Britcon '22, in our new home in the centre of Nottingham is now so close you can almost taste its paintwater (is that a thing?) - and we're delighted to be able to report that the entire event is absolutely flying, in terms of both players and traders who have signed up already too!

As of today we have;

• Over 300 gamers taking part ths year - beating our recent record by well over 100!  
• That turnout includes 80 who will make up the first ever, and now sold-out, TFL Lard Workshop Games Day.
• More than 30 traders and demo games confirmed for the Britcon Trade Show
• Onsite accomodation has also just sold out, meaning almost 120 of you will be staying in Uni accommodation within staggering distance of our venue.
• We have announced a new partnership with Forged in Battle, who will be both sponsoring the Britcon Trade Show and providing prize support for all of the 15mm Ancients historical periods as well
• The Bring & Buy has been confirmed, with The Nottingham Board and Wargames Club providing facilities that will allow you to pay - and be paid out - electronically as well as in cash for the first time ever too.

The next few weeks will see a whole load more Britcon promotion hitting the trade press and Facebook, in support of our efforts not only to promote our competitions and gaming events, but also to help us try to build the Britcon Trade Show into a succesful and established date in the Nottingham's gaming community calendar, helping in turn to support and showcase the very many traders and designers working in and around the city.

To achive this we need to ensure as many gamers as possible from the wider Nottingham area get to hear about the Britcon Trade Show - and then come along and enjoy a wargaming day (or two) out in the very heart of the Lead Belt.

So, we'd be really grateful if you too were able to lend a hand by helping promote the show as well. 

With that in mind;

• If you have a website, run a forum or Facebook group, or have an active Twitter account or other online presence and would like to help us promote the Britcon Trade Show we have developed a whole panoply of banners in all shapes and sizes - all of which you can now download from our website and use whenever and wherever you can. 

• If you've got gaming mates in and around the Nottingham area, why not drop them a line to let them know about Britcon this August, that there is a FREE Trade Show they can visit at the same time, and maybe even suggest meeting up there for a pint in our Student-Priced Onsite Local Real Ale Bar?  

In both cases, please link any banners or reminder emails to the Britcon Trade Show page, which can be found at: https://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon-trade-show.html and encourage your gaming buddies to sign up in advance too (entry is still free, but anyone who signs up in advance will be sent details of new launches from traders, special show deals and everything else going on at the event that might help them plan their visit)

Of course we also still have plenty of space in our new venue for many more gamers, so if you and your gaming buddies haven't signed up as yet please feel free check out what events are happening on the Britcon pages on our website too!

We hope you can be a part of this year's Britcon gaming community, and we look forward to seeing you at the show in a few weeks time.

The BHGS Britcon Team

The BHGS website now carries updated rankings for both FoG Renaissance and L'Art de la Guerre, covering all of the events in each ruleset since the effective lifting of lockdown restrictions in July of last year. 

Paddy Bray currently sits proudly atop the 27-player-high Renaissance rankings, with York's Paul Dawson claiming top spot on the (presumably somewhat more precarious) 177-player ADLG ladder.​

The full results from this year's Roll Call are now in, and have been published on the BHGS website along with a collection of dynamic and action-packed photos from the event held in Cranfield earlier this month.

Congratulations to all of our many podium-placers, all of whom went home with a functional and attractive BHGS engraved pint or half-pint glass trophy from this year's event.

​The full set of results is available on the BHGS website 

After Roll Call, The BHGS Challenge will again return to the UK's biggest gaming event, UK Games Expo at the NEC in Birmingham over the weekend of 4th & 5th June, with separate 15mm and 25mm events across both the ADLG and DBMM rulesets already on offer.  

Britcon bookings are absolutely flying out of the door right now, with over 220 participants and a record number of new traders already signed up to play or exhibit in Nottingham over the weekend of 12-14th August - including our first ever Too Fat Lardies Games Day - "Lard Workshop" !

Further ahead still, you can also now book your places for the BHGS Teams running for the first time alongside the much-loved SELWG show at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre in North London over the weekend of 15/16th October.

With the 2022 event circuit now in full swing The BHGS are pleased to be able announce that all 4 of the events making up our 2022 schedule are now available for booking.

This year's BHGS Teams event will take place a couple of weeks later than last year's edition, as we are moving dates (but not venue) to run for the first time alongside the much-loved SELWG show at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre in North London over the weekend of 15/16th October.

Our partnership with the SELWG club also means that all BHGS Teams competitors will now benefit from free entry to the SELWG show, one of the UK's leading and longest-running wargaming events, on the Sunday of the competitions. 

So far we have 3-player team events for ADLG, DBMM, 2-player team events for FoGAM and Mortem et Gloriam, as well as a couple of "singles" events for the DBM and TTS! rulesets confirmed for the BHGS Teams and available to book on our website.   
 
The BHGS Challenge will again return to the UK's biggest gaming event, UK Games Expo at the NEC in Birmingham over the weekend of 4th & 5th June, with separate 15mm and 25mm events across both the ADLG and DBMM rulesets already on offer.  

Finally, Britcon over the weekend of 12-14th August in Nottingham will now be playing host to our first ever Too Fat Lardies Games Day - "Lard Workshop" !

The main day of organised Lardy gaming will be on Saturday 13th August with up to 24 games capable of hosting 80+ players, with the hall also available on Saturday for friendly or pick-up games. Saturday will feature two games, one in the morning (approx. 9.30-12.30pm) and one in the afternoon (approx. 2-5pm) with a break in the middle of the day for lunch, discussion, shopping the traders and enjoying a beer at the subsidised student bar!

Everything for the games will be provided by the game host (figures, terrain, tactical advice etc.). There is no need to have any knowledge of the rules even if this is your first ever game. In fact this a great time to try new rules and periods (and now scales with 2mm Strength and Honour) that you have never played before.

Britcon this year will also host a record-breaking 20 (yes twenty!) other events this year:

• ​​DBA One-day event Saturday​
• Bolt Action 28mm - 2-day event - The Official Warlord Games English Nationals 2022
• NEW for 2022 Swordpoint 28mm 2-day event Sat/Sun - supported by Gripping Beast
• ​​Saga Two separate 1-day events focusing on different themed books - supported by Gripping Beast
• NEW for 2022 War & Conquest 28mm 2-day event Sat/Sun - supported by Rob Broom of Scarab Miniatures
• NEW for 2022 DBM 15mm 2-day event Sat/Sun - making a full sweep of the "DBx" Ancients family at Britcon in 2022!
• NEW for 2022 DBM 25mm 2-day event Sat/Sun - yes, Double DBM !
• Kings of War - 5-games 2-day event Sat/Sun
• Armati - 2-day event Sat/Sun (details TBC)
• L'Art de la Guerre 15mm 6-games 3-day event Fri/Sat/Sun
• L'Art de la Guerre 25mm 5-games 3-day event Sat/Sun 
• Mortem et Gloriam 15mm 5-games 3-day event Fri/Sat/Sun
• Renatio et Gloriam 15mm 5-games 3-day event Fri/Sat/Sun
• DBMM 15mm, 3-day event open pool 5-games Fri/Sat/Sun
• NEW for 2022 DBMM 6mm/25mm, 2-day event open pool 4-games Sat/Sun
• Epic Armageddon 3-day event 6-games Fri/Sat/Sun 
• Field of Glory: Ancients & Medieval V3.0 15mm, 3-day event 5-games Fri/Sat/Sun 15mm
• Field of Glory Renaissance 15mm - 3-day event 5-games Fri/Sat/Sun
• NEW for 2022 To The Strongest!​​ 2-day event Sat/Sun (details TBC)
• NEW for 2022 Battaille Empire 15mm  Napoleonics - 3-day event Fri/Sat/Sun 

The Britcon Trade Show is already proving popular with the wargames trade too, with almost 20 traders including a host of new faces already signed up to attend - full details are on the Britcon Website.

​If you or any of your gaming buddies are "in the trade" and may be interested in exhibiting, or perhaps your club or group would like to stage a demo game at the show please get in touch soon as space is limited 

After a 2-year hiatus, and a bit of additional delay to wait and see if any new restrictions on events in England might have been introduced over the festive period, Roll Call is celebrating being back in its usual timeslot and regular Holywell School venue in Cranfield over the weekend of April 2nd and 3rd 2022.

Roll Call this year will feature the following competitions, all running as 2-day events:

• Bolt Action 28mm
• FoG:AM 15mm
• FoGR 25mm
• DBMM 15mm
• DBMM 25mm / 6mm
• L'Art de la Guerre 15mm 
• L'Art de la Guerre 25mm 
• Mortem et Gloriam 15mm
• Renaissance et Gloriam 15mm
• Saga 25mm

As the mathematically-inclined amongst you may notice, fully half our events this year are supporting our "Big Boys Toys" initiative of the past few recent years, with 25/28mm figures on the tabletop - a great result for the larger scales!

Details and booking information for all periods is now available on the BHGS Website 

As you will no doubt be aware space at the Holywell School is finite and so the competitons at Roll Call regularly sell out, meaning we need to set initial targets & limits for each period, and juggle them a little as bookings come in to try and ensure that all of our periods have the opportunity to achieve viable minimum numbers.

If by the time you come to book, your preferred period is showing as sold out don't panic ! This year we've set up a booking option for "Waitlist" tickets where you can request a "free" ticket for the "Waitlist" for your chosen period or ruleset, allowing us to contact you as and when further tickets become available.

In prior years we have been able to offer tickets to everyone who has put their name down for the Waitlist, and (for obvious reasons) it seems highly likely that some early-bookers will end up unable to attend this year too, so we hope to again be in a position to offer places to everyone who wishes to attend.

The Covid Stuff:
We are currently working on the assumption that there will be no additional social distancing requirements compared to previous editions of Roll Call, however if any new regulations are imposed between now and April which impact how the event can be staged players will be required to comply with them as a condition of entry, or will be offered a refund if they do not wish to participate. If Roll Call cannot be safely or legally staged at all we will refund everyone (again!) and look to return in 2023.

We look forward to seeing you at Roll Call 2022

The BHGS Roll Call team
Dave & Jer

Well... A couple of weeks ago we were confidently planning to put Roll Call tickets on sale on the BHGS website before Christmas, however... given the current uncertainty over Omnicron etc our plan is now to hold off on releasing Roll Call tickets for a little while longer until things (hopefully) become clearer in regard to any potential restrictions that may or may not be in effect going into the early part of 2022.

Our team of umpires have however been busy updating the period details on the BHGS website Roll Call pages so we are all set to go for the weekend of 2nd & 3rd of April 2022, so as soon as we get the green light we'll be full steam ahead again - but after the last 2 years, better safe than sorry for now at least!

We've also confirmed with the organisers of UK Games Expo that The BHGS Challenge will be back at UKGE at the NEC Birmingham over the weekend of 4th and 5th June next year, with our usual suite of competions at the UK's biggest gaming festival.

Tickets should be available towards the end of January via the UKGE website, but those of you planning on attending may want to start thinking about booking accommodation as the show is always a huge draw for the UK gaming community, and so the best hotel deals are worth hunting for even now. 

Finally, we have new dates, but the same (-ish) location for the BHGS Teams event next Autumn, as this event will now be running alongside the SELWG wargames trade show in the Lee Valley Leisure Centre over the weekend of 15th & 16th October. Tickets will be available via the BHGS website, again early in the new year.  

After a 2-year hiatus we're pleased to be able to announce that Britcon will be back again in 2022, taking place at Nottingham Trent University's city-centre campus, conveniently located in the heart of the UK's "Lead Belt" and still in our regular dateline of the 12th-14th August.

The Nottingham Trent venue is much bigger and brighter than before, and will allow us bring all of the gaming onto one floor, extending both the competition space and the trade show and demo game area as well as making it possible for us to run a series of entirely new parallel events alongside our traditional roster of competition periods.

We're also still offering onsite student-priced B&B accomodation and student-priced onsite bars in Nottingham too - allowing our games to run over a variety of different timelines and formats, ranging from the full the "Friday night + 8-8 gaming Saturday + more games on Sunday" timeline, as well as hosting 1 and 2 day events and formats too.

Another new initiative for players this year is that we are now offering everyone "free food".* OK, not quite... but in 2022 all tournament entry fees will include a daily "grab bag" packed lunch (sandwich, crisps, a drink and some fruit), cutting out the need to queue for food when you could be rolling (or buying) dice. We're also keeping the extremely popular Britcon Fiver - where all entrants get a "£5 off any £10 purchase with any trader" voucher as part of their entry fee too. 

Nottingham is also well served by multiple transport links, especially for international players who can either fly into East Midlands Airport, or take the Eurostar to London St Pancras and changing there onto the mainline which runs direct to Nottingham. Both the airport and station have regular bus and tram conections to the venue in the city centre, with stops right outside the front door and only steps away from the accommodation block.​

Periods already confirmed for Britcon 2022 include:​

• NEW for 2022 Swordpoint 28mm 2-day event Sat/Sun - supported by Gripping Beast
• NEW for 2022 War & Conquest 28mm 2-day event Sat/Sun - supported by Rob Broom of Scarab Miniatures
• NEW for 2022 Britcon will play host to an official Too Fat Lardies Game Day (and a half!), more details to follow!
• ​DBA One-day event Saturday
• Kings of War - 5-games 2-day event Sat/Sun
• L'Art del la Guerre 15mm 6-games 3-day event Fri/Sat/Sun
• L'Art del la Guerre 25mm 5-games 2-day event Sat/Sun 
• Mortem et Gloriam 15mm 5-games 3-day event Fri/Sat/Sun
• Renatio et Gloriam 15mm 5-games 3-day event Fri/Sat/Sun
• Bolt Action 28mm - 3-day event - supported by Warlord Games, look out for special announcements and more details soon!
• DBMM 15mm, 3-day event open pool 5-games Fri/Sat/Sun
• NEW for 2022 DBMM 25mm/6mm event open pool 4-games Sat/Sun
• Epic Armageddon 3-day event 6-games Fri/Sat/Sun 
• Field of Glory: Ancients & Medieval 15mm, 3-day event 5-games Fri/Sat/Sun 15mm 
• Field of Glory Renaissance 15mm - 3-day event 5-games Fri/Sat/Sun
• ​​Saga Two separate 1-day events focusing on different themed books - supported by Gripping Beast

For more information on individual themes please visit the Gaming Periods Information page on our website

​Bookings are now open for pretty much all of these events on the BHGS website - the only exceptions are that we're holding off for a little while on putting tickets for Bolt Action and the TFL Games Day on sale as we want to get the full programmes for these events nailed down with Warlord & the TFL teams before we ask anyone to part with their money to play - fear not, we have ample space to accommodate everyone and more this year, so you won't miss out!  

The new venue gives us much more room than we have had in previous years for gaming, traders and demo games, so if you are interested in helping us organise a competition for a ruleset which isn't already covered staging a demo game or taking trade space please get in touch and we'll be delighted to work with you to try and make it happen. 

Onsite Accommodation
In 2022, onsite accommodation will be bookable through the BHGS along with your gaming event ticket. It's not a requirement to book accommodation through us, but if you do we'd really appreciate it, mainly as we are committed to pay for a minimum number of rooms at the Uni as part of our venue contract - but also as we believe it's cheaper, closer and will have a better canteen-style breakfast than any other option anyway!

The COVID Stuff
All attendees will of course be required to adhere to any relevant Covid-related guidelines or regulations which are in place at the time of the event, including any set by the venue or the BHGS. Should the venue and the BHGS determine at any point that it is not possible to stage the event as planned due to Covid-related restrictions, all entry fees will be refunded in full. 

Other BHGS Events
We've literally just had confirmation today from our regular venue for Roll Call that they are able to accept our booking for the weekend of 2nd/3rd April 2022, so we'll be contacting our regular umpires and theme organisers in the next week or so to firm up the themes and then will get tickets on sale as soon as we can.

We'll also be back at UK Games Expo over the weekend of 4/5th June with a roster of competitions, with tickets going on sale in the new year through the UKGE website.

Updated details for all of these events are now on the BHGS website - so we very much hope you too will be able to join us next year to start rolling some dice again at as many events as you can find time to attend.

And, of course.. Bookings are now open for Britcon on the BHGS website too.

After a near 2-year delay, the BHGS Teams event at LGT finally took place in September 2021 at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, alongside the 1,000+ player "GW", SF and fantasy themed competitions of the London Grand Tournament.

As the UK gradually emerged from Covid-related restrictions over the course of 2021 many historical systems have made a return to competitive action, however with just shy of 100 players taking part across 6 different historical periods (DBM, DBMM, L'Art de la Guerre, Field of Glory Ancients and To The Strongest!) the BHGS Teams has been the first multi-ruleset historicals competition to take place in the UK in almost 2 years. 

Alongside the UK-based competitors we also were very pleased to welcome a handful of international-based players from Spain and Germany taking part - especially as some of them managed to take trophies home with them too! 

The results, along with a selection of photos from the games and venue, are now all posted on this website ar BHGS Teams @ LTG 2021 Results: 

The much-delayed BHGS Teams event at the London GT is now only a couple of weeks away, heralding the restart of the BHGS' competitions calendar.  

Originally scheduled pre-lockdown, and with the first players signing up all the way back in January 2020 it's been a long road to get here, but we are delighted to report that with a smidge over 100 players signed up to take part in both team and singles events for L'Art de la Guerre, Field of Glory, DBMM, DBM and To The Strongest! we have maintained or increased numbers across all of these periods since the BHGS Teams last ran in 2019, as well as adding a whole new rulset to the roster this year as well.

The most up to date list of runners and riders we have is now online on the BHGS website (although with 2 weeks to go there are bound to be a few more changes along the way - please contact your period list checker if you spot any changes that need making)

All of that means that we now finally ready to present the biggest multi-ruleset historicals competition to be staged anywhere in the UK in the last 18 months (OK, until Warfare in November anyway!) at the LGT in the Lee Valley Indoor Athletics Centre in London over the weekend of 25th & 26th September. 

​We look forward to seeing you there.

Hard as it may be for some of us to remember the heady days of face to face wargaming pre-Covid, the last couple of months have seen competitions and events gradually creeping back onto the calendar across a number of different rulesets which we host at our events.

For the rankings which are hosted on the BHGS website, a flurry of 1 FoGR event and 7 ADLG competitions since lockdown has meant that both of these systems now have updated  rankings featuring results from events held since the ban on public gatherings was lifted at the end of June. 

The ADLG rankings for the post-Covid era currently feature 89 players, 10 of whom have already managed to attend 3 different events since Lockdown restrictions ended, and 7 of whom attended their first ever ADLG event post-Lockdown.

The FoGR rankings include both events held in the last 12 months,  and a small but no doubt perfectly formed 8 players, almost all of whom have a 100% attendance record at every event held in the last year - which we believe to be a new all-time BHGS Rankings record!  

One of the other features of "Lockdown" has been that some of us apparently have used the time to try to sort out our gaming rooms/cupboards/garages/sheds/caves (delete as appropriate). 

As a consequence, a few players have been in touch to suggest/offer/beg to return to us some of the classic "wall plaque" trophies, which many of you may remember as being a mainstay of BHGS events in the late 90's and early 2000's, with the idea that they could be "upcycled" and "re-gifted" to a whole new generation of grateful competition winners in the coming season.

If therefore you (or possibly someone you share a house with...?) would like to burnish your eco-credentials by joining in with this particular recycling project, please get in touch and let us know how many of these historic trophies you'd be happy to now part with, so we can arrange for them to find loving new homes.