Art De La Guerre

[madaxeman]

With the festive break now just a distant memory the BHGS are pleased to announce that our full roster of events for 2020 are now open for bookings, with tickets now released for both The BHGS Challenge (30-31st May @ The NEC Birmingham) and Britcon (7-9th August, Manchester), adding to those already onsale for The London GT BHGS Historical Teams at the end of June, and of course the almost-sold-out Roll Call coming up this April.

Britcon has a comprehensive roster of events this year, including:
• DBA 1 day event (Saturday)
• Kings of War - 2-day event (Sat/Sun)
• L'Art del la Guerre 15mm 7-game 3-day event (trimed back by one game for a more civilized weekend by popular request)
• L'Art de la Guerre 25mm 5-game 2-day event
• Mortem et Gloriam 15mm 6-game 3-day event
• Renatio et Gloriam 6-game 3-day event
• Bolt Action 28mm - supported by Warlord Games
• DBMM 15mm 6-game 3-day event
• Epic Armageddon
• Field of Glory: AM 6-game 3-day event
• Saga 25mm 2-day event (Sat/Sun)

15mm Ancients - Two Themes - one Competition!

The 15mm event will run with 7 games over the weekend, (Friday night, 3 games on Saturday and 3 games on Sunday) with;
Rounds 1-3 being played with armies from the Ancient, Roman and Dark Ages lists (1-171) plus the American lists (excluding the Conquistador Option post 1519 for the Texcalan army #273)
Rounds 5-7 being played using lists from the Feudal-American lists (172-283).
Round 4 is played using either the early or late theme, the choice being given to the lower-placed player after round 3
Allies must be taken from the same set of lists as the main list
All armies are 200 points
Any dateline is allowed for these lists, however no Knights are allowed in the early period. This means that lists 128, 134, 148 and 152 (and any others we've missed that you can find!) cannot include Medium or Heavy mounted or foot Knights.
If Knights are 'optional' in a list in a given dateline you can chose not to take them but still take other options valid in that dateline. If they are compulsary in specific datelines however, those entire options may not be chosen.
Standard sized tables of 120cm x 80cm. Players must bring their own terrain pieces

25mm Event
1 list, any army which includes at least 1 mounted 'actual' Knight (i.e. Medium or Heavy Knight unit, but excluding Cataphracts).
25mm periods is for armies based on '25mm bases' with 60mm base widths. Other figure scales on these bases are totally acceptable as long as they look nice
200 points
6x4 tables

Tickets are also selling strongly for The London GT BHGS Historical Teams, where we have events for the following systems on offer:
• FoG A/M (team of 3)
• L'Art de La Guerre (team of 3)
• Mortem et Gloriam (Singles : The MeG World Championships)
• Renatio at Gloriam (Singles : The ReG World Championships)
• DBMM (team of 3)
• To The Strongest! (singles, Sunday only)

Finally, we have only a handful of places left for Roll Call this year across the TTS!, FoGR and Bataille Empire systems - so if you are thinking about entering any of these events, best be quick!

As always, full details on our upcoming events are available on our website at www.bhgs.org.uk or via our Facebook page www.facebook.com/TheBHGS

We look forward to seeing you at one of our events throughout this year
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[madaxeman]

Following the UK Government's announcement earlier this week of a provisional timeline for easing the UK-wide lockdown, it has now become apparent that any easing of social distancing rules in the UK will be a lengthy and gradual process.

The "best case" scenario laid out this week would still only see limited, socially distanced openings of non-essential leisure facilities by July at the very earliest - a scenario which makes it impossible to envisage how an event like Britcon, which relies upon large numbers of strangers travelling from across the country to spend many hours in an enclosed space interacting face-to-face with one another from a few feet apart across a gaming table, would be permitted (or indeed would be safe to stage) just a few weeks later in early August.

As a result the BHGS Committee have taken the decision to cancel this year's Britcon.

The event will not be rescheduled to later in the year, so our next edition will be held in Summer 2021 - most probably in a new venue, as the Barnes Wallis building is (currently) due to be demolished at the end of July 2021.

The BHGS does fortunately have cash reserves sufficient to take the financial hit of cancelling the event and so we will be issuing full refunds to all of our registered players over the next few days. Registered players should therefore be seeing email notification of refunds coming through soon, and then the refund amount hitting their credit cards a few days later just as soon as we can work through the admin involved in doing so.

We had also delayed sending out any invoices to any of our traders for stand space this year's event, so none of those traders will end up out of pocket either as a result of the cancellation.

Our next events are at the LGT in September and the rescheduled Roll Call in October, and so if there are any updates on either we will make sure to let you know as soon as possible.

Do let us know if you have any questions which we've not managed to answer here already, otherwise we sincerely hope to see you next year at Britcon 2021.

Regards

The BHGS Britcon Team
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[lionelrus]

So sad! So , see you at warfare!
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