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Results from the 2017 BHGS Challenge.

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For the first time ever the BHGS Challenge moved north to the NEC in Birmingham to run alongside the gaming phenomenon that is UK Games Expo in June 2017.

This put our 100+ gamers in a hall which must have had over 1,000 people playing miniatures and card games at some points over the weekend, with excellent lighting and ventilation, right next to proper loos, a bar, hot-food restaurant and its own branch of Subway!!

Overall more than 100 players took part this year, representing a year-on-year increase in player numbers across those periods and systems we are running this year - so we were certainly putting on a good showcase for the tabletop gaming side of the hobby for the UKGE audience too.

​Full results for the periods where we have been sent them are below, along with some pictures from the event:

15mm FoGAM

        
   Round    Army
1Graham BriggsReigate1222181971Early Achaemenid Persian
2Paul BartlettPlymouth2410211267Medieval Castillian
3Dave RuddockMAWS251025666Early Ottoman Turk
4Graeme CarollDurham22992565Late Ottoman Turk
5Paul LongmoreMAWS725141460Late Ottoman Turk
6Graham EvansPinner92522258Western Han Chinese
7Andy EllisImpalers131224857Feudal Castillian
8Dino MonticoliOctober90252256Medieval Crown of Aragon
9Pete DalbyHampshire Hogs92361452Medieval Portugese
10Derek BartlettPlymouth32512251Mayan
11Steve BrownPlymouth13821648Later Macedonian
12David PuttPlymouth131311643Later Macedonian
12Roger PitfieldMercenary123171143Western Han Chinese
14David FairhurstOxford11319942Early Achaemenid Persian
15Dave MorrisonGloucester81122041Early Successor
16John PatrickGloucester8262440Free Company
16Terry ShawReigate11224340Late Ottoman Turk
18Steve MurtonReigate24110338Late Ottoman Turk
18Phil JelleyOxford16741138Yuan Chinese
20Chad PillingerNottingham0624333Han Chinese
21Jon AkersPlymouth1193932Kofun Nara
22Peter CardOxford1012325Imperial German
23Lynda FairhurstOxford793120Han Chinese
24Malcolm GordonDurham70029Carolingian

15mm DBMM

        
   Round    Army
1Jim GibsonMKWS1025132573Malay
2Thom RichardsonLeeds1519231471Later Muslim Indian
3Richard FoxonEssex1425141164Feudal Spanish
4Ian AustinIvanhoe1223121360Sung Chinese
5Greg MannEssex139112558Khitan Liao
6Gordon HarrowOctober1116131252Seljuk Turk
7John FletcherMAWS1021425**51Feudal English
8Peter KershawIndependent156121750Feudal Spanish
9Keith NathanLeeds221611049Sicilian
10Roy LoachOctober3023*1137Early Serbian or Croatian
11Chris JolleyGateshead2592036Feudal English
12John SaundersOctober03*101427Pre-Feudal Scots
13Stuart WhighamOctober0**015823Central Asian Turkish
*Bye score - result of game against the umpire (using Alan)       
**Bye score - scored as result of next game, or 25VP in final round      

6mm DBMM

        
   Round    Army
1Steve BainbridgeMKWS1225251072Early Byzantine
2Mike PickeringMKWS1117102260Central Asian Turkish
3Ian SimsMKWS138132357West Frankish or Norman
4Neil SutherlandMKWS1412121553Gallic
5Pete GillespyMKWS25130341Ptolomeic
8Mike NewnhamMKWS0015217Later Carthaginian

15mm L'Art de la Guerre

#Name ClubScoreArmy SizeR1R2R3R4R5
769RichardCaseCLWC401109Sassanid Persian33VictoireVictoireVictoireVictoireNul
397HubertBretagneCLWC345109Sassanid Persian32VictoireDéfaiteVictoireVictoireNul
712TimPorterCLWC290109Sassanid Persian30VictoirenulVictoireDéfaiteNul
715GordonJamiesonCLWC29052Camillan Roman34VictoirenulDéfaiteNulVictoire
100HerveCailleEl Kreator28887Patrician Roman36DéfaitenulVictoireNulVictoire
708PeterWebbCLWC25543Ptolemaic34nulVictoireDéfaiteNulNul
800IanMackayCLWC25471Armenians32nulnulDéfaiteNulVictoire
772RichardYoungSoA249115African Vandal35DéfaitenulVictoireNulNul
710DaveSaundersCLWC23940Alexander the Great33VictoirenulDéfaiteNulNul
713DarrellPearceMKWS23146Bactrians & Indo-Greek30DéfaiteDéfaiteVictoireNulNul
261LionelMorvanFrance22591Dacians and Carpi40DéfaiteVictoireDéfaiteNulNul
1015NikSharpWarlords22246Bactrians & Indo-Greek33nulnulVictoireDéfaiteDéfaite
1014KeithMartin-SmithHexwar21087Patrician Roman34nulnulDéfaiteVictoireDéfaite
720NigelPooleGloucester111106Palmyran33DéfaiteDéfaiteDéfaiteDéfaiteDéfaite

25mm L'Art de la Guerre

IDFirst NameSurnameClubPointsN°ArmyUnitsResultResultResultResultResult
747RichardWalkerAlumwell409228Medieval Spanish22VictoireVictoireVictoireVictoireNul
768DaveAllenCLWC357193Ghaznavid21VictoireVictoireVictoireDéfaiteVictoire
1023GarethEvansMKWS272251Ottoman Empire24DéfaiteVictoireVictoireDéfaiteNul
857SimonLeRay-MeyerCLWC236227Medieval German23DéfaiteDéfaiteDéfaiteVictoireVictoire
1006KevinJohnsonDerby200193Ghaznavid20NulDéfaiteDéfaiteVictoireDéfaite
752MarkClarkeAlumwell142261Indonesian & Malay24NulDéfaiteDéfaiteDéfaiteDéfaite

15mm MeG

         
   Round    ArmyDate
1Alasdair HarleyOxford1515151560Gepid & Rugii Allies454AD
2Simon ElliottCentral London158151553Eastern Later Foederate Roman466AD
3Lance FlintFarnborough151521547Norse Irish & Viking Allies950AD
4Dave ParishReigate151021542Later Carthaginian215BC
5Richard Jeffrey-CookFarnborough41515438Early Medieval French & Norman Allies951AD
6Lee SandersIndependent898833Ghaznavid1000AD
7Keith SpeddingOctober4156429Sassanid Persian600AD
8Peter CrossIlford863825Numidians & Early Imperial Roman Allies4AD
9Stephen SteadOxford6102624Viking1069AD
10Neil PowellPenarth02204Mid Republican Roman & Numidian Allies202BC

Bolt Action

Saturday
  • Gary Betts
  • Dave Redhead
  • Jed Tales
Sunday
  • Paul Walker 
  • Kieran Burne
  • Jed Tales

Saga

There were 11 players and the top 3 places were as follows
  • 1st place - Mark Birch - 37.3 points using a Pagan Rus warband
  • 2nd place - Tracy Beech - 30.7 points using a Norman warband
  • 3rd Place - Richard Malpas - 30 points using a Scotti warband
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Original graphic design by Nobby
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