Competition entries for the 2017 BHGS Challenge @ UK Games Expo at the NEC,
 Birmingham on the weekend of 3/4 June are now open for bookings on the UKGE website!

This year we will have the following events on offer:

• 15mm Field of Glory Ancients 
• 15mm Field of Glory Renaissance
• 15mm DBMM
• 6mm DBMM on 25mm basing
• 15mm L'Art de la Guerre
• 25mm L'Art de la Guerre
• 15mm Mortem et Gloriam
• 6mm Blucher (offered as two one-day events) 
• Bolt Action  (offered as two one-day events) 
• Epic Armageddon

 To book in you need to first register on the UKGE website and then navigate to the "Miniatures Events" page on the "Events" menu to select your chosen competition.

All Competitions are priced at £16 for 2-day events, and £8 for 1-day events but you will also need to buy a UKGE pass for the days you are planning on attending as well.  These are £22 for two days, with other options (3 days, family entry etc) also available for those of you who want to take part in some of the other UKGE events.  

Ticketing is being handled by the UKGE team, and so if you have a query about ticketing please contact them via their Ticketing FAQ page , as we will be unable to help with any queries relating to tickets

For details on each period see the UKGE website or the BHGS Challenge pages on the BHGS site

The BHGS Challenge is one of the UK's longest-running multi-ruleset competitions, with the first edition having taken place back in 2002. Each year up to 200 gamers regularly take part, playing rulesets covering all eras of historical gaming. 

The BHGS was set up in the 1990's to promote historical tabletop wargaming. Our main role is to organise a number of multi-ruleset wargaming tournaments across the UK each year, including now The BHGS Challenge@UKGE. 

This colocation with UKGE is a great opportunity to promote and grow the hobby of histocial gaming by exposing it to thousands of other gamers at the UK's biggest and busiest gaming event. All types of gaming are growing rapidly in popularity, and so to have the opportunity to be part of an event with thousands of other gamers gives us all a wonderful platform to promote historical gaming to the widest possible audience


​Richard Denning of UKGE commented – “We at Expo aim to promote tabletop gaming in all its forms. Historical Wargaming is one of the ancestors of all forms of tabletop gaming having led the way thanks to pioneers  like HG Wells in the early 20th century and giants like Donald Featherstone in the 1960’s and 70s. Fantasy and SciFi wargaming, roleplaying and many forms of board games owe their very existence to the earlier historical gamers.  As such it is great to add in these tournaments to those on offer.”

After a 2-month break which has seen two near-30 -player events take place at opposite ends of the M4 (The Central London Invitational, and Virtus in Cardiff), the second edition of Scottish tournament Sighian Dubh and also the debut of ADLG at Warfare 2016, the BHGS UK L'Art de la Guerre Rankings have been updated to reflect the current UK standings. 

We now have a new leader, and also a tie for 2nd place - which the ranking system appears (rather unfairly some might say) to have printed out in alphabetical order of first name. 

(There are also 3 UK-based players who are currently ranked in the Global top 20 on the international ADLG rankings site).

The latest BHGS FoGR rankings have been compiled, to include the results from Oxford 25mm, Northern League Round 5 and Warfare.

With 95 players listed in the rankings contributing almost 300 competition entries between them the Renaissance community is still very healthy, and with a minor update to the rules being planned by Slitherine in the near future the world of Pike & Shot looks well set for a busy 2017!