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To The Strongest! & Saga @ Roll Call 2019

30/9/2018

There will be one brand new ruleset, and another familiar ruleset making a welcome return to Roll Call in 2019 as we can now confirm that the 2019 event will be hosting both To The Strongest! and Saga next April in Cranfield.

The To The Strongest! event will be the first time a BHGS event has made it onto the UK competition calendar for Simon Miller's popular ancients set, and we're delighted that Simon himself will be umpiring and running a 1-day 28mm TTS! event for us on Saturday 27th April

Mark Birch (the cunningly named MarkB on the Saga forum) will also be helming a V2 Saga event on Sunday 28th, meaning that pretty much half of the events at Roll Call 2019 will feature "28mm" figures !

Both events are open for bookings on the BHGS website Roll Call pages

FoGAM "Year End" Rankings published

10/9/2018

With Britcon now just a distant memory, Rankingsmesiter Dave Ruddock has grudgingly coughed up the 2017-18 "year end" FoGAM rankings to share with an eager world.

These rankings include all events from just after Britcon last year up until this year's event (with the exception of Derby 2017, where results were not published).

Congratulations to Paul Bartlett for topping the pile at the end of this, the first ranking year to include V3.0 competitions!

2017-18 "Year End" BHGS UK ADLG ranking published

22/8/2018

The UK ADLG year ends at Britcon, and this year the results of the Britcon competition itself made all the difference at the top of the leaderboard as Mike Bennett was crowned UK annual rankings champion, squeaking past Hubert Bretagne by a mere 5 points, 486 to 481!

The full rankings feature 183 players, all of whom entered at least one of the 31 separate ADLG events which took place in the UK in the last 12 months.

The UK-specific version of the international ADLG rankings are calculated on a different (ELO) basis, and can be accessed on the ADLG website

Britcon 2018 - the Results

17/8/2018

The BHGS site now has all of the results we have been sent from the various umpires and tourney teams - so you can see where you and your clubmates ended up in your event

We posted loads of photos of the event on our Facebook Page throughout the weekend, and we've now also consolidated them all onto a single page on our website too so you may be able to find a few shots of your own army on there - or maybe yourself picking up a trophy - if you look carefully!

Looking at the various forums and facebook pages for the gaming systems which were represented it appears that pretty much everyone enjoyed the weekend, both gamers and traders, which is fantastic. Even the Mancunian drizzle wasn't too bad - and let's face it, if the long spell of hot weather hadn't broken just before Britcon it would have been a lot worse ..

Next up for the BHGS is the Ancients Doubles on the weekend of 22/23 September, with events for L'Art de la Guerre, FoGAM, Mortem & Gloriam and DBMM at Battlefield Hobbies in Daventry.

Next year Roll Call will return to Cranfield over the weekend of 27th & 28th April (we should have the website set up to take bookings in the next few weeks) and also The BHGS Challenge will again be back at UK Games Expo at the NEC on the weekend of 31st May-2nd June.

Bob Whitehouse:

5/8/2018

We are sorry to have to relay some terribly sad news in that Bob Whitehouse, who many of you will no doubt know and remember, has lost his hardest battle in the fight against cancer.

Bob was a true friend to many of us on the BHGS circuit, an intelligent and kind man as well as a great adversary across the wargames table. He always played every game in the proper way, and then was also a great character to share the evening with in the pub afterwards too.

The loss of Bob will be keenly felt by his closest friends, and all of our thoughts go out to his wife Alison, two sons Alexander and James for whom his loss will be even more keenly felt.

We are sure that those of you who knew Bob will join us in raising a glass to a wonderful man.

‘To Bob - a gentleman.’

Pre-Britcon Rankings Frenzy!

31/7/2018

With the biggest event in our calendar, Britcon 2018, coming up soon (and featuring a record number of players) the BHGS have published a slew of updated rankings for the following historical rulesets, all of which will feature at Britcon:

All of these ranking sets cover all events held in the UK in the previous 12 months. The latest DBMM rankings can also be found online here at Partridges.org.uk

Of course, we know that there are some of our players who really couldn't care less how they might stack up against everyone else in the room at Britcon this year ... but if this is your sort of thing, enjoy!

Armati - added to the roster of games at Britcon 2018

7/7/2018

Armati has now been (re-) added to the Britcon running order, with a 5-game, 2-day event on Saturday & Sunday.

Steve Metheringham and Craig Tunnock are on umpiring duties, and full details will be published soon - however bookings are already open via the Britcon Booking page. So, if you're an Armati player, this is your opportunity to take part in the biggest event of the year, with 11 players already flagging up their interest.

Onsite accommodation is also still available at "student" rates as well - booking details on the BHGS website

Britcon 2018 Bar Prices released

6/7/2018

Bar prices for Britcon have now been released, with our traditional "ideal to share with your opponent" 4 Pint Pitchers again on offer for just £10 with draft Fosters, John Smiths or Strongbow.

The bar is open 7-11pm on Fri, 11am-8pm Saturday and 12-3pm Sunday, so will be available for practice and social games on Friday, as well as to competitors and trade show visitors throughout the weekend.

The full price list is available to download here

FoGAM rankings updated

24/6/2018

The BHGS FoGAM rankings have been updated, covering all UK events held in the last 12 months across both V2.0 and V3.0 - and we even have a new leader of the pack as the AM circuit gears up for Britcon 2018!

FoGR Rankings updated

18/6/2018

The latest edition of the FoGR rankings have been published, with Ben Jones claiming the top spot out of the 66 current FoGR players, on the back of his results across 7 different tournament appearances in the last 12 months.

The full rankings are posted online here

The next FoGR event in the calendar is Devizes, where there are still a couple of slots open to see the current 12-player field extended further, followed by the BHGS's Britcon event in Manchester over the weekend of 10-12 August