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ALLIANCE: The Ultimate World Leader Political Science MegaGame

ALLIANCE: The Ultimate World Leader Political Science MegaGame

2015·Shaun D McMillan

3 - 72 players
180 - 240 min

From BoardGameGeek

Designed by professional graphic designer, illustrator, and game designer, Shaun D. McMillan, ALLIANCE can be played by as few as 3 players or as many as 100. Easily expandable, it can be played with small groups, entire classrooms, or large combined groups. Players work together to lead their nation-teams towards peace using economic strategies, defensive strategies, negotiations, and creative technologies based on each player's endless imagination. They may collaborate, compete, collude, coerce, negotiate, and create businesses, scientific inventions, and new technologies to solve all the world's crises to ultimately achieve the epic win, world peace. ALLIANCE is a megagame. Megagames are played by thirty plus players who all play different roles on different nation-teams simultaneously through a series of timed game days. Through a combination of table top RPG mechanics, board game mechanics, war game mechanics, and live action roleplay, players become world leaders of various different nation-teams and try to achieve world peace together. Though there is competition, in the end they all win together or they all lose together. ALLIANCE has been played all over the world including Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, and in multiple states of America including Houston, New York, Los Angeles, and Milwaukee by combinations of adults, college students, high schoolers, and middle schoolers in multiple languages. It has also been through multiple iterations. In 2016 it was first played at Gen Con, and the sequel, ALLIANCE Last Days was played by 100 players at Gen Con in 2017. In 2025 ALLIANCE will feature the newest version of the game as it comes upon its 10th year anniversary. The game is available at MyMegagame.com -description from the designer

ALLIANCE: The Ultimate World Leader Political Science MegaGame

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How to play ALLIANCE18:15

How to play ALLIANCE

Shaun McMillan

Shaun McMillan

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37 University Students play ALLIANCE The Ultimate Political Science Megagame at Dartmouth College22:26

37 University Students play ALLIANCE The Ultimate Political Science Megagame at Dartmouth College

Best Class Ever

Best Class Ever

Which ALLIANCE: The Ultimate World Leader Political Science MegaGame video should I watch?

ALLIANCE: The Ultimate World Leader Political Science MegaGame has 4 videos from 2 creators: 1 how-to-play guide, 2 playthroughs and 1 other video. They date from 2023 to July 2025.

To learn the rules, start with "How to play ALLIANCE" by Shaun McMillan, which runs 18 min.

To see it played, watch "37 University Students play ALLIANCE The Ultimate Political Science Megagame at Dartmouth College" by Best Class Ever, one of 2 playthroughs.

If you like it, try The Hunters A.D. 2114, HeroQuest Advanced Quest, Magic Mountain or Dungeon Saga: Dwarf King's Quest, which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2025.

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37 University Students play ALLIANCE The Ultimate Political Science Megagame at Dartmouth CollegePlaythrough22:26

37 University Students play ALLIANCE The Ultimate Political Science Megagame at Dartmouth College

Best Class Ever

Best Class Ever

Trailer for ALLIANCE Gen Con 20251:36

Trailer for ALLIANCE Gen Con 2025

Best Class Ever

Best Class Ever

How to play ALLIANCEHow to play18:15

How to play ALLIANCE

Shaun McMillan

Shaun McMillan

60+ Students play the gamePlaythrough2:56

60+ Students play the game

Shaun McMillan

Shaun McMillan

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About ALLIANCE: The Ultimate World Leader Political Science MegaGame

From BoardGameGeek:

Designed by professional graphic designer, illustrator, and game designer, Shaun D. McMillan, ALLIANCE can be played by as few as 3 players or as many as 100. Easily expandable, it can be played with small groups, entire classrooms, or large combined groups. Players work together to lead their nation-teams towards peace using economic strategies, defensive strategies, negotiations, and creative technologies based on each player's endless imagination. They may collaborate, compete, collude, coerce, negotiate, and create businesses, scientific inventions, and new technologies to solve all the world's crises to ultimately achieve the epic win, world peace. ALLIANCE is a megagame. Megagames are played by thirty plus players who all play different roles on different nation-teams simultaneously through a series of timed game days. Through a combination of table top RPG mechanics, board game mechanics, war game mechanics, and live action roleplay, players become world leaders of various different nation-teams and try to achieve world peace together. Though there is competition, in the end they all win together or they all lose together. ALLIANCE has been played all over the world including Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, and in multiple states of America including Houston, New York, Los Angeles, and Milwaukee by combinations of adults, college students, high schoolers, and middle schoolers in multiple languages. It has also been through multiple iterations. In 2016 it was first played at Gen Con, and the sequel, ALLIANCE Last Days was played by 100 players at Gen Con in 2017. In 2025 ALLIANCE will feature the newest version of the game as it comes upon its 10th year anniversary. The game is available at MyMegagame.com -description from the designer

Designer

Shaun D McMillan

Publisher

Self-published

Categories

EducationalPolitical

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Cooperative GameRole PlayingSimulationTeam-Based Game
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