Tag: Megagame

  • Megagame: Invasion from Mars 09

    Dateline 3127.140-144 General Buck’s Advanced HQ on West Continent, Cydonia The cease-fire holds and the politicals keep on talking, apparently the discussions have been focussed on the acts of terrorism against the DRC and that this was a legitimate casus belli. The NCC and DMC have been taken to task over their refusal (so far)…

  • Megagame: Invasion from Mars 08

    Dateline 3127.135-140 General Buck’s advanced HQ on West Continent, Cydonia The politicians have agreed the cease-fire. The terms are that we need to evacuate the West Continent and the Martians will occupy behind us. A political conference has started on MITLAND island to come to a negotiated end to the war (although this is expected…

  • Megagame: Invasion from Mars 07

    Dateline 3127.130-134 General Buck’s advanced HQ on West Continent, Cydonia It is looking increasingly likely that there will be a cease-fire to allow political negotiations, but this is not yet fully agreed. More negotiations with local commanders about the evacuation of the Infantry Brigade near ENSEMBLE. The MAFC General still cannot give assurances. I order…

  • Megagame: Invasion from Mars 06

    Dateline 3127.125-130 General Buck’s advanced HQ on West Continent, Cydonia Political negotiations are proceeding at a fast pace, with the Earther Attache appearing to be playing the key role of middleman. From reading the news we appear to be coming out well, MAFC are attacked for causing needless civilian deaths and throwing their weight around.…

  • Megagame: Invasion from Mars 05

    Dateline 3127.120-124 General Buck’s advanced HQ on West Continent, Cydonia Having made sure that the INN reporters were fully briefed on what we had offered (and been rebuffed) we then offered to withdraw completely from the West continent and for that part of it held by us on 3127.100 to be declared a DMZ. We…

  • Megagame: Invasion from Mars 04

    Dateline 3127.115-119 General Buck’s advanced HQ on West Continent, Cydonia Following our previously agreed strategy the DRC Government wanted to appear ultra reasonable to external parties (and we’d spent some time working up our DRC Press Briefing and also making sure that we had briefed the INN reporters covering our war. On Cromwell’s Land (the DMC…

  • Megagame: Invasion from Mars 03

    Dateline 3127.110-104 General Buck’s advanced HQ on West Continent, Cydonia The Martians have landed! They made a major landing with most of a GF division just outside OLYMPUS. My shuttle landing reinforcements for OLYMPUS diverted to ENSEMBLE as the nearest friendly location. A major assault on OLYMPUS took place with indiscriminate bombardment by the Martians,…

  • Megagame: Invasion from Mars 02

    Dateline 3127.105-109 General Buck’s advanced HQ on West Continent, Cydonia Operation VALKYRIE has been a major success! A successful seaborne assault by 3rd Tank Brigade has taken DEANVILLE cutting off the line of retreat of an enemy armoured division (although at a cost of 3,000 civilian casualties and ejecting an enemy infantry brigade West along…

  • Megagame: Invasion from Mars 01

    Invasion from Mars is one of Megagame Makers megagames, designed by Jim Wallman and played in Anerley Town Hall in south London. The Invasion from Mars website has the game rules and the map as well as some background info on the downloads page. I played the part of General Stanley Buck, a loyal and competent…

  • CLWG June 2010 Meeting

    What you missed at today’s chestnut lodge meeting (unless you were one of those present) were some good conversations and two games: Come One, Come Eorl – another megagame tryout from Andy Hadley; and D-Day beach landing – an improvised game by Jim Wallman. We started with a chat as Jim, Mukul & I watched…

  • Book Review – Blitzkrieg Legend

    Book Review – Blitzkrieg Legend

    A book review of Bltzkrieg Legend, the German Army official history of the 1940 Campaign in the West

  • Master of Europe 3

    The megagame of the 1813 campaign in Europe was played at Anerley Town Hall on Saturday 7th November 2009. My role was as General Blucher, the senior Prussian Military Commander and also the Commander of the joint Prussian-Russian Army of Silesia. We started off during the ceasefire period of August 1813, with my army in…