and SDS books. Sergio ran a SDS Large Battle table, demoing a preview of the rules in 15mm. We both ran SDS and I also did a samurai vs ninja scenario as a preview from the non-upcoming (it will take time) Song of Shadow and Honor, to please the large Anime fan/nippophile crowd attending the show. The wargames area had an historical theme so we agreed that ninjas were historical enough as long as they weren't teleporting :-)

I shared the booth with two great game designers. Massimo Torriani (of Operation WW2 -- this is the guy who, among other things, developed and brought Mutant Chronicles in Italy) and his friend Adriano, and Lorenzo Sartori of Impetus (he is also the publisher of the Dadi & Piombo magazine and the director of the Dadi.com show in Crema, the largest wargaming show in continental Europe). Lorenzo was responsible for the "meet the authors" booth in the wargaming area. We'll work together on some new project, but no news on this front until we know more.

The show took over the whole city. Luckily I and Sergio were guests so I had a free pass for the dedicated car parking lot, otherwise parking would have been a big issue. All the hotels were sold out and it was almost impossible to find a seat in a restaurant unless you booked early in the afternoon. There were comics and games everywhere, and there were comic-and anime inspired bands playing, there was dancing etc every night. The show lasted from Thursday morning to late Sunday. I got home at 2 in the night after a 6 hour drive.

I was interviewed by the Gioconomicon portal.

You can see pictures from the show on this site: http://gioconomicon.net/modules.php?name=coppermine&cat=22

The site is in Italian but it's quite easy to navigate through the piccies.

click here to see the ganesha booth: http://gioconomicon.net/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=154&pos=59 (I'm the guy sitting, you can see the new Ganesha roll up poster behind me)

As it happens with most Italian shows, it was graced by a large number of cute cosplayers. Click on "I fiori di Lucca" (the Flowers of Lucca) to see the cute girls.

Ganesha Games will have a Song of Drums and Shakos table every day (Wednesday to Sunday, November 1st) at the Lucca Comics and Games convention in Lucca, Italy (luccacomicsandgames.com).

We will run non-stop skirmish games every day. Games will include scenarios and profiles from the upcoming supplement More Drums and Shakos. Saturday and Sunday, Sergio Llaiscia will run a large table with a preview of the large scale SDS rules (played at divisional level).

Although the event is strictly historical, feel free to come to our tables, ask questions, and make requests for all of our games.

As an aside, if you order anything from Ganesha during this convention, we won't be able to send it until Tuesday morning… be patient please, or use the fine services provided by sites such as wargamedownloads.com, lulu.com/songofblades , wargamevault.com or sabersedge.com to buy our products!

Song of Deeds and Glory PDF available

Song of Deeds and Glory is an expansion for the popular Song of Blades and Heroes miniatures rules. It features all the rules and guidelines needed to run extended campaigns, taking warriors from green recruits to grizzled veterans. Now players can send their warbands on the path to conquest and carve out their own territories!

This book includes rules such as:

Territories: own land, defend it from usurpers, or launch raids on your neighbors
Scenarios: a multitude of new combat situations
The aftermath of battle: will your heroes live or be horribly crippled?
Exploration: find strange and useful treasure and visit exotic, dangerous locales
Shopping: use your warband's hard-earned gold to purchase the finest gear or hire the services of experts
Development: watch your characters grow as they survive new battles. Boost their stats, train them in new skills, or send them on personal quests
Special rules: 15 exciting new powers such as Immortal, Enchanter, and Illusionist
Rosters: 36 new creatures such as the Minotaur Skeleton, the Dwarf Gunner, Insectoids, Automatons, and the powerful Kryxxtendrella, Queen of Dragons!

The 40 pages pdf is available for $8 directly from me as emailware (andreasfiligoi@gmail.com) or as a download from wargamevault http://www.wargamevault.com/product_info.php?products_id=65050

The print version will be available in the next few days. Check this space!

http://www.wargamevault.com/product_info.php?products_id=63529&filters=0_0_0&manufacturers_id=2502

Fight for Queen, Country, and Honey!

Song of Fur and Buttons is a campaign sourcebook for the Origins-nominated Song of Blades and Heroes miniature rules.

The book follows the exploits of three adventurous teddy bears, Sir Maurice Fursworth, Sir William Cuddlesbury and Sir Uppity Paws.

Fight and race Dinosaurs, form alliances with the Kermitians, swashbuckle with pirate teddies and fight against the evil Picnic Bear / Terrashell armies, in a quest to save your friends.

Twelve very unique and challenging scenarios to play through, all of which can be replayed with your own figures.

Great for parent/child gaming, or for big kids with big imaginations,Song of Fur and Buttons is an engaging, interactive bedtime story. Read a chapter and then play the scenario to see what happens. Just remember, no one ever dies: a bit of stuffing and a sewing kit and your heroes are back on the battlefield in no time.

The original Song of Blades and Heroes Rulebook is required to play this game. To fully enjoy this book, ownership of the previous supplements Song of Gold and Darkness and Song of Wind and Water is recommended.

Based on a miniature line by Eureka Miniatures. Full color photographs.

The pdf is available for $8 on wargamevault at the link above.

song of drums and shakos wins an award at Origins 2009!!!

Our Song of Drums and Shakos Napoleonic skirmish rules (written by Sergio Laliscia) won the best historical miniature rules award at Origins 2009!

Actually, we tied with Osprey/Slitherine's "Field of Glory" ancient rules. Congratulations to all those involved and a huge Thank You to all the Origins visitors who played the game at our table and voted for us, and also to the amazing Origins staff, the volunteers and the GMs ran scenarios in the Miniature Hall. We had great fun this year at Origins and we'll make sure to participate next year as well.

meet Ganesha Games at Origins 2009

This is Ganesha's program at Origins 2009 (Columbus, OH, June 24th to 28th). Make sure you come at our tables if you attend, and please vote for our Song of Drums and Shakos napoleonic skirmish rules in the Best Historical Miniature Rules award. All our events are ongoing -- short scenarios repeated during the day, so check the Origins guide for details and hours.


Wednesday and Thursday
Fear and Faith demo game. Zombie survivors must recover a crate of grenades in a zombie-infested area.

Song of Drums and Shakos demo game. A meeting engagement near a village.
The SDS scenario will be repeated every day with different forces.

Wednesday Night:
Playtest game of Tales of Blades and Heroes, the RPG based on SBH.

Friday
Multiplayer Mutants and Death Ray Guns scenarios (two, one ran by Ganesha and another by another GM)
SDS meeting engagement scenario.
Tales of Blades and Heroes playtest in the night.

Saturday and Sunday
"Song of Blades for Dummies", an introductory scenario aimed at new players;
SDS meeting engagement.

Also remember that there will be other SBH and MDRG tables in the miniature hall, and that Splintered Light Miniatures will be demoing Song of the Splintered Lands.

See you there!

Fear and Faith PDF available

NIGHTMARES BECOME REAL, AND THE DEAD WALK THE EARTH!All the monsters from man's worst nightmares come alive in this set of fast-playing horror miniature rules which is based on the popular, Origins-nominated Song of Blades and Heroes mechanics. Fight zombies, vampires, mad slashers, ghosts, werewolves, witches and other bloodcurdling monstrosities straight out of the folklore books and horror movies. Hunt for them - before they hunt YOU!

Fear and Faith includes:

Complete rules for vampires, werewolves, ghosts, demons and zombies
Simple Fear mechanics
A tactical system where your decisions matter
Weapons like silver blades, stakes, chainsaws, shotguns, assault rifles, vials of holy water, grenades and more
Game stats for hundreds of creatures and heroes - characters from Victorian novels, researchers of the occult, chainsaw-wielding maniacs, minions of the many-tentacled space gods, undead pigeons and the dread Zombie Elephant
Fast playing rules that can be used with or without a GM
Excellent solo playability
Play in any scale, with any type of miniatures, on a 3'x3' table
Online support via a free webzine and an active community of players
Six Scenarios included (Zombies, Vampires, Slashers, Werewolves, Ghosts, and Vampires vs Werewolves)
Simple campaign rules to let your heroes grow stronger - or succumb to the powers of Evil and become worse than the monsters they hunt!

This version of the PDF comes with a $1 donation for the cancer wing of the Santa Maria Hospital in Terni, Italy. Money will be used to buy an air conditioning unit and other renovation work.

Send $9 paypal (or $8 without the donation) to andreasfiligoi@gmail.com or purchase the rules on wargamesvault.com

A printed version will soon be available. Watch this space.