What is a Megagame?

We now give megagames the following formal definition:

"A Megagame is a multi-player historical simulation game, in which the participants are organised into teams, and those teams into an hierarchy of teams".

This is a rather dull description for what is a very challenging, interesting, and fun activity. Teams of players take on specific roles - for example as a military heaquarters, or a national government, and they interact with other teams representing their opponents or allies.

What is Involved?
(in playing a megagame)

Our megagames are played at a variety of venues, usually around the SE of England .

Generally, the games start around 9 in the morning, and we go on to about 6 in the afternoon. At the end there is a short debriefing, and usually a longer debrief in a local pub afterwards.

There is a charge to participants, because of the large cost involved in hiring a venue, preparing game materials, posting out etc etc. None of us can afford to pay for all this ourselves. At the moment, a typical game will cost around £20 for a player, or if you volunteer to 'umpire' (or 'referee' or 'control' or whatever you want to call it) the fee is usually less, around £10.   For prices click the 'booking' button on the left.

(There are also normally reductions for the unwaged and discounts for groups)

When you contact us expressing interest in a game (and in some cases expressing interest in a specific team, role, level, or type of role), we make a note of that interest, and then a couple of months before the game we send you a letter with details of the cost, and a return slip.
Usually, we ask for game fee 'up front' because we have to spend on game materials, hall hire etc before the game.
Part of Operation Market Garden 60th Anniversary megagame held in Nijmegen in 2004

Once you send in your return slip (and game fee), we send out the game briefing materials, typically a booklet with the basic information you need to play the game, and usually a historical brief for the background to the conflict. Also a personal and/or team briefing, and details of the other people on your team. You also get other joining instructions detailing exactly when and where to turn up for the game.

Once you have this, all you need to do is turn up and play!

To be kept informed of megagames coming up all you need to do is to register your interest on the database
- best of all, registration is completely free! Click on the register button to add your details to the database