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MeG 2020\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to 2020 – a huge year for MeG and its related rule system within the CCC (Colour Command & Combat) family. <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year we: <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
  1. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tare publishing new compendium edition at Salute in April (it will be for sale with a\nvery attractive pre-order deal Dec 1) with Maximus, Magna and Pacto,\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>
  2. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlaunch our UltraCast <\/strong>plastic 15mm ancients figure range also at Salute,\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>
  3. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlaunch new CCC game materials to make our games look superb,\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>
  4. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\thave our 4 major championships around the world with me attending all four,\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>
  5. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\thave our first Pacto and Magna competitions (Historicon2020 <\/strong>will feature Pacto<\/strong>)\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>
  6. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpublishing the Renaissance (Q4) and WW2 versions (Q3) of the CCC game.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>
  7. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpublishing the first skirmish versions of rules with Invasion Earth (Q2) and men of\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSteel (Q4)\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The new MeG Compendium <\/strong>will be a 240-page hardback book with a new look and 20 world class\npieces of artwork by Guiseppe Rava. It will integrate all clarifications and include a more extensive\nset of diagrams and will combine Maximus, Magna and Pacto in a single volume. <\/strong>The new book will\nbe printed, marketed and distributed by PSC and will be fixed for 5+ years. The book is currently\nbeing set out with a new artwork design. It is looking really good. Her is a taste of what is to come.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The PSC agreement changes everything in terms of the rules and growth of the player base. We\nhave before us the opportunity to grow a large international community and enjoy it. My\ndevelopment time will now move to developing WW2 rules, Invasion Earth and ReG. <\/strong>So I won\u2019t be\nchanging MeG, I\u2019ll just be enjoying playing it while working on other projects.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We want to catch any final changes now prior to print. Over the last few months the team has\nreviewed everything and found that the rules were near optimised on 1\/1\/2019. Most new ideas\nhave been rejected. We are putting in changes for fixes requested from players for cheesy moves\nand unclear areas. There is only 1 new rule from me, 1 QRS tweak for balance and 1 material new\ninsight on troops about chariots. Job done and very proud of what we have created. Thank you to\nthe 500+ players who have contributed encouragement and ideas.\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So 2020 is essentially very much 2019 <\/strong>So you can start playing 2020 in compendium form here are\nthe changes with their rationale in italics <\/em>and we are issuing our QRS, lists, Army Builder etc. before\nDec 1 so we can all switch over for the complete year ahead.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    RULE ADDITION FROM ME
    \n<\/strong>PBS variety improved. <\/strong>By adding 1 card for all armies and playing 6, with the first being for who\ngets to choose territory type from the options within the defenders army list, we will get a the\nfill variety. All this does is provide more variety and a nicer narrative. You choose to defend.\nYour opponent can play a Red card to try to take control of where he invades your nation if it\nwins, and gets to choose to invade your coastal area say when you would prefer your mountain\narea. We have found this to add another great decision and choice to the mini-game with no\ndownside at all. It also makes it a little riskier to try to save all good cards for scouting as you\nfeel pressured at times to play a good colour as you first card. SAFE WIN.\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    QRS TWEAK FOR BALANCE
    \n<\/strong>Prompting through fire more difficult<\/strong>. This one I nearly did in 2019 but didn\u2019t want to\novershoot. Now 1BW = Yellow to recover, 2BW = Red to recover, 3BW = impossible to recover.\nRest as is. This was something I nearly implemented in 2019 and wanted to test the half way\nposition in the year. Biggest observation in 2018 was that bow armies were hard to play and we\nimproved them then. Player feedback is that horse archer armies are still too difficult to play vs.\nfoot armies and that large loose order foot bow armies are not viable at all. The aim of this is to\nbalance both of those issues and make them viable choices for players WITHOUT making horse\narcher armies easy.\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    RULE FIXES FOR ISSUES RAISED BY PLAYERS IN 2019\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n