This playtest focuses on the Balkans/Danube region of the Roman Empire circa 250 AD. The players are Legates commanding legions in one border province, or the Dux as region leader.
The main activities are operational defence of the borders against barbarian raids, discussing policy options and making tradeoffs in spending team resources, resolving mutinies, and possibly marching on Rome to replace the Emperor. Span of command is 1-3 legions per legate, plus a few vexallations (small detachments). The Dux will command the riverine fleets on the Danube. For an overview of this period, please check out this 15 minute video.
Watch the Skies, the game that introduced a whole new generation to megagames. This is a megagame about international relations, conflict and high level diplomacy. It also involves mysterious and threatening aliens from outer space. The basic premise is that unknown aliens are increasingly visiting earth to abduct, investigate, terrorise and ultimately to subvert and take over or perhaps render earth weak enough to invade. The main part of the game is about how humanity as a collection of political entities decides to react to this.
Most of all it’s a game about humanity coming together to overcome great adversity. Or a more commonly a game about nuking each other back to the stone age.
This game is the perfect introduction if you’ve never played a megagame before, and it’s one of those games that veterans come back to over and over again.
What about teams?
Yes! The teams! We are playing the WTS Lite rules with the Gothenburg Megagames economy module add on. We are playing with an expanded set of teams. These teams are as follows:
The 8 Nations: USA – UK – RUSSIA – CHINA – FRANCE – BRAZIL – INDIA – JAPAN
The Aliens (for experienced players only)
If we reach high enough demand, more playable nations will be unlocked, up to a limit of 20 teams.
You can choose to play with your friends as a team or sign up on your own. Each national team consists of 4 players (no exceptions):
Head of State
Foreign Minister
Head of Defense
Head of Science
If you sign up on your own we will match you with some other amazing people.
Den of Wolves is a game investigating the interactions between politics and survival during a time of crisis. Players represent the vessels in the “Survivor Fleet” – a group of surviving vessels fleeing from a catastrophic attack. The players are attempting to survive with constrained resources and competing priorities. Some players are civilians whilst others are representing government and military elements of the fleet.
The game blends both ‘Political’ (talking and negotiating) and ‘Operational’ (decisions, units, and resources) gameplay. Some roles are exclusively Political, while others have a much greater focus on Operational matters. In general, players should expect a significant amount of resource management and player-to-player negotiation and discussion, with a small amount of unit positioning and combat.
Megagames would not occur without a Facilitation Team to run the game. The diverse group facilitating this running of Den of Wolves come to you from all across the globe and all walks of life. Think of them as Game Masters or Moderators for the Megagame.
New to megagames? Den of Wolves is a great place to start. Visit the Splintered Reality website for more details on the game.
Mars has been colonised, millions of people lived and worked on the Red Planet, then the apocalypse happened. Now a century has passed, the survivors have managed to pull themselves up out of the dirt and are ready to claim their place as the one who gets to call the shots on the Red Planet.
You will be playing those survivors and looking towards a bright future for your home. Will it come to pass? You have the power and potential to determine the outcome. What will you do with it?
Red Planet Rising is inspired by 4x strategy games and adds political/economic elements to the megagame format.
