What is the king is dead?

So, I played in another big cool thing, so I figured I'd write another effortpost about how big and cool it was. This time, the thing I played in was a game called "The King is Dead" - a Kriegspiel/Cataphract type game where a medieval succession dispute was handled using a real-time operations simulation engine where every single decision-maker was played by a human. 

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