A little over four years ago today, on the 10th October 2015, in Swindon Village Hall in Cheltenham, I achieved two major megagame "firsts". I simultaneously attended my first megagame and ran my first megagame. The game was, unsurprisingly, 'Watch The Skies!' (back then, still in more or less its first incarnation as designed by Jim Wallman in 2014). At the time it just seemed like something that would be fun to do - a diversion, an experiment maybe. It wasn't until afterwar

320BCE, somewhere near the Egyptian coast. A cluster of silhouettes appear in the moonlight, walking over the crest a large sand dune. A thousand miles behind them, the largest empire in history tears itself apart – but they pay it no attention. Their sole concern is reaching the small fishing boat they've just spied on the shore. A mercenary hops off the boat, checks the horizon for any unexpected movements, then greets the figures, quietly. Taking his fee, he walks off into