Megagame Holidays 2014 : 1942 Campaign: Time flies when you're having.....

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Time flies when you're having.....

After a flurry of blog posts, I have been very busy in the world of work over the last six weeks and that combined with the poor weather has curtailed my attempts to re-paint boards etc. I had also planned to run a game scenario at the Exeter Wargames Show, but that has been sidelined and re-scheduled for July in 'the Shed'. On the plus side I have got a new printer.....Now this might not sound much but for those of you who have ever seen Uncle Tony talking to 'Hal', trying to convince previous marks of printer to disgorge documents at a Mega-game event, this is a small step forward.....

The new HAL

I will be back on task soon...I have been painting btw, but for 28mm Napoleonic. I'm tempted to post a pic of two later of my new happy little Italian Velites of the Guard.

Velites of the Italian Guard - Chassuer btn.

In the background is the Grenadier btn which is in the very early stages of production.

When both btns and a handful of skirmishers are painted, I will finish the basing...

Of course, I have a bucketload of WW2 stuff to do to...ignore the giant duck btw....

5 comments:

warpaintjj23 May 2012 at 21:26
Go on then...dare you!
looking forward to it.
cheers
warpaintjj
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Anonymous28 May 2012 at 07:22
Hi Dom
re your blog

"I had also planned to run a game scenario at the Wargames, but that has been sidelined and re-scheduled for July in 'the Shed'."

Was/is that an Ardennes (Megagame) scenario?
And what/where is "Wargames"?

Brendan

ps Your 28mm stuff looks v. good.
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Dom28 May 2012 at 07:43
It was the Exeter Wargames show...just missed out those two words...will sort that in a minute.

The scenario was going to be based around the 'Cobra' operation, I'm not sure what we will play test in the few weeks, but something between June and Sept '44.

Thank you for your PS. It's the 6th or 7th Italian btn I have painted now so I so have it weighed off, but the novelty of painting masses of white unifotms has worn off!!
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Anonymous28 May 2012 at 08:17
Hope you don't forget your airborne FOOs for your testgame!?!?!?!?

Brendan
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Dom28 May 2012 at 08:27
Lets hope the weather is not heavily overcast....
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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