Rear Guard Action

All kinds of good news on megagames these days. Of course I had a good demo of the Monsters game Friday a week ago (will provide more info l...

Two weeks ago I joined in for Crisis in Binni , the megagame about humanitarian intervention in a failing African state (think of Somalia ...

Jim gave me a set of maps to take with me to the Netherlands: player and umpire maps for Master of Europe . The game is on for June 22nd in...

The Crisis in Binni game materials. Found them yesterday evening returning home after a few days. Will provide for some interesting reading...

In my continuing quest to prepare for my role as commander of the U.S. contingent in a humanitarian operation , I have read Black Hawk Down...

In my preparation for megagame Crisis in Binni , I have read a few books and watched the inevitable Black Hawk Down . There's some inter...

The early 1990s were an incredibly hopeful time for keen young adults like me. The Berlin wall had fallen, the Soviet Union collapsed and th...

For your interest, my friends and supporters of Megagame Makers will be putting on half a dozen games in the UK this year, both in London an...

Megagame Makers have set their programme for 2013. If you haven't played in a megagame yet, you should definitely try it. These are al...

Last Saturday I took part in Lost Youth, the megagame on the Vietnam War designed by Jim Wallman. It was a small episode set during the ear...

" I'll be damned if I permit the United States Army, its institutions, its doctrine, and its traditions to be destroyed just to win...

The good news yesterday was that I received my briefings in the mail for Lost Youth, the Vietnam megagame next Saturday. Although the exa...

I'm using this space to plug the megagames organised by Megagame Makers in the UK the coming months. In the past 18 years I've play...

My game designing hero is Jim Wallman, a friendly guy from South London with a warped mind and the English sense of humour. He has a good gr...