Organiser: Megagame Makers
Designer: Johan Olofsson, Odd-Helge Gravalid

The Thirty Years’ War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. One of the most destructive conflicts in human history, it resulted in eight million fatalities not only from military engagements but also from violence, famine and plague.

The war was preceded by the election of the new Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, who tried to impose religious uniformity on his domains, forcing Roman Catholicism on its peoples. The northern Protestant states, angered by the violation of their rights to choose, which been granted in the Peace of Augsburg, banded together to form the Protestant Union.

These events caused widespread fears throughout northern and central Europe…