Milan DBMM Tournament
The Milan DBMM Tournament will be held on 1st-2nd December . It will be a Second Period tournament, so you can use any army and ally combination within the 500 BC - 476 AD timespan.
Tournament Staff
CinC coordinator Veranstalter Paolo Paglianti
List checker Marco Boniardi
Umpire Lorenzo Mele
Invaluable helper for everything -> Paolo Viganò
Subscription
Entries must be sent to CinC Coordinator Paolo Paglianti within 20th November; also, you need to send your army list to the Italian Championship Official List Checker, Marco Boniardi (who will play and show his list before any of his games).Under Italian DBMM Championship rules, you lose one point for every day you are late in submitting the list, so please remember to send the list in time.
The price for the event is 20 euros, and we are going to play in Università Europea degli Sport della Mente (UESM), a.k.a. La Ludoteca di via Sant'Uguzzone in Milano.
This price includes entry to the tournament and various prizes to be unveiled soon.
Speaking of prizes, there will be cups for the best players, a special prize for the best painted army and a nice one for the first player to have an ally command unreliable.
ArmyLists
We use standard DBMM 2.1 tournament rules, with 400 AP armies. We are going to use the last known DBMM commentaries and updated lists in the Rules Book 2.1.
Tournament timetable
1st December, Saturday
10:00 - 10:30 subscrption payment and Italian cappuccino at the closest pub
11:00 - 14:45 first game
14:45 - 15:30 lunch
15:30 - 19:15 second game
21:00 - Dinner, when you can joke opponents or blame dice
2nd December, Sunday
9:00 - 12:45 third game
12:45 - 13:30 lunch
13:30 - 17:15 forth game
17:30 - 18:00 prize giving
Tournament rules
We will use DBMM 2.1 English rulebook: the tournament will be on four game, with 400 AP 15 mm armies, fully painted and recognizable. We are going to use the last known DBMM commentary.
In each game, full weather and time rules will be used if one of the players chooses to use them. Players will use their own terrain pieces: if you think your opponent is using illegal terrain pieces, you can ask the umpire to check them and, if he agrees with you, he will remove them with no possible replacement.Games will last 3:14 hours + 1-15 minute period choosen randomly by the umpire-player. After two hours, any game with less than 6 bounds fully completed will begin to use Blitzes (5 minutes per bound); at the end of the game, when Umpire calls for "end of battles", you will make equal bounds for attacker/defender. Also, if you didn't manage to complete 8 full bounds, you will use Blitzes (2 minutes per bound).
Then the game starts, if a player is not at his table within 20 minutes (and with not a valid cause), he will lose the game 0-25 to his opponent.
Lorenzo Mele will be the Umpire.
Where to sleep
Hotels and Bed&Breakfasts close to the tournament place
Bed & Breakfast "Il Girasole" ***
via Doberdò, 19 - Milano
tel 0039 02 27080738
(www.bbilgirasole.it)
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| Marco Cioffi lingers about his next game, 25 Kg ago |
via Renzo Del Riccio, 200 - Sesto San Giovanni
tel 0039 02 2482948
(www.hotelbert.com)
Hotel Europa ***
Via Firenze, 49 - Sesto San Giovanni
tel 0039 0226225497 fax 0039 02 26225499
Hotel St. John ****
via Buozzi, 97 - Sesto San Giovanni
tel 0039 02 2405641 fax: 0039 02 22470777
(metro rondò)
Grand Hotel Baroni di Sassi ****
Piazza Oldrini, 80 - Sesto San Giovanni
tel: 0039 02241141 fax: 0039 241140000
How to get to the Tournament place
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Ludoteca Casa dei Giochi / UESM is a former kindergarden, with 1.200 square meters for wargames, boardgames, cardgames, live roleplay and chess. The address is via Sant'Uguzzone, a small street across the much larger Viale Monza avenue. When you enter via Sant'Uguzzone, you will see a white building on the right within an huge garden: this is where will play our tournament!
With public transportations
Ludoteca is within walk distance fairly midway between two MM1 Red Underground Line, Villa San Giovanni and Sesto Marelli. From Downtown (Duomo station) is just a 15 minutes ride.
Metropolitana Milano website
Ferrovie dello Stato website
By air transportation
Linate Airport is really close: you can get to the Ludoteca with a 20 minute ride (circa 30 euros). Malpensa and Orio al Serio, served by lots of low cost aircompanies, are a bit farther: one hour ride (100-120 euros by cab, but you can use trains or buses to save lots of money).
Linate/Malpensa website
Orio al Serio website