"Longest campaign game?" Topic

What's the longest campaign (based on length of time) in which you've participated?

For this poll, online or Games Workshop "world wide" games don't count.

A. 1 day
B. 1 weekend
C. ???

Prompted by this one-day Snappy Nappy campaign: TMP link

Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon – probably about 50 hours

Weekly for months and months for a multi-player Advanced Heroquest Campaign with a variable number of players always at least 4 and as many as 7 I think.

Email campaign for Battle of Britain, took about 6 months. I also did a 1066 AD campaign based off of one I saw in Wargames Illustrated (I think). It was also by email and generated a number of battles, two of which occurred on the last turn and determined the winner. Those two battles were fought out on the table top. This campaign took about 9 months.

Mine have never lasted for more than a couple of sessions.

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I've had much more luck with RPG campaigns of 20+ sessions.

Several months for a PBEM Napoleonic campaign (and probably the most satisfying campaign experience ever!); not quite as long for a Berthier- based Russo- Japanese War campaign which was run with weekly gaming sessions.

We were doing a colonial campaign when I left town. We had monthly games, and were about a year and a half into it. I don't know how much longer it went on.

Grelber

Many years for a multiplayer, multinational PBM Napoleonic themed "imaginations' campaign, including navies. 4 moves a year was about typical by the time the battles were fought out!fought out, but great fun!

Three months but that was with one session a month.

Several years of Kingmaker based WoTR campaign. The historical research and character (family heraldry) background easily matched "books" of research. Many tabletop 25mm battles, specialized terrain construction. full gamer "parliaments" held following historical format and traditions. Had 46 gamer/ players involved with monthly written turns. Full medieval trading desk, european affairs interaction, Scots, French, Irish expansion regions added to the original Kingmaker game (not the AH version), church players, royal characters…… and the painted armies with historical banners and livery. Those was the days of gaming. Alas… another time, before the use of computers and email. If you were involved, you remember that campaign back in the late 1970's.

John aka COAT #1 a big thank you, I still remember my part as COAT #2 (Creator of All Things #2).

Maybe 6 weeks at two three hour sessions per week back in the 70's when I had time and real life didn't get in the way so much.

14 months of a House Divided Campaign using Volley and Bayonet for Battles. It was multiple blind with weekly email turns

Over a year at my home, with guys coming over every weekend, sometimes over night. We played on a 16 X 7 feet table with a parallel side table of 2.5 X 14 feet, bridged in two places.
WWII Germans defending against Soviets, including thousands of troops, hundreds of vehicles, and about 100 aircraft, all in 1/72 / 1/87 scale.

Not fewer than four people per week and as many as 12, but usually 6-8 people.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

I played a few postal campaigns back in the day, the longest was one covering the entire Napoleonic Wars which I played for seven years(!)

For tabletop campaigns, I generally find the players patience tolerance is about five battles, so thee days I tend to historical linked scenario campaigns. The last one was WW1, 5 battles spread out over a couple of months and I've currently got both a Star Wars (3 battles so far) and another WW1 one covering the Lodz campaign which has just started.

I played in a D&D campaign for nearly 20 years – it petered out when the DM moved away or we'd still be at it I suspect…

Colonial world wide campaign.using game Pax Britannica as Strategic moves…lasted 8 years..

Other than the ‘Austerlitz' PBM Napoleonic strategy game, I can think of only two that have run to a successful conclusion over any length of time – the Sudan set in 1885, with 4 players, which ran for 15 turns over 9 months and generated 5 tabletop battles, and a larger multi-player campaign set in medieval Greece at the time of the Catalan Vengeance – both great fun thanks to the active participation of all involved.

These days, the smaller more structured campaigns – such as the Chain of Command "Pint Sized Campaigns" for WW2 have revived our interest in campaigns – typically 6-8 linked games in which the outcome of one has an effect on subsequent actions.

I'm now working on a similar format for a campaign set in the Indian Mutiny, using the campaign generator rules written for Sharp Practice.

Our local group played a "The Sun Never Sets" campaign out of the old Courier magazine that went over a year in real time.

I ran a VSF campaign that lasted nine years, 7 years of player time which took us nine years to play, I drew up an entire continent and we even had a webpage that was hosted through a private server for the players. We maxed out at 11 players with a core group of eight. The campaign ended when there were a couple of players passing away and others moved for work.

I still have thousands of figures from it and two 28mm fleets of VSF ships as well as a couple of dirigibles and dozens of landships.

Better part of two years for our last two ACW campaigns – and this with monthly moves!

Next goal is for a SYW Imaginations campaign

Several months and several battles. SCW run by Jack Radey, I had the CCTV. It was a close run thing

1 year. Napoleonic with monthly moves on paper, battles fought on the table.

My CY6 group has played through most of the official scenario books. A few of them we played as campaigns, tracking the careers (and frequent deaths) of personal pilots; averaging 2 games a month, we get through a campaign in roughly 6-12 months. We played two of the books (Days of Glory and Over the Channel) as one big 43-game campaign, which took nearly two years.

- Ix

5 years and going strong!

Joe