The British Historical Games Society was created in 1996 to act as a body to further the advancement of the historical wargaming hobby. The BHGS runs several national competitions, assists with organising many others.
Wargames is the depiction of battles from various periods in history using detailed and researched, model armies and is played on a tabletop playing area using realistically modelled terrain. This may be played at home, at clubs and even at organised competitions. We support a variety of different rules and periods from the first biblical battles through to modern warfare.
The main aim of the BHGS is to continue to stage a number of multi-ruleset, multi-scale, multi-theme wargaming competitions throughout the UK, most notably Britcon, Roll Call, The BHGS Challenge and the BHBGS Historical Teams. We believe that getting players from as many different strands of historical gaming as possible into the same room over the same weekend is just "a good thing" for the hobby, so if we can help do that by staging some of the UK's largest and longest-running events we're delighted to be able to do so
The BHGS compiles the UK National Rankings for several periods and publish these here on our web site. These are used to determine annual champions in the major periods. The current positions and past winners may all be found on the web-site.
The BHGS is now registered with the Data Protection Agency and we hold details of our members on a computerised database. If you are not already registered as a BHGS member, which is free, we invite you to do so now.
We are happy to receive comments on any of the above, and ideas for our developing role. We are here to serve the tournament wargaming community as a whole. We are a non-profit organisation and any surpluses made from our activities are for the benefit of tournament wargaming and are ploughed back into wargaming, facilitating and encouraging tournament play where and whenever we can.
Wargames is the depiction of battles from various periods in history using detailed and researched, model armies and is played on a tabletop playing area using realistically modelled terrain. This may be played at home, at clubs and even at organised competitions. We support a variety of different rules and periods from the first biblical battles through to modern warfare.
The main aim of the BHGS is to continue to stage a number of multi-ruleset, multi-scale, multi-theme wargaming competitions throughout the UK, most notably Britcon, Roll Call, The BHGS Challenge and the BHBGS Historical Teams. We believe that getting players from as many different strands of historical gaming as possible into the same room over the same weekend is just "a good thing" for the hobby, so if we can help do that by staging some of the UK's largest and longest-running events we're delighted to be able to do so
The BHGS compiles the UK National Rankings for several periods and publish these here on our web site. These are used to determine annual champions in the major periods. The current positions and past winners may all be found on the web-site.
The BHGS is now registered with the Data Protection Agency and we hold details of our members on a computerised database. If you are not already registered as a BHGS member, which is free, we invite you to do so now.
We are happy to receive comments on any of the above, and ideas for our developing role. We are here to serve the tournament wargaming community as a whole. We are a non-profit organisation and any surpluses made from our activities are for the benefit of tournament wargaming and are ploughed back into wargaming, facilitating and encouraging tournament play where and whenever we can.