With the festive break now just a distant memory the BHGS are pleased to announce that our full roster of events for 2020 are now open for bookings, with tickets now released for both The BHGS Challenge (30-31st May @ The NEC Birmingham) and Britcon (7-9th August, Manchester), adding to those already onsale for The London GT BHGS Historical Teams at the end of June, and of course the almost-sold-out Roll Call coming up this April.

The BHGS Challenge this year will feature competitions for:

• L'Art de la Guerre 15mm  5-game 2-day event
• L'Art de la Guerre 25mm 5-game 2-day event
• DBMM 15mm 6-game 2-day event
• DBMM 25mm (using 6mm figures) 4-game 2-day event
• FoGAM  5-game 2-day event

Britcon has a comprehensive roster of events this year, including: 

• ​DBA 1 day event (Saturday)
• Kings of War - 2-day event (Sat/Sun)
• L'Art del la Guerre 15mm 7-game 3-day event
• L'Art de la Guerre 25mm 5-game 2-day event
• Mortem et Gloriam 15mm 6-game 3-day event 
• Renatio et Gloriam 6-game 3-day event 
• Bolt Action 28mm - supported by Warlord Games
• DBMM 15mm 6-game 3-day event 
• Epic Armageddon
• Field of Glory: AM  6-game 3-day event 
• ​​Saga 25mm 2-day event  (Sat/Sun)

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Tickets are also selling strongly for The London GT BHGS Historical Teams, where we have events for the following systems on offer:

• FoG A/M (team of 3)
• L'Art de La Guerre (team of 3)
• Mortem et Gloriam (Singles : The MeG World Championships)
• Renatio at Gloriam (Singles : The ReG World Championships)
• DBMM (team of 3)
• To The Strongest! (singles, Sunday only)

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Finally, we have only a handful of places left for Roll Call this year across the TTS!, FoGR and Bataille Empire systems - so if you are thinking about entering any of these events, best be quick!

As always, full details on our upcoming events are available on our website at www.bhgs.org.uk or via our Facebook page www.facebook.com/TheBHGS
 
We look forward to seeing you at one of our events throughout this year

The BHGS rankings are the gift that just keeps on giving, and in a special pre-Christmas double bonus we have updated versions of both the BHGS L'Art de la Guerre and BHGS FoGAM rankings now published for your delight and delectation.

As you gather round the tree to sing carols, wear ill-fitting and unappealing sweaters (actually.. that's probably no different to much of the rest of the year for most wargamers) and sip mulled wine you can now also see just how naughty or nice your performance in all of the ADLG and FoGAM events staged in the UK over the course of the past year has been.

Will Santa be delivering good news as to whether you've ended 2019 higher up the rankings that your clubmates?  Check out the BHGS L'Art de la Guerre and BHGS FoGAM rankings to find out!

We've now been sent the results from the main historical periods at Warfare 2019, and they are now published on the BHGS website.

Next year we'll probably need a bigger page, as Warfare moves to a larger venue at Ascot Racecourse, which should allow many more players to take part!
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We're pleased to announce the lineup of BHGS events for 2020, with both Roll Call and the London GT Teams tickets also already on sale. 

The full roster for this year is :

• Roll Call - Cranfield, 4th & 5th April 
• BHGS Challenge @ UKGE - Birmingham NEC, 30th & 31st May   
• London GT Teams - Lee Valley Sports Centre London, 26th & 27th June
• Britcon - Manchester, 7th, 8th & 9th August 

(This year the London GT event will take place at the end of June due to construction work at the venue this autumn. The organiser plans to shift back to an autumn slot from 2021)

More rulesets than ever before.
Continuing our record of introducing new rulesets, 2020 will see Roll Call host our first ever event for the new Bataille Empire Napoleonic ruleset, with more planned for later in the year. Renatio et Gloriam also moves from beta testing to the staging of open-play events in 2020 - and we also will be hosting the official MeG World Championships for the first time at the London GT Teams in June as well:

The current roster of confirmed rulestes is as follows:

• Roll Call - ADLG, TTS!, FOG, FoGR, DBMM, MeG. ReG, Saga, Bolt Action, Bataille Empire,
• BHGS Challenge @ UKGE - ADLG, DBMM, FOG 
• London GT Teams - ADLG, TTS!, FOG, DBMM, MeG. ReG, Saga,
• Britcon - ADLG, FOG, KoW, DBMM, MeG. ReG, Saga, Bolt Action, Epic, DBA

We're always looking for people to host and umpire new periods so if you are interested please get in touch

Tickets for Britcon and the BHGS Challenge @ UKGE will go on sale in the next few weeks.

​There are also plenty of other events to take part in across the country throughout 2020 - the Calendar on our website is being continually updated just as soon as we are able to confirm details with other organisers. 

We look forward to seeing you across the table in 2020!

The BHGS UK ADLG rankings have been updated with results from all 35 events held across the UK over the last 12 months up to and including the recent BHGS Teams and 4th round of the Northern League. 

The latest L'Art de la Guerre BHGS rankings span a total of 203 placings - the first time in almost 6 years that any BHGS UK ranking system has featured over 200 different players, with 42 having entered 6 or more events to record a "full" BHGS ADLG ranking score.

These rankings also feature 14 overseas-based players who have taken part in UK events in the last year. ​A "blended" ranking score has been used for players at Campaign and the BHGS teams, giving equal weighting to each players team and individual placings. 

Over the weekend of 14/15th September more than 150 players from around the world took part in our first ever London Teams event, hosted alongside the London GT (a mostly 40k) competition at the Leigh Valley Sports Centre

Competitions for ADLG, DBMM, MeG, FoGAM, To The Strongest! and also the Saga World Cup were staged across the weekend, and all of the results we have are now posted here along with some photos from the event.

General feedback from the event was very positive and so we will be looking to renew this new partnership with the LGT organisers to bring even more historical events to the venue next year​.

 With just over a couple of weeks to go the current roster of teams (and players) who have entered for the BHGS Team event at the London GT is now available: 

L'Art de la Guerre (Teams of 3)
1 Tres Sanguinem Stulti Jamieson Allen Mackay
2 Team Snake Eyes Finkel McLeod Finney
3 Dim Mortals Saunders LeRay Meyer Case
4 MKWS Pearce Pearce Evans
5 Pinner Martin-Smith Dare Brown
6 42 is the meaning of Life Webb Webb Zubelida
7 Dorset & Ware Nomads Gollop Frith Dewbery
8 S.A.D Cavanagh Clarke Hacker
9 G4S Rowland Sola Mackay

DBMM (Teams of 3)
1 Denmark Blasi Magiaro Darby
2 West Wivenhow Warlords Mann Hare Houston
3 MK White Hosker Bainbridge Sims
4 Barbarossa Bohn Luck Kimmerle
5 GGBAD2 Pallin Mather Pickering
6 Men of Kent Coombs-Hoare Kershaw Frye
7 Lokomotiv Leeds Richardson Nathan Kumarswamy
8 Brayborough United Van Emden Gibson TBA
9 Unreliable Allies Greaves Taylor Mills

FoGAM (Teams of 2)
1 Morrison Patrick
2 Murton Briggs
3 Shaw Shaw
4 Fairhurst Fairhurst
5 Ruddock Longmore
6 Powell Simpson

Saga World Cup (Teams of 4)
1 England
2 Belgium
3 Spain 1
4 Hungary
5 France 1
6 Germany
7 USA Blue
8 USA Red
9 Spain 2
10 Sweden 

Mortem et Gloriam (individual Entry)
1 Flint
2 Jeffery-Cook
3 Gaukroger
4 Denham
5 Broomer
6 Stead
7 Cummins
8 Spence
9 Donohoe
10 Cross
11 Entwistle

To The Strongest! (Individual Entry)
1Miller
2Thompson
3Winter
4Guest
5Lee
6Charlton
7Maxim
8Green
9Dover
10Purchon
11Ryding
12Doran
13White
14Humphreys

More entries are of course welcome, however to aid organisation of the overall event we are likely to close entries for those periods where there are currently even numbers of teams/players in the near future.

As part of the headlong rush to publish pre-Britcon rankings the FoGAM elves have also been busily tapping away to analyse the results from all 50 players to take part in the 16 UK events held in the previous 12 months. 

It also all still looks pretty tight at the top for FoGAM with an spectacular Briggs-Bartlett struggle for supremacy going into the final round. 

Full results can be seen here on the BHGS website
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As the UK ADLG rankings year rolls to a close at Britcon 2019, there has been an update to the rankings covering all 198 players and all 34 events they have taken part in over the preceding 12 months right across the UK.  

Whilst even the most Sky-Sports-Transfer-deadline-day-esque attempt to hype things up is unlikely to convince anyone that the race for the top spot this year will be impacted by Britcon's results, the rest of the top 5 is very much in play with a 4-way fight between club members from Lancaster, CLWC, Durham and Halifax all in the frame

The full rankings can be found here on the BHGS website 

The current roster of 179 players signed up across the round-dozen periods being contested at this year's Britcon has now been updated as of 25/7/2019.

With still a couple of weeks to go that means we're only one player short of last year's ("modern era" record) total ! 

We also have uneven numbers currently in Epic, Kings of War, ADLG 15mm, MeG and Saga, and so whilst we do have umpire-shaped solutions for most of these, if you did fancy playing any of these systems your presence would be most welcome!