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For 2019 the BHGS Challenge will again be held in Birmingham alongside UK Games Expo at the NEC over the weekend of 1st and 2nd June.

This gives players a great chance to make a long weekend of The Challenge and take part in the huge range of board and tabletop gaming activities and event alongside the 25,000+ boardgamers and wargamers attending UKGE. Currently we plan to offer the following events, with others potentially being added to the roster as well:

Field of Glory Ancients 15mm
DBMM 15mm
​DBMM 6mm
L'Art de la Guerre 15mm
L'Art de la Guerre 25mm
Mortem et Gloriam 15mm

At The BHGS Challenge there will be one "open" Field of Glory periods using Field of Glory V3.0 rules.

15mm Ancients & Medieval: 800 points, any army from the newly published Books

72" by 48" tables

Games will be 3 hours.

Sat 9:00 to 12:00, 12:45 to 15:45 , 16:00 to 19:00
Sun 9:30 to 12:30, 13:30 to 16:30

The V3 FoG clarifications, errata and list building spreadsheet can be found here.

Umpire: David Fairhurst
List Checker: FoGAMlists@bhgs.org.uk
List Deadline: 23rd May

Book tickets via the UKGE website. As usual, players will also need a weekend pass to attend UKGE as well as their event entry tickets.
https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/bookevents.php?subcat=bhg

Bookings are now open for the BHGS Challenge via the UKGE website. https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/bookevents.php?subcat=bhg

Book tickets via the UKGE website. As usual, players will also need a pass to attend at least the Saturday & Sunday of UKGE as well as their event entry tickets. The expo is open on Friday, and many of the other events and a huge number of open gaming tables are open from Thursday, so those of you planning on making a long weekend of it may wish to book longer UKGE passes to cover Friday or Thursday also. With no "Take That" concert running at the same weekend this year, hotel prices are also considerably cheaper than in recent years, with Premier Inn & Travelodge - branded hotels currently showing as available for around £40/night only 10-15 minutes from the venue.

UKGE also features over 40 other miniatures and boardgame tournaments this year, including X-Wing, Blood Bowl and Star Wars Armada as well as a huge trade show, so there's plenty of opportunity to make this a weekend excursion for your entire club, whatever systems they are currently playing.

Currently we have about a dozen players signed up for the Challenge this year, which puts us within reach of either exceeding or matching last years total of 16

Graham Briggs
Peter Card
Peter Dalby
Chad Pillinger
Steve Murton
David Fairhurst
Linda Fairhurst
BRIAN ESPIE
Phil Powell
steve brown
Paul Bartlett

In order to plan table allocations we're looking to lock in the maximum player numbers fairly soon, so if you are thinking about attending please make sure to book in promptly!

Father Maynard fetch the holy hand grenade

Dave Morrison
John Patrick

Both now added to the list - 3 more to go to match last year!

As of today we have:

Graham Briggs
Peter Card
Peter Dalby
Chad Pillinger
Steve Murton
David Fairhurst
Linda Fairhurst
BRIAN ESPIE
Phil Powell
steve brown
Paul Bartlett
David Morrison
John Patrick

One more for an even number anyone?

Just a reminder, lists due by 23 May

FoGAMlists@bhgs.org.uk
List Deadline: 23rd May

Phil Jelley has pointed out that the UKGE website shows the FoG competition as 900pts, not 800.

Probably needs correcting. Both Phils can't be right ...

It's 800 on the BHGS site and here
It's 800

Signed up so I assume that makes 14?
Regards
Martyn

In case any of our players at the BHGS Challenge have missed it, the arrangements for parking at the NEC have changed this year. It's now £12 per day, £14.40 for 2 days or £21.60 for 3 - however, to get the discounted rate you need to book in advance at https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/carparking.php.

The booking is linked to your car registration so you can't share it!

Just waiting two lists, neither players fault.

john sent a 900point list because that's what it says on the Expo site
Paul Longmore is filling in for me at short notice so there

As soon as I receive these I will publish

Challenge R&R
John Patrick Late Republican Roman
Paul Longmore Medieval Scandinavian
Chad Pillinger Southern Dynasties Chinese
Steve Brown Seleucid
Paul Bartlett Lancastrian
Brian Espie Scots Isles and Highlands
Graham Briggs Dacian
Martyn Simpson Ghaznavid
Dave Morrison Later Hindu
Pete Dalby Yuan
Steve Murton Nikeforian
Peter Card Nikeforian
Lynda Fairhurst Palmyra
David Fairhurst Sciri

Have fun

Thanks Phil - that's what you call an open period! 13 different armies from all 3 books. Should be fun!

The UKGE app, and my ticket, shows a 9:30 start. The BHGS site, which I assume is correct, says 09:00.

Definitely a 9.00 am start!

What were the results

Since you ask so nicely and I have a day off
1st Paul Bartlett 144
2nd Steve Brown 129
3rd Paul Longmore 121
4th Martyn Simpson 108
=4th Graham Briggs 108
6th Brian Espie 102
7th Dave Morrison 97
=8th Steve Murton 94
=8th Pete Dalby 94
10th David Fairhurst 78
11th John Patrick 68
=12th Peter Card 66
=12th Chad Pillenger 66
14th Lynda Fairhurst 39
Really closely fought at the top well done to Paul Bwho took it on the last game
Mine and Lynda's dice were very much against us but a good time was had ,looking forward to next year and a bigger field
David