Megagame Holidays 2014 : 1942 Campaign: 2011

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Lies, Damned Lies and Armour values!

There have been a series of posts on Domgaming about the various stats that we use. They are a derivative of another 1/300th system. Am casting around for a new way of calculating and listing stats. At the end of the day, it's a highly subjective area, but any pearls of wisdom and thoughts are gratefully received.

Saturday, 26 February 2011

2013 The Bulge is Back

Am also planning the 2013 game now, dates and details will not be ready until next year but will try and post some of the new ideas for this game

2012 Western Desert '42

Western Desert '42 will take start Saturday 11th Feb, with play starting on Saturday evening. It will run until Friday evening of 17th Feb 2012. Departure from the hotel will be on Saturday 18th February 2012. Price will be £400 for the week (7 nights at hotel). Any additional nights will cost £45.

What does it cost and where are these held

The megagames holidays are week long events, the cost for 2014 will be £400.

The price of the holiday covers accommodation and meals from the Saturday to the following Saturday morning inclusive, meals being breakfast lunch, and a three course evening meal. If you wish to arrive a day earlier of stay an extra couple of days there is a daily surcharge which is currently £40.

The dates for the game are as follows

Arrive Saturday 19th Jan 2013

Play commences on Sunday 20th through to Friday 25th.

Depart hotel Saturday 26th Jan

On the wargames front figures, terrain dice and a copy of rules system are included in the price. All you have to bring is your beer money ;)

The megagame events are held at the Membly Hall Hotel in Falmouth (United Kingdom) http://www.memblyhallhotel.co.uk/

Combat Command Rules system

We use our own rules system which is D10 based. This evolved from the Spearhead system which we used for the first two games, but it soon became apparent that Spearhead worked well for up to a Division a side, but these games saw Corps and Army sized formations on one table (and in some games 12 tables were in play), so we begin to write a system that could cope with these numbers, allowed for some reconnaissance of the battle field and with the integration of higher level air and naval assets as scenario’s dictated. It’s not a finished product yet, but each year it has been rigorously tested. New ideas often arise out of each megagame, this year was no exception. The discussion for this is currently taking place on the domgaming site. To join that, email me at domf2002@yahoo.com