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  • Megagame Costs – Worked Example

    Megagame Costs – Worked Example

    I’ve just run my first megagame, and there aren’t many places that show you how much a megagame costs to run. Most megagames are run by enthusiasts, and the costs seem to vary wildly from speaking to game runners. So I thought I’d keep some notes for my first megagame “Lit By Another Sun” which…

  • Lit By Another Sun – Tickets on Sale now

    Lit By Another Sun – Tickets on Sale now

    You can now get Lit By Another Sun tickets from Ticket Tailor. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/truenorthmegagames/1834618 Lit By Another Sun A megagame of space colonists and murky factions A realistic Sci-Fi game about establishing a new human Colony in the 23rd century. Inspired by The Expanse, Battlestar Galactica, and a lifetime of reading and watching SF. The game…

  • By the Grace of God [Megagame]

    By the Grace of God [Megagame]

    Today I played David Leslie, Admiral of the Scots Navy in By the Grace of God, a Megagame of the period at the end of the first of the civil wars in the 1640s. The game started in the Autumn of 1646 with the Covenanters in control of King Charles I, by the Grace of…

  • Washington Conference Megagame Newspaper Reports

    Washington Conference Megagame Newspaper Reports

    For his 70th birthday Dave Boundy decided to run his Washington Conference Megagame again. It’s at least the fourth time Washington Conference has been run as a Megagame. I’ve previously played as a Japanese Admiral, although this time I was one of the press team. Also, unlike recent megagames the entire cast list were veteran…

  • Blood and Thunder 4 – a Megagame of Pirates

    Blood and Thunder 4 – a Megagame of Pirates

    Alexander and I played arms merchants in the Blood and Thunder 4 pirate megagame on Saturday. It was mostly a fun game, although there were a couple of sticky points for us as merchants. I was cast as Theophilus Blodwell, a Glaswegian on the run from the British Authorities. As well as being an arms…

  • Divided Land – Being a Terrorist in a Megagame

    I played the leader of a terrorist organisation in the Divided Land megagame. Divided Land was about the situation in Palestine in 1947, we played from March through to an agreement on partition in August 1947. We then made plans on what would happen when the agreement came into force at 00:01 on 1st January…

  • Undeniable Victory – offside report [Megagame]

    Undeniable Victory – offside report [Megagame]

    Today I played in Undeniable Victory, Ben Moore’s megagame of the Iran Iraq War. I was an Iranian Radical and a member of the Council, starting off as the Procurement Minister responsible for buying military kit. Undeniable Victory I was a late entrant to Undeniable Victory, getting a place because someone else couldn’t make it.…

  • UNSOC Playtest After Action Report

    UNSOC Playtest After Action Report

    UNSOC = Urban Nightmare: State of Chaos. UNSOC is Jim Wallman’s latest evolution of the megagame. After the 300 player Watch the Skies the next step was multiple simultaneous and linked megagames. I blogged about Urban Nightmare during its first run. I played as the emergency services with a friend. UNSOC is multiple cities in…

  • Logistics of Megagames

    Logistics of Megagames

    Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics Continuing the theme of advice for new megagamers I’m going to talk about the logistics of playing in Megagame Makers style megagame (like Watch the Skies). This is player logistics though, not in game logistics (see the military player advice for that). Logistics of Megagames Megagames are juggernauts. Once they…

  • Objectives – Megagame advice

    Objectives – Megagame advice

    Objectives form the basis of game play in megagames. I’d like to start here by reminding you of three things: The British Army’s master principle of war; Selection and maintenance of the aim is the master principle of war Clausewitz‘s most cited quote; War is the continuation of politics by other means the British Olympic…

  • New Megagamer Advice

    New Megagamer Advice

    Advice for a new megagamer on how to get the best experience from a Megagame Makers megagame. Also handy for the experienced megagamer

  • Watch the Skies 3

    Last Saturday I was control for East Asia for Watch the Skies 3. This picked up where Watch the Skies 2 left off, with some modifications to rules and briefings etc to make it flow much better. There were a number of obvious improvements, the media being a prime example. Media Coverage There were more journalists…