A new organisation, Scottish Historical Games Society, has been formed with a remit to support, encourage, publicise and develop historical gaming across Scotland. Support will be available to clubs, shows, tournaments and individuals across Scotland from gamers with extensive experience within the hobby.

The new group aim to liaise with any Scottish based gaming or other organisations to raise the profile of historical gaming within Scotland.

We at the British Historical Games Society think this is all a great idea,as is anything that encourages more gaming throughout Great Britain, and we'll look to help the SHGS wherever we can.

SHGS organisers include:

Hunter Hope

Alan Cutner

Mike Kemp

George Dick

They all welcome feedback, suggestions and questions, so please email them at ScottishHGS@gmail.com.

Cool terrain is a big part of the appeal of Flames of War and Bolt Action, and the BHGS have always been committed to providing high quality and interesting terrain layouts on all of our FoW tables at Britcon (and we are for BA too). 

Unfortunately the Sneaky Gitz Club are no longer playing FoW, so their terrain from a few years ago is no longer available however we recognise that many players will have invested a great deal of time and effort in developing their own terrain and even entire "model-railway-quality" battle-boards and would love the opportunity to share their handiwork with a wider audience. To accommodate this at Britcon 2013 we will be inviting players (and clubs) to provide one or more table's-worth of terrain to be used in the competition. 

If you are entering the Britcon FoW or Bolt Action Tournaments and are able to provide a "table of terrain" we would therefore love to accommodate you - and we are prepared to put our money where our mouths are as well: 

Players who are able to provide a table-full of terrain (or even better, a terrain table!) will be offered a special discounted entry rate in the form of a cash-equivalent voucher to spend with our Traders at the Britcon Trade Show. 

Clubs who have several members entering the competitions can also club together (see what we did there?) and submit a table-full of terrain to qualify for their own Trader Voucher. 

If you are the proud owner of a really, really cool pre-made table that you'd like to bring along and show off, but it's a bit difficult to fit in the back of your sisters Mini Metro please get in touch and we can discuss subsidising your petrol/travel costs as well 

We will also be running a "Best Terrain" competition across the Flames of War and Bolt Action Tournaments, in which all the players at Britcon will get the chance to vote on the Best Table in Show - and the winner will get a hefty prize, as well as the love and gratitude of all their fellow players !

Obviously we can only accept one table for every two players, so not everyone will be able to enter - if we have more entries than we have tables, entries will be accepted at the sole discretion of the BHGS. Please contact us with some pictures of your terrain or terrain board and we can look to pencil you in. 

Full details are on the Bolt Action and FoW Britcon pages

FoG AM National rankings now updated 

Results from The Challenge are now posted on our website 

Roll Call returns this June to the same venue as last year, Cranfield near Milton Keynes

Running over the weekend of 22/23 June, the event will feature the following competitions

FoG:AM 15mm 
FoG:AM 25mm
FoG:R 15mm
FoW Early War
DBMM 15mm 
DBMM 25mm
FoG:N

All periods will be run in the traditional 4-games Swiss Chess format. We will also be running the traditional Roll Call team competition, where 4 players (all entered in different periods) can combine to form a team. You will have the option to name your team as part of the booking process. 

Juniors (Under 18) get discounted entry by using the code BHGSUNDER18 when booking. 

To book visit the Roll Call pages on this site 

Challenge 2013 is now over and done, and Tim, Lynda and David are briefly collapsing with a sense of a job well done.  Thanks to everyone for coming and making it all worthwhile.  We had a lot of very positive feedback on the beautiful venue - if only it were the other side of London...

Thanks also to all the people who helped us this year - in no particular order Kevin Johnson (all round Rennaissance man), Andy Ellis (FOG:AM list-checker of unparalleled patience), Terry Shaw (FOG N guru), Matt Haywood (FOW list-checker and troop-gatherer), Adrian Escott (DBMM list-checker), Dave Madigan (last-minute FOW umpire and organiser - and winner!), Tom Frankland (SAGA Warlord), Jim Gibson (sommelier) and Dave Mather (beer-meister!) all did sterling service in order to ensure that a great time was had by all.  Special mention in dispatches for Chris Hanley for his annual Biggles game (sorry about the busted tailplane Chris!).  Chris comes every year and puts up with the incompetence of a dozen or more 20-minuters with great humour and resilience.

Full results of all the competitions will be published shortly.

Next year's event is back at LVS Ascot, our usual venue, and we have a date for your diary already - 11-13 April 2014.  See you all there, and at all the other events we play and organise up and down the country in between.