On the eve of Wednesday, the 8th of May, we found that only 25 people had registered for the game. This is far below the minimum number of participants required for the game, which needs at least some 45 participants (We have played it in 2012 with 48 participants). Had it been more, say 40, we would simply have checked during the week in Braunfels, as it is not uncommon that people register with us during the week.

However, 25 was really too few to make a game with. We have checked whether a smaller version would be possible: most of you registered for the southern theater (HGR South, Kiev Military District and Odessa Military District).

In this setting we would have an operational game for about 19 players and umpires. However, it would not be a megagame. The upper levels of command (OKW/OKH/OKL and Stavka) would have nothing to decide. There would be no decisions to make how to divide the resources and the logistics part of the game would not make sense, as there would be no doubts. 

Because of these reasons, we have decided to cancel the game. Since it really surprised us that so few registered and even no one did after the last issue of the Manoever Kritik in which both the GHS Chairman and the article by Thomas Scheben on our megame of last March in Nijmegen, De Bello Gallico, mentioned Clash of Titans V: Operation Barbarossa.

This also happened in 2016 when we offered Sengoku. We then held an inquiry during the Hexacon of 2016 and checked which megagame would be to the liking of the visitors of the Hexacon. We will do so again upcoming Hexacon and one of the choices will be to offer Clash of Titans again but we would announce it now with more lead time: it may simply be that people did not know or realize that we were offering this game. We are open to suggestions how we can improve our and your response.

 Best regards,

 Marc & Marcel

The board of Stg. Megagames NL.