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40-up! Record exhibitor numbers for the 2025 Britcon trade Show

10/6/2025

We've now reached the milestone of having over 40 companies on the exhibitor list for the 2025 Britcon Wargames Trade Show, which will be taking place in the heart of Leicester over the weekend of 23/24 August.

That includes over a dozen first-time Britcon exhibitors, and a host of the "big names" from the wargames circuit as well !

The current list is as follows:

You can currently book a FREE advance ticket to attend the show via our website.

We look forward to seeing you at Leicester's biggest ever wargames event this August 23rd & 24th !

Online Banners now available for Britcon 2025

4/6/2025

We've uploaded a number of graphic images and web banners to our website for you to use to promote Britcon 2025, all of which feature our new venue and location in Leicester.

You can download individual images or a zip file of all of the banners from our site through this link

They feature options for both "Richard III" (who is famously buried in a nearby car park!) and a Spitfire, harking back to our new venue's history as a Spitfire factory in WW2.

A Song of Ice & Fire - The ASOIF Midlands GT added to the Britcon events roster!

27/5/2025

Lords, Ladies, and the small folk of the Seven Kingdoms and beyond, we hereby present the very first ever A Song of Ice & Fire event to take place on the grounds and lands of the Britcon Wargaming Convention!

Yes, a glorious display of combat and skill will take place on the banks of the Soar in the heart of Leicester over the weekend of 23-24 August this year!

This event is the first appearance for A Song of Ice and Fire at a BHGS event, and we are very pleased to be working with Dice of Lead & Steel Wargaming to stage the Midlands GT for this popular, "historical-adjacent" ruleset.

The event will run over two days across Saturday & Sunday, offering players the chance fo fight 5 consecutive battles against a range of friendly (but fierce) opponents in a 40-point, "2-list" competition.

For more details and to download a Tournament pack for the event please visit the ASOIF Midlands GT page on the BHGS website.

Roll Call 2025 - The Results

16/4/2025

Roll Call was held in our usual venue in Cranfield over the weekend of 12-13 April 2025, in (mostly) fine and sunny weather!

The event played host to the Warlord Games Bolt Action English Nationals, as well as events for FoG, MeG, ADLG, DBMM, To The Strongest! Bataille Empire and Saga, with around 150 players taking part over the weekend.

We've now published the full results for all of the competitions held at Roll Call 2025, together with a gallery of pictures from the games and the venue.

Eric Doman

6/4/2025

We are sad to report the passing of Eric Doman earlier this week, following a long struggle with cancer.

Eric was a fantastic player and a huge character on the BHGS competition circuit for many years, often appearing as part of the all-conquering "Warlords" team alongside Nik Sharp and Dave Handley.

In more recent years Eric had returned home to live Wales and had largely stepped back from the wargames scene as he battled illness, but we are sure that there will be a great many people who still remember him (and especially his almost uncanny ability to conjure up a great army out of the least promising and most obscure lists across those 4 DBM books!), and who will be greatly saddened at the passing of both a great competitor, and also undoubtably one of the nicest people on the circuit.

Roll Call - SAGA Rules Pack now available

27/1/2025

We will be hosting a Saga Age of Chivalry Tournament at Roll Call this year on Sunday 13th April 2025, for which the Tournament Pack has just been released.

Each player will battle against changing enemies and different scenarios attempting to become the top Medieval Warlord.

Factions may be chosen only from the Saga Age of Chivalry book.

The most successful players will be rewarded and many thanks to Gripping Beast for supplying the prizes!

Britcon - on the move in 2025

18/11/2024

Following three increasingly succesful editions in Nottingham, Britcon will have a new home in the East Midlands from 2025 onwards - Leicester DeMontfort University's "The Venue@DMU" building on the edge of Leicester City centre.

The Venue@DMU started life as a Spitfire factory (which is actually quite cool really for a historical gaming venue), then served as a sports hall for many years and more recently has been totally refurbished as modern, dedicated event space, which those of you who play of some of the GW rulesets may know as it has already played host to some of the very large "GT" events for those systems.

The hall is a flat floored single space, with full catering & kitchen facilities (of course that includes "a bar"!), allowing us to have everything and everyone together on one level. We also have the option of expanding and accommodating even more gamers into the immediately adjacent QEII Leisure Centre in the coming years

Like Nottingham, Leicester is also centrally located in the East Midlands near to the M1 and other major roads - very much "on the edge" of the Lead Belt if not actually in it - and the venue is just a short walk into the heart of Leicester city centre with its nightlife and many restaurants, and also only around 20 minutes walk from the main station.

We've also been able to maintain the other key element of the Britcon experience - discounted 'onsite' accommodation for players, with a deal being lined up even as we speak at the nearby Holiday Inn Express where we will be ablel bto offer "proper" hotel room & breakfast at comparable prices to those at Trent's student halls, including twin and other rooms for those looking to save even more money on accommodation. We are also still looking at other options too, ensuring that just like Nottingham there will be plenty of accommodation choices to suit all budgets close by, as well plenty of new pubs and restaurants to explore for post-gaming socialising too.

For 2025 one unavoidable consequence of us having to find a new venue at relatively short notice is that the dates for Britcon have ended up being a little later in the year than usual, and will see us running over the weekend of 22-23-24 August. From 2026 we will however be back again in our traditional "second weekend in August" slot and we now have a rolling reservation at The Venue@DMU for that same weekend going forward.

We've already been in touch with all of our Umpires and TO's for all of our events, and so far it looks very much like we will be running a full roster of competitions again in Leicester in 2025 on our new dates and at our new venue. We'll be aiming to speak to them in more detail over the next few weeks with the aim of confirming everything so we can get the tickets on sale for you all sometime before Christmas.

So, please do accept our apologies if this change of dates and venue causes you any inconvenience, but as we are sure you will understand Nottingham Trent's decision to no longer accommodate us has come completely out of the blue, and so finding such a great alternative as The Venue@DMU - even if for next year we do need to run a little later in August than usual - is probably a bit of a result all things considered.

We'll be sending out details of the accommodation and other onsite facilities along with ticket info once we have nailed everything down, so do watch out for them sometime before Christmas - and hopefully we will see you at Britcon 2025 in Leicester over the weekend of 22/23/24 August next year - in a former Spitfire factory ...

Roll Call 2025 - tickets now on sale

12/11/2024

Roll Call 2025 will next take place over the weekend of 12/13th April at our usual venue in Cranfield, near Milton Keynes, and tickets are now on sale.

This year we have a full roster of events in 15mm and 25mm

25mm - The BHGS Big Boys Toys Events

Saga - (1 day event, Sunday only)
DBMM 6mm - 350 points, Open,
L'Art de la Guerre - 200 points, themed
Bolt Action- The English GT, supported by Warlord Games
Mortem et Gloriam 28mm MAGNA - 7,000 points, Open
To The Strongest 28mm (1 day event, Saturday Only)

15mm Events

FoG AM 15mm - Themed
L'Art de la Guerre 15mm - 200 points, themed
DBMM 15mm - 400 points, See DBMM page

Details of all of the competition periods are now on our website, so please check the relevant page for details of your preferred event.

Book tickets for Roll Call 2025

Britcon 2024 : Results & Photos

30/8/2024

We've now published the final standings for all of the events at Britcon 2024 (for which we've been sent the final results by the TO's & Umpires).

They are all listed on the BHGS website "Previous Results" section together with a load of photos from in and around the event.

Britcon 2025 - it's a wrap!

12/8/2024

With our third edition in Nottingham now well and truly done and dusted, its time to say a huge thanks to all our very many Tournament Organisers, Demo Game runners, Traders, Too Fat Lardies Participants and Lardy Game Hosts, the highly eclectically-attired band of East Midlands MegaGame Revolutionaries (!), Dan and the whole team from Wargames Illustrated (who brought The Perrys, Jervis Johnson, Andy Callan and some of the best demo games on the UK circuit to the Wi Room all weekend), Youtube "celebs" Pirate rich paints and The Terrain Tutor, Gary and the tireless team from The Lead Belt Arena running the Bring and Buy, Tim and the bars team (who this year didn't manage to run out of Britcon Ale or Ale Caesar - phew !!), Warlord Games, Gripping Beast and Mierce Miniatures who all brought their own flagship tournaments to Britcon this year, Will at 7th City Collectables for introducing us to the League of Hobbits, everyone who donated their £1 beer glass deposit to our collection in aid of SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity ... and of course our just-over 500 Britcon Trade Show visitors who came, who saw, and ... along with our 400+ onsite players and 100+ trade stand staff and demo-game runners ... almost certainly made this our first ever 1,000+ attendee Britcon!!

We'll all now be taking a well earned rest for a short while, after which we'll get around to updating the Britcon web pages on our site with the 2025 info - after which we will most certainly be back next year over the weekend of 8-10th August here again in Nottingham - the heart of the Lead Belt !