D.E.I. - Divide et Impera is a competitive game based on conquests of resources, set in a world devastated by a New Ice Age
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The Story is going on
almost 4 years ago
– Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 01:15:34 AM
Hello Scrappers!
The hot summer has arrived but in the cold of Old London, the struggle for survival is always alive!
Finally, in the last month, we have been able to resume our playtest sessions on the DEI additional material! Tommaso Battista has collected a lot of feedback left on various forums by the players who are testing DEI on TTS and has gone to work to review those parts of the base game that have left some doubt in the community. We are also very happy that those who have tried it have given us excellent feedback, finding the excellent quality of the game, which thanks to this playtest session on TTS will only improve!
But after this first month of Playtest, we can start giving you some new information on DEI unedited material starting from some of the coolest characters among those unlocked during the KS, the Mercenaries!
If you want to play with the Mercenaries, at the beginning of each game, a random Mercenary is drawn from those available (2 in the case of 5 or 6 player games).
The Mercenary is placed on the tile furthest from the one with the starting Refuges. In the event of multiple possible positions, the last player in turn decides the position of the Mercenary (in 5 or 6 players the second Mercenary is placed by the penultimate of the turn and at least two tiles away from the other Mercenary).
Mercenaries are units that come under the control of the first player who - meeting certain requirements - brings their Leader to the same region as the Mercenary.
Once gained, a Mercenary remains under the control of a player until the end of the game.
Mercenaries are for all intents and purposes units that can perform basic actions and provide 1 point for Majority purposes.
Controlling a Mercenary also grants 6 Supplies at the end of the game!
But what do the Mercenaries do? Well there we will find out all in the next updates, but today we want to talk about one of our favorites and certainly one of which we are most fond of since it comes from our second game, Sine Tempore! I'm obviously talking about Alexandra, the courageous Genesis medical officer, and on this occasion, we also present her new, wonderful artwork!
Did you need help from Alexandra?
As her many arms suggest, Alexandra is in an alien, who arrived on earth millennia ago with the crash of the Ark-Ship Genesis on our planet. Alexandra has slept for millennia in cryogenic sleep, But the Purebreeds revived her with the aim of using her knowledge for their purposes, and their plan would have been successful if an old friend of Alexandra had not freed her. Now Alexandra moves through the streets of Old London to help the survivors and her hate for the Purebreeds means that very often she teams up with some bands of Survivors for short periods of time.
In play, Alexandra can be "hired" by a leader, if he/she has played cards with 7 equal symbols on its pad (for example if you have a total of 7 Movement symbols among all the cards played on the pad).
Once hired, when Collect symbols are played in her Region, each symbol will allow you to Collect 2 Resources instead of one.
So with her skill, she can get you to contend the Ravagers for the title of best collectors in Old London! Hiring her, however, will not be so easy and will require careful planning of the Turn and the purchases to be made in the Market!
We will continue this roundup about Mercenaries in the next updates in order to make you discover all the surprises that await on the streets of Old London!
Before greeting you, I also update you on the Pledge Manager front.
Unfortunately, due to the delay due to the lockdown, we still need some time to establish the exact content of the new boxes and their weight and size, the playtests are also needed for this. Until we have these data we cannot make precise estimates for shipping costs and given the general situation we must be very careful not to make mistakes.
For this reason, we still need some time before opening the PM but we hope for August to have all the data we need to be able to open it and allow you to make your purchases in peace. I am sorry to postpone further but I am sure you will understand that all this is due to the serious and extraordinary situation in which we have found ourselves in the past few months.
Now that we have started producing material again, I also hope to increase the number of updates, so I refer you at the end of the month for the next update, hoping to be able to give you good news also on the Pledge Manager!
For the Awakening!
Back to the city!
almost 4 years ago
– Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:12:55 PM
Hello Scrappers!
Finally, in Italy, we have left the Lockdown behind us and the situation is slowly returning to normal. We sincerely hope that the situation has improved for you too and you are returning to your lives!
But how is it going to Old London?
As you know, the development work on Stretch goals and expansions has suffered a sharp setback during the last few months and this has not allowed us to continue the work on this project as we would have liked.
Fortunately, Tommaso Battista (the designer of D.E.I.) has continued his work for the creation of the new rules and now that the restrictions in Italy have eased we will start the playtest phase of all that produced in these long months of isolation from Tommaso.
As soon as we have definitive rules the artistic sector will resume work on the new materials of D.E.I., for this reason, I hope that from the next update I will be able to show you something new about Stretch Goals and expansions.
In the meantime, we have seen that many of you have ventured into the first games on TTS and we have collected positive feedback and also some criticisms that are helping us to improve the game even more! If you haven't played it yet, the Mod is always available for you!
The production in our plans, before the COVID 19 crisis, should have started for the month of August, at the moment we are not sure that by that date we will have finished our tests and the pre-production work due to the stop of the last months. We will do our utmost to make up for the gap, but we do not exclude that the start of production, and consequently the shipment, may be delayed for a few months. As you know for us, giving you a 100% enjoyable game is the priority, and if this will entail a few months of waiting compared to January 2021, we will ask you to have a little patience to receive a product that lives up to your expectations.
The fact that the core box material is ready will help us focus on the extras and save a lot of time!
As for the Pledge Manager, it will be opened in the middle of July 2020. We are sorry for having postponed its opening so much but the general situation has not put us in a position to do it sooner. In the next update, we will give you more details on this too!
Well, Scrappers, that's all for this short update, I really hope that from next time we can do some juicy spoilers on the still unpublished material, in the meantime I thank you for the affection and support you are giving us!
For the awakening! (and stay safe!)
News from Old London!
almost 4 years ago
– Sat, May 09, 2020 at 01:41:22 AM
Hello Scrappers!
From Radio OLd London we hope that all of you and your loved ones are doing well!
Here in Italy, the situation has slightly improved and we have entered the so-called "Phase 2" which will allow a little more freedom of movement even if it will still take a long time to get back to normal!
The LMS team is safe and working from home we are carrying out all our projects, and of course DEI!
In these two months, Tommaso Battista (DEI designer) has worked and is working on the rules of the new contents (SG and Expansions) that you admired during the KS campaign.
Unfortunately, the ban on gatherings here in Italy is still in force, so for the moment we cannot gather our faithful playtest groups and we are testing these new rules internally with alternative methods.
It is very probable, however, that in the coming months we will also ask for your help by providing you with material in P&P to try or using the TTS MOD.
We strongly believe in the interaction between project creators and backers and even in the past we have asked the help of our supporters to examine and test our products, so anyone who wants to help us will be welcome!
Try DEI on TTS!
About DEI on TTS, what do you think? have you tried it? those who have not yet done so can do so by downloading the mod here and join the group on Discord to chat and give feedback!
Besides, thanks to the first feedback received from the players on TTS we have uploaded a new version of the ENG and ITA rules that correct and clarify some rules.
You can find them here:
For the other languages, we ask you a little more patience, we want to definitively close the core rules before proceeding with the translation of the other languages, but it is not far away now.
As for the Pledge Manager, we would like to open it when the world situation has improved, also to have a precise estimate on shipping costs, following the crisis.
For the moment, the opening of the PM remains set for June 2020, but, likely, it will probably be the end of that month.
Even for the production, it is a little early to make precise estimates, we are confident of being able to avoid delays but we will have more precise data in the coming months, for the moment the delivery date remains set for January 2021 as scheduled.
All guys for this update, as usual, from the next we will start showing you new unpublished material, all the LMS staff thanks you for the support and support you are giving us, see you on the message board for your comments!
For the Awakening! (and stay safe!)
D.E.I. in the Quarantine
about 4 years ago
– Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 12:41:54 AM
Hello Scrappers!
a month has passed since our last update and many things have changed around the world.
The crisis due to the Coronavirus Outbreak now no longer affects only China and Italy is at the moment one of the most affected countries (after the USA and Spain, we are with you brothers!).
Since March 9 in Italy, the government has applied a general Lockdown procedure to contain the infection and at the moment we do not have a certain date for the end of this quarantine.
For the LMS staff, all this has resulted in the inability to work from our studio for about a month. We have applied a method of working from home (the so-called Smart Working) which is giving good results but which has inevitably slowed down some aspects of our work.
First of all, the playtest phase since we cannot bring together our groups as we usually do.
Tommaso Battista is continuing his work on the rules of the SG and expansions, which however will be tested as soon as we can assemble our playtest groups. We are studying alternative methods of doing this in case the quarantine continues for another month.
At the moment we do not know if and how much, this problem will delay us for the start of D.E.I. production (which should start between July and August 2020) but we will try to catch up as soon as we have the chance to get back to work at full speed. As usual, We will keep you informed!
And speaking about alternative methods...
D.E.I. on Tabletop Simulator!
Many of you had asked us, and given this period of quarantine, we decided to give you this little gift.
In fact, the Mod of D.E.I. is now available on Tabletop Simulator (TTS) created by the great Ken Cunningham!
D.E.I. on TTS!
With this free Mod, you can play D.E.I. with your friends or other backers, the only thing you will have to buy is TTS which, however, is on sale on Steam these days, and therefore it is an excellent opportunity!
Following this link you will find the Mod:
In addition, you can Join the official LMS TTS Discord channel here to report bugs, provide feedback, and LFG, and eventually chat with us:
https://discord.gg/eyFBM6g
We hope that this little gift will make you spend a some hours of fun in these hard times!
We conclude this update by reassuring you all about our state of health, at the moment we are all safe, fortunately, Rome is not one of the most affected cities but we embrace with love to all those who are suffering from this terrible disease.
We also thank you for all the messages of affection that have come to us, We are really proud to have a community like this!
That's all for Radio Old London today, see you soon!
Old London a month later
about 4 years ago
– Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 01:39:48 AM
Hello Scrappers!
Welcome to the first update after the end of DEI Kickstarter!
What have you done this month? We immediately got to work and are continuing to develop the content that was unlocked during the campaign!
Tommaso (D.E.I. Game Designer) has finished the last refinements of the core rules and has set to work to complete and test the expansions and SGs rules.
At the same time, our art department is working on the components still to be made, and even the sculptors are making the models that are still missing from the appeal (very few in reality).
In this regard, we show you the sculpture of one of the most anticipated models.
Dr. Pierre greet you!
Dr. Pierre, the mysterious leader of the Rad faction, finally has his model! What do you think? We are really excited about the final results for what will surely be one of the most used leaders in D.E.I. games!
Dr. Pierre model details
About timing, in our timeline, the development and pre-production phase of all the D.E.I. it will end in July 2020, the month in which the actual factory production will start, which will last about three months to start shipments around November 2020.
These are our forecasts, but as you know right now, the global crisis due to the Coronavirus Outbreak is putting many sectors in serious difficulty, especially the industrial and logistics sector in China. The positive side is that for the start of the work that will be carried out in China, there are still five months left and so we hope that for that moment, everything has been resolved and that D.E.I. should not be delayed of any kind!
As for the Pledge Manager of D.E.I. given that we had to postpone the second opening for that of Dungeonology (whose production in the factory instead was hit by the Coronavirus crisis) to April 2020 to avoid an overlap between the two PMs, it will probably be open in May 2020.
That's all for today! I'll meet you at the next update in a few weeks!
