The full rankings now feature 21 players and can be found on the BHGS website
In an extremely sporadic but no doubt warmly welcomed occurrance, the BHGS FoGR Rankings have been updated for the first time since October 2023 !
The full rankings now feature 21 players and can be found on the BHGS website
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One of our team was invited to do a guest spot on the very popular Plastic Crack Podcast earlier this week, and managed to get some "Britcon"-related talk into the discussion while he was on air.
Check it out in this section of the pod (the link should start at the relevant point in the podcast as well), but if not it's at around 1 hour 42 minutes in. If you are nterested in bringing a group to play at Britcon (Competition or just "3 day s of games") you can get in touch with us at [email protected] ![]() Last weekend the BHGS staged our annual Roll Call event in Cranfield. 150 players took part across 10 different events, and all of the results are now posted online on the BHGS Website together with a host of photos taken across the weekend of the event showing some of the armies that were in tabletop action - meaning that those of you who headed off early to beat the traffic can now find out where you placed! We're now also only 4 months away from our biggest event of the year, Britcon (9th-11th August) running in the heart of the Lead Belt at Nottingham Trent's University City Centre Campus. This year Britcon is playing host to a number of high-profile events, with the Gripping Beast Saga Grand Melee joining the Warlord Games Bolt Action GT on the Britcon tournament roster for the first time, along with both Swordpoint and a more relaxed Saga "Ironman" events running alongside the Saga Grand Melee competition. We've also added a slew of new periods and systems, including:
Every Britcon entry ticket again includes a £5 trader voucher and also a grab-bag lunch for each weekend day you are playing - saving you somewhere north of £15-25 in on-the-day outlay compared to many other events and venues on the UK wargaming circuit (and also meaning that "queuing for food" isn't going to eat into your gaming, shopping and socialising time at Britcon either!). The BHGS have also secured even more student accommodation in University Halls this year for our "onsite" Bed & Breakfast Gamers Accommodation Deal just 5 minutes walk from the venue (and even closer to a Weatherspoons with late night opening!) which you can book along with your gaming ticket. The Uni will be asking us to lock-down the number of rooms we will be taking up sometime around the middle of May, so to take advantage of this offer make sure you book soon, as we will only be able to hold a limited number of additional rooms for sale once we get past the venue's May cutoff date this year. We are also working on bringing in a few more competition periods, as well hosting several groups who will be sharing our venue to stage their own weekend-long "social" gaming events this year. If you think your group or gaming community might also interested in sharing our venue for a long weekend of uninterrupted gaming please get in touch and we'll see what we can do to accommodate you. Before Britcon of course the 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 1st & 2nd June with ADLG & DBMM on offer this year and available to book on the UKGE website. Whichever of our events you are planning on attending, we look forward to seeing you across the table later in the year. The BHGS Events Team Tickets to the competitions at this year’s BHGS Challenge @ UK Games Expo have just gone live on the UK Games Expo website.
This year we will be running events for :Both events will run across the 1st & 2nd June at UK Games Expo, the UK’s biggest tabletop gaming event, and can now be bought direct from the UK Games Expo website. To play you need to purchase a ticket for the competition (via the UKGE "Events" page) plus a visitor pass to UK Games Expo covering at least the two weekend days. If you are attending other events at UKGE, or coming with friends and family there are many other types of passes (3 days, family entry etc) available to extend your visit. Full details of the competition themes for these three events are available on the BHGS website. We look forward to seeing you across the tabletop at the NEC this coming June when we will again be part of this truly amazing festival of tabletop gaming! The BHGS Challenge Team No, it's not a new "Vikings meet Robin Hood" mashup-miniseries on Apple TV, the HUGE news of the day in the world of wargaming is that the Gripping Beast Saga Grand Melee is returning to the Midlands and will be taking place at the Britcon Convention in the heart of Nottingham over the weekend of 10-11 August 2024! This Year's Grand Melee theme will be "Age of Darkness", with a two-day Saga v2 tournament, fully supported by Gripping Beast (who will also be in attendance at the Britcon Trade Show too) at Nottingham University's City Campus conference and event centre on the 10th and 11th of August 2024.
The venue is slap bang in the centre of Nottingham (which Gripping Beast have reliably informed us is Wargaming's second capital, after of course Evesham..) and its lively nightlife, and as well as the Britcon Trade Show plays host to a full bar, onsite "student" accommodation which can be booked along with your ticket, parallel Swordpoint and Saga Iron Man events, as well as the opportunity to arrive early and play some friendly games late into the night on Friday evening. The Tournament Pack for the Grand Melee is already available to download from the BHGS website and covers the event rules and all other information that you will need to ensure that you have a great time - including how to book for the event. Nottingham Mainline Station is just a 15 minute walk (or 3 minute tram ride) from the Nottingham City Campus venue, with Nottingham enjoying great rail connections to many cross country and inter city routes. For international players Nottingham is on a direct train line from St Pancras, the Eurostar terminus in London, making Britcon easily accessible from Europe by rail, with East Midlands Airport also another option just 15 miles outside the city on the Skylink bus. The BHGS & Gripping Beast look forward to welcoming you to the 2024 Saga Grand Melee - we can’t wait to see you there! ![]() Britcon 2024, The BHGS's historically-themed wargames convention returns for the third year to the very heart of the UK's Lead Belt wargaming community in Nottingham over the weekend of 10th & 11th August at the Nottingham Trent Uni City campus Conference Centre, and The BHGS are now taking applications from clubs and groups to stage demo and participation games at this year's event. Fitting neatly into the East Midlands' wargaming calendar "Summer" slot (with Hammerhead and both Partizan shows in the other 3 calendar quarters), Britcon boasts an eclectic mix of historical and non-historical competition games, less competition orientated "organised play" gatherings from gaming communities such as the Too Fat Lardies, and of course the Britcon Trade Show including space for a number of show-floor demos and participation games, And, uniquely all of this happens slap bang in the middle of Nottingham, with great connections to every conceivable form of public transport as part of a multi-day convention with onsite student accommodation right on the doorstep of all of the evening (and daytime) attractions that Nottingham has to offer the discerning wargamer running a weekend demo or participation game! We also offer:
Britcon is a 2-day event which this year is on track to host over 500 "there all weekend" players, plus several hundred additional "walk-in" show-only attendees as the show becomes more firmly established as we move into our 3rd year in Nottingham. The main day of the show will again be from 10-4 on Saturday, with a part day on Sunday from 10-2 In terms of layout the demo games are integrated within the main trade show floor, which sits at the very heart of the event. Show attendees walk from the entrance straight into the middle of the show, and all of the residential gamers will also be walking past our stands and demo tables multiple times every day to get to the bars, catering spaces and even the main entrance and exits from the venue each morning and evening. We will also again be promoting attendance at the trade show to our database of 750 gamers, running a series of ads in the usual trade press and online, pushing news about the show out on our social media channels, and working with Gary at the Nottingham Wargames Collective to reach out to their list of local gamers as well in order to make sure everyone in the catchment area hears about the Britcon show and your presence at it. If your group is interested in applying to run a demo game, or if you have any questions or would like to understand more about taking part in Britcon 2024, please get in touch by email and we can arrange a time to discuss the possibilities. Britcon will be back in Nottingham later this year, with an expanded roster of events and competitions for you and your gaming buddies and clubmates to take part in from Friday-Sunday over the weekend of 9-11 August this year.
To book your tickets go to the Britcon Booking Page As well as our traditional roster of competitions this year we've added a unique "Doubles" competition for the very popular MESBG system, the East Midlands Megagame group will be running one of their immersive strategic event experiences, and of course we have the return of Too Fat Lardies Lard Workshop and the Official Warlord Games Bolt Action GT. Almost all of the events listed on our website now have updated details showing the 2024 themes, and the rest should be updated shortly (once they are confirmed by our TOs). And, as well as all of that gaming wonderfulness we are still working with some "big names" from the industry to put the final touches to a number of other exciting "flagship" events which we hope to be able to reveal in the coming weeks as well - so keep your eyes peeled for more big announcements! The Britcon Trade Show will be running again over the weekend, and we will also have an expanded range (and many more barrels!) of special Britcon Brews for your delight and delectation as well. This year we have also been able to secure an increased allocation of onsite student-priced B&B accommodation allowing even more of you to stay only steps away from the venue while saving your cash for our many traders (or some of Nottingham's many great bars & restaurants!). Onsite student accommodation is also again bookable direct from the BHGS along with your gaming event ticket. Britcon is again being sponsored by Forged in Battle, and we will be working again with the Nottingham Board & Wargames Club to support the event and run the Bring and Buy at the weekend tradeshow too. In 2024 all competition and event tickets again include a "grab bag" lunch each day you are playing, as well as a £5 voucher to spend with any of our traders at the show - a unique bundle of benefits worth around £25 to weekend gamers, all of which is baked into the ticket price. We look forward to seeing you in Nottingham! To book your ticket go to the Britcon Booking Page The BHGS Britcon team https://www.bhgs.org.uk/ (If there's a gaming system that we've missed, and which you'd like to help us organise at Britcon please get in touch as we are always looking for new systems and periods to add to the roster of events. Likewise if you are a trader and are interested in exhibiting, or if your gaming group would like to stage a demo game just let us know and we can hopefully accommodate you at the show) We're pleased to announce that we have another event that will be running next April at Roll Call in Cranfield, near Milton Keynes - the return of Saga !
This one-day, 3-round event will run on Sunday 7th April, and will cover what many would consider the "classic" Saga books - Age of VIKINGS, Age of INVASIONS, and Age of CRUSADES, with games being played using 6 Point warbands chosen from a 7 Point Roster. Full details of scenarios and other tournament specific rules are now all posted on our website - so shake off those "twix-mas" blues and unleash your inner hairy barbarian by entering Saga @ Roll Call 2024 today! Yes, Roll Call 2024 is back, returning like a triumphant Roman General coming home at the head of a mighty army to the Eternal City, ready to be garlanded for his most recent magnificent campaign of conquest and subjugation in which he succesfully pushed back the barbarians and extended the boundaries of the greatest Empire the world has ever seen, all for the greater Glory of Mighty Rome...
..although in the case of Roll Call we are simply going back to our traditional venue of The Holywell School in Cranfield next April, over the weekend of the 6th & 7th, to do a bit of wargaming (and probably eat some school canteen chips too). This year we will have our usual mix of Big Boys Toys 28mm events plus a roster of smaller scale competitions as well, including: The BHGS Big Boys Toys Events
Other Roll Call Events
We are also working on another event to fill the TTS! tables on Sunday, details to follow shortly. You can now book your place at Roll Call via our new booking site on the Ticket Tailor booking platform. After an unusually lengthy gap, the BHGS FoGR Renaissance rankings have returned to online publication with a newly updated set of rankings covering all events in the previous 12 months.
A quarter-century of 25 players took part this year in a least one FoGR event, with a Burton Club 1-2-3 topping off the leaderboard this time around. The full rankings are posted on the BHGS website |
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