Weekender XLBS: Could You Create An Epic Mega Game?
June 5, 2016 by dignity
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Morning all!
Bright awake since 5.28am. It’s great to have a new puppy..
Happy Sunday!
I used to work at a game store that hosted, once a year, a weekend of WWII Microarmour from GHQ. This was set up and played on four tables linked together covering 5′ by 32′. This was run by a club, and they reserved the minis area for the weekend. They started playing on Friday morning through Sunday afternoon only stopping when the store was closed.
Happy Sunday!
Happy (Early) Sunday!!
I’m glad you’re giving Hoard a boost; looks a fun little KS that’s been ticking on…
Warren, Bren – the base game you need isn’t Risk, it’s Diplomacy. Now -take that and add a fog of war aspect…?
My idea? A giant Frostgrave table with continuous play – groups enter various points and can wander around finding artifacts/treasures that they can immediately make use of, set-up camp to rest-up or wander back to the inn/off-board camp to cash in what they’ve got to get more forces/resources etc. Meanwhile, different parts of Frostgrave are opening up slowly throughout the game as the ice melts, or as a group set-up camp to dig their way (or let’s be honest – more ikely blast/melt their way) into an interestin structure. They’ll need to post guards in case someone else creeps up… Read more »
Please reassure me that Peter Molyneux has nothing to do with Fable Fortune? (Godus anyone?)
Hang-on… is this pay-to-win collecting virtual cards? Hmmm… not so sure….
‘The Great War’ board game by PSC would be rather fitting for a Mega Game. With the Centenniary of the Battle of the Somme imminent..rather fitting indeed!
I really like both @lloyd ‘s V1/V2/V3 idea and @johnlyons ‘ Kursk idea. They both sound like awesome fun!
Market garden lends itself to a mega game. Just an idea
Ben the game of thrones idea could be based around the board game by fantasy flight just enlarge it. But the basics of the game could be used.
Not sure if this might help, but have you heard of Wargame Developments, http://www.wargame developments.org They have been creating ‘mega’ style games for many years and have a wealth of experience as well as material to peruse on the subject, such as their popular ‘matrix games’ (nothing to do with the film!) Their forte is producing multi player participation games, trying to create an atmosphere ‘believable’ to the setting, rather than complex rules sets to ‘simulate’ the realism. Their games help to create much narrative and post action dialogue, as alluded to by Warren.
PS, sorry, I messed up on the link: http://www.wargame developments.org
Bloody f*”%$&ing autotext f*$k off!!!!
http://www.wargamedevelopments.org
Happy Sunday, well that was carnage. It’s interesting to see the group dynamic at work when you guys started to talk about Mega games. I was thinking this week about it and actually ended up on a similar path as Warren with an enlarged version of the board game Escape From Colditz. Some great possibilities for scenery and easily scaled up or down to meet player numbers as required.
the game Ben describes is Diplomacy, its been played globally for years, from written letters sent round the world to faction leaders and gm to now in the digital age facebook groups, private messages, emails and voip calls, there are many different versions covering all eras and genres, extremely simple rules plenty of places to grab the free versions. i played in a game of thrones game last year with a bunch of ppl from facebook id never met, i played house tully, many ravens were sent, many alliances were made and broken, marriages, births, deaths, and most of all… Read more »
happy sunday and why there was no mention about preacher or outcast series? both based on fantastic comics?
I’d rather play the Marvel Hydra base version with Captain America personally. Sorry @Warzan 😛
John Sean Bean did die in one episode but it was a fake death so does it count?
Ben the game you’re thinking of exists in a modern sense called “Watch the Skies” where I’ve played the Russian Leader who launched Nukes before shutting them down for a PR boost.
http://www.megagame-makers.org.uk/megagamet-wts.htm
@elessar2590 I was the Prime Minister of Russia at the ‘Watch the Skies’ megagame on Sunday at the UK Games Expo. It was awesome fun!
Watch the Skies is the type of thing I think of when I hear ‘megagame’, rather than just a bigger version of a game.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/welcome-to-the-world-of-megagames-300-players-take-part-in-watch-the-skies-board-game-10213384.html
Okay so Ben’s game really intrigues me… but I think that a day is the wrong setting for it. So imagine you guys are going to this convention, right? Everyone knows everyone else in a small circle say something from some website, say from some forum? I don’t now Beastly mess of a place 😉 but this is small compared to the convention, like say ComicCon or something that is ungodly huge. Moves can only be done every hour, so you have time to talk and such, but there is a time limit on things. So there are ‘mechanics’ to… Read more »
@elessar2590, No it doesn’t. Besides, in the book series, Sharpe nearly dies at least once or twice a book. My mega games is 1) (if I had all my AVP KS stuff, But NO Predators would be used!!), doing the search and battle of Hadley’s Hope Colony from the movie Aliens. I have run it once years ago as an rpg, but doing it as a miniature game, it would be more interesting. Game 2) massive game of MERCs. and MERCs Recon. Team 1 has all 10 mercs from their faction on the table, their objective is to secure entrance… Read more »
The true Deathwatch ‘Overkill’ So my original idea for a mega game is this. So imagine a 5,000 point genestealer cult army, just colossal. Now imagine a twelve by six foot (3.65 meters by 1.82 meters) table with just the most dense terrain imaginable. And this game goes length ways. The Deathwatch is goal is to get to the otherside, last three turns while they send the planetary distress signal. Now this it a two player mega game. So the Genestealer player sets up first, they get to place down 1/3 rd of ther army in the last 3 ft,… Read more »
I’d do a massive game of…my own game lol. I’d have it based around a micro-planet and actually realise the entire thing and have the battle based around some rare precious mineral that all the factions want. I still wonder how I could realise upsidedown warfare (due to the weird physics ect)
I’ve played a Megagame like Ben has described, it was the one based on XCOM, heres a video of one I havent been to to show how it sort of works
https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/susd-play-megagame/
I’m with Ben on what a mega game is. Watched this video a while back, the people that run this particular mega game run lots of offer different themed events through out the year – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1090049874342797/
Round of applause for that T-Rex! Oh, sorry.
@johnlyons If you have access to a 3D printer you might try checking out something like this http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:129789 for your cosplay.