Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group
Recently I have been working on several game ideas based on my interest in The Wars of the Roses. It has something to do with being semi-retired. Why a boardgame? This is prototype for a boardgame about The Wars of the Roses. And at this point should mention Kingmaker, both the 1974 and 2023 versions, […]
The game is based on the plot of the Neville Brothers against king Edward IV who has fallen under the spell of the Woodville family, rather than the most powerful brother: the Earl of Warwick (aka the Kingmaker). While Warwick thought he had Edward under his control after bringing him the crown in 1461, the […]
At university I wrote an essay about the Silver Bullion crisis in 17th Century Spain. As I did my research I kept on finding yet another fact or event that intrigued me. So I started going back through my “set” books to yet another earlier chapter. Eventually I found myself reading about Ferdinand and Isabella […]
In Scotland the people that run megagames are very fond of lunch breaks, and I thought that I could lean into this and do a two part megagame that reprises two games I’ve previously run at CLWG with a bit of simplification to help them scale up. Bonnie Dundee was run as the highland campaigns […]
As part of a few days in Tours, I not only visited the Musée des Blindés in Saumur (well worth a visit; like in the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in Le Bourget, all the weird things the French ever built are well represented), but I also managed to catch the first half of […]
I’ve been megagaming now for nearly nine years and a wargamer in some form or another for over 25, since I participated in a Warhammer club at school, where I played Space Marines. I have recently started to develop a megagame of my own that I plan to run next year (2027) and it has […]
Previously I had done a session Operation Rupert and other hidden scenarios. This session I had deliberately kept under wraps beforehand. Our pool of players is too smart and if they had read up on the true battle beforehand there would not have been much of a game to play. This battle took place in […]
onside report by Dave Boundy Back in May, I played an online game with some people in Philadephia. It was a playtest of a Megagame that they planned to put on at Gen Con 2025. The game was based on the negotiations for Roosevelt’s “New Deal” – the package of legislation intended to revitalise the […]
onside report by Dave Boundy Finding ourselves with time to spare at the October games weekend(as a game had been rescheduled), I organised an exercise to say which one game we would each like to develop or have developed that was entirely new, with no previous work on the topic. My intention was then to […]
Jim brought along a board game to test. Apparently, it is near to release and we were asked to test it for inconsistencies, typos, spelling mistakes and anything that didn’t make sense. We were asked to play the game as if we had just bought it, which essentially meant that Jim would give no help, […]