WARANGEL AWARDS,
TOURNAMENTS AND CONVENTIONS 1998-2000
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WARANGEL 1st TOURNAMENT
1998
First tournament took place in 1998, two
years later Warangel first edition of 1996 distributed in collectible issues.
The Tournament was
organized in hystorical ludoteque La Cittą del Gioco here
in Milano, on tables with 4 players each. It was
won by GHOSTS, leaded, smaterialized and
constantly re-feed with Undeads by Fabrizio
Capriata. Actually, Ghosts' main characteristic
is to capture the soul of just killed enemy and
"trap" it in its same body, that
becomes an Undead, a new unstoppable infantryman
of this army.
In the picture the Master Ghost together with an Undead and a
Skeleton , is conquering the second Fortress of Templars' army. |
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WARANGEL 2nd TOURNAMENT
1999
Second Tournament, played in Blues Brothers
game-shop always in Milano, was won by TEMPLARS,
leaded by great Marco Vaccari from Verona.
In the final battle with 6 teams, when all armies
were decimated, he was able to conquer with his
infantrymen a decisve fortress to Eagles, and
gain victory. Laudable, because he believed in
victory up to the end, and got it with infantry
caste, a tactic I never seen before, that shows
me, once more, that Warangel will always surprise
me.
In the picture a Dominant Templar is fighting
against a Winged Leotaur of Masters' army. |
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LUDEX 2000 - BOLOGNA
WARANGEL 1st NATIONAL TOURNAMENT
1st Warangel national tournament took place in
Ludex 2000- Bologna where the game was awarded as
BEST ITALIAN BOARDGAME
A sincere thank to organizer Yvonne, Sergio e
Piero Cioni that awarded the Game with a nice cup and
yet gave three cups for the three places in the
tournament. Third place was reached by Rensi
Massimiliano from Imola with Ghosts, the second
placement by Riccardo Sansano from Milano
(Tentaculates) and the winner was Alex Leati from
Bologna with EAGLES. Toghether with organizer
Piero Cioni, I played a friendly battle, Cosmics
(me) vs Elementals (Piero), where the
"greatest forces of universe" faced
with sea-quakes, destroing mantras, storms and
gravity annullers. The game was suspended not to
destroy the dome...!
In the photo, starting from leftside: Rensi the
Ghost, Sergio that is Ludex in person, WarAngelo,
the awarded one, visibly moved, Alex
"Bald-Eagle" preparing to final battle
(still with "screens" on) versus
Riccardo the Tentaculated. In front of me, the
good Piero, supreme referee, placing his
Elementals, while the crowd is acclaiming... |
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GIOCAVERCELLI 2000
In this group you see the friends (many from
newsgroup it.hobby.giochi) that meet in a nice
battle with four armies, in Giocavercelli.
From leftside Gianni Cottogni, Gylas,
Dragonpaint, Vigiak, Umberto Boredon, me and
Lorenzo Bocchio.
The battle was Mystics of Gianni, Ghosts of
Gylas, Aliens of Umberto and COWRIDERS
(from mad 7th Generation) leaded by me, that
using their battle-shovels reached to conquer the
Aliens' fortresses.
A thank to Vigiak for organization and for
inviting me, to Cristina (Dragon's wife) for
sending this picture. |
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VERCON 2000 VERONA
Tournament in Verona was a
"triangular" Milano-Bergamo-Firenze.
The winners are the NORTHERNERS leaded by
Elena Mascelloni from Firenze (four matches, four
victories) that defeat in the final Andrea
Remondini from Bergamo with the Chelates. All
gamers, during the tournament, always keept their
favourite army. A particular award goes to Niga
from Bergamo that, althought placed as last one,
wanted to experiment always new races. This is
the spirit of the game! A really nice character,
the "icon" of this tournament, for his
liking, his Bergamo's accent and his gallons of
beer. In the friendly battle he played with me
(Porks vs Egyptians) he experimented the
resuscitate power of Anubi, the Egyptian godness
of death. After fight with all forces to
re-conquer his fortress invaded by an Anubi
warrior, and just after defeating it, the Porks
just watched it rasuscitating himself. This
attempt was the only one reached by Anubi, after
the many other failed during the battle and this
resuscitation solved the game, between the grunts
of Porks that Niga imitate with unarrivable
grandness. |
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LUCCAGAMES 2000
In LuccaGames 2000 was presented the first
selfproduced boxed edition of Warangel. On
31-10-2000, Warangel got the main Italian luding
award, the BEST OF SHOW as
BEST ITALIAN GAME
in the greatest luding fair in Italy (that year
more than 40.000 people).
In Bologna, the award was assigned by gamers; in
Lucca the Best Italian Game was given by a Jury
of journalists, game dealers and people who work
in the world of games. A great confirmation of
Bologna award and a complete response for
Warangel.
In this picture Warangel in a demo with 4 players
game. |
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After the award celebration, back in
the stands with the cup, organizers, and some
jury members.
A particular thank to Emanuele Vietina (the
taller one) that, with Indipendence Bay,
allowed to self-produced italian games to have a
really important presence inside Lucca 2000.Other
finalsits that year where games such as Pokemon
or Mage Knight: a real honour for a home made
game like Warangel I enjoy to create and
illustrate.
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MILANOGAMES 2000
On 25-11-2000, Warangel received a wonderfull
golden plate as
BEST
ITALIAN FANTASY WARGAME
MilanoGames is the greatest italian luding
convention for wargamers, this award really gives
a further value to its previous awards. Once more
thanks to organizers, this time Lorenzo Sartori
(first on the left), that gave the opportunity to
set-up the Warangel Gallery with the original
illustrations of this game.
2000 was a year really full of satisfactions.
Last one, first requests from USA and out of
Italy Gamers.
Thanks to everyone! |
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