Roll Call will return to our usual venue in Cranfield on the weekend of 4th & 5th April 2020. - rescheduled to 24th and 25th October
We're currently finalising details for the themes and periods, with a view to having tickets on sale by the time Warfare comes around.
Full details will be announced when its all sorted and ready to go.
MeG Theme Details
MeG Organiser: Nik Gaukroger - nikgaukroger@blueyonder.co.uk
Any army from Mandate of Heaven, Three Kingdoms, Warring States & Han, Tang, Ghenghis, India, Land of the Samurai and South East Asia.
10,000 points.
List checker: James McMeiken James.mcmeiken@gmail.com ;please submit list as the entire army builder spreadsheet (not just the print page).
List deadline: 27th March 2020
Game timings: 3 hours; when time is called finish the phase you are playing and then the game ends.
Can this be pinned ? When all the info is at hand modify the first post.
Your wish, etc. ...
If you let me know when tickets are available I will email the UK competition players to give them the heads up.
tickets are now on sale.
Looks like more slots required
ROLL CALL 2020
If you missed a ticket but want to go on the reserve list please message Ray Duggins or Robin Spence.
Ade N
Michael B
Phillip N
Will D
Peter C
Robin S
Laurence D
Nicholas G
Paul C
Simon E
Phillip P
Richard J
Lance F
Roger P
Adrian P
Pete E
Simon C
Simon C
I have a spare ticket ... I'll message you Ray /Robin
Ok will spread the word
gone already
You'll have to put up with me moaning about my dice.
*** Anyone looking for a ticket to Roll Call ***
I can't go
Ray
Ummm what to take to a crossbow fest :o Ummm maybe more Crossbows ;D errr I dont have any :-\
Powerbow! ;D
Quote from: Robin on January 31, 2020, 08:04:54 AM
Ummm what to take to a crossbow fest :o Ummm maybe more Crossbows ;D errr I dont have any :-\
Something with ArmHrs is a nice counter ...
Folks
As a result of Sharp Practice not proving viable in 2020 we've been able to release additional tickets for a number of periods at Roll Call this year. The dozen or so individuals who had already asked to go onto the waitlist have all already been offered (and have taken up) their places, so the additional places have been opened up to general sale and can be booked using the following link.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roll-call-2020-april-45th-cranfield-tickets-74026056929?aff=release
We are still discussing with the school whether there is other space we can have, but they have been very reluctant to open up classrooms for us since, well, we left a lot of clearing up for the caretaker the one year we did use the classrooms as well as the main halls and since then they've not been keen to let us expand into classrooms for understandable reasons.
The BHGS Challenge, BHGS LGT Teams and Britcon are all on sale via the BHGS website at http://www.bhgs.org.uk/bhgs-events.html, none of which currently are anticipated to have any venue capacity issues for any ruleset we are currently offering.
Two lists in. Don't feel you have to wait 'till the last minute boys.
Current list of entries:
1. Adrian Nash
2. Philip Nash
3. Will Denham
4. Peter Cross
5. Robin Spence
6. Laurence Donohoe
7. Nik Gaukroger
8. Paul Cummins
9. Philip Powell
10. Richard Jeffrey Cook
11. Lance Flint
12. Roger Pitfield
13. Adrian Pitfield
14. Pete Entwistle
15. Simon Clarke
16. Jason Broomer
17. Mark Spratt
18. Matthew Heywood
19. Bruce Rollett
There is ONE space left which would bring us to an even number.
Surely there is somebody out there who could take the remaining ticket and make us an even number.
We now have 20 players.
As I am now the 20th player, and this is my 1st post on this forum, I think this is a good time to start playing at least once a week until the tournament and reading those rules again. :)
Good plan
Entrants list:
1. Adrian Nash
2. Philip Nash
3. Will Denham
4. Peter Cross
5. Robin Spence
6. Laurence Donohoe
7. Nik Gaukroger
8. Paul Cummins
9. Philip Powell
10. Richard Jeffrey Cook
11. Lance Flint
12. Roger Pitfield
13. Adrian Pitfield
14. Pete Entwistle
15. Simon Clarke
16. Jason Broomer
17. Mark Spratt
18. Matthew Heywood
19. Bruce Rollett
20. Doreen Taylor
Please note info update:
List checker: James McMeiken James.mcmeiken@gmail.com ;please submit list as the entire army builder spreadsheet (not just the print page).
List deadline: 27th March 2020
Note - Sam Street is Player 21
I'll transfer to ReG to keep it all even
thanks
Simon
List sent
An Important Message from The British Historical Gaming Society:
As you will no doubt be aware the UK Government has today considereably strengthened its advice in relation to the current Coronaviris outbreak, and is now recommending that everyone in the UK acts to reduce all forms of social contact as much as possible.
In line with these recommendations, and in order to prioritize the health and well-being of all our gamers this year's Roll Call event will not now take place this April.
We will be speaking to the venue in the coming days to see if it might be possible to reschedule Roll Call for later this year however given the uncertainties involved in this, both for the venue and for individual players the BHGS team have taken the decision to issue full refunds (via the Eventbrite platform) to all currently signed up players within the next couple of days. Please contact us if you do not recieve notification of a refund by the end of this week.
BHGS Events @ London GT
We have also been notified in the last few hours by the main organiser of the London GT event scheduled for June that they too will be following UK Government advice and postponing the LGT event until September 26th-27th. Our current expectation is that all of the historical events running under the BHGS umbrella currently scheduled to run at the LGT this year will also be postponed to this date, depending on umpire and theme organiser availability.
Anyone who has bought a ticket for events at the LGT will shortly be sent an email by the LGT organising team detailing how these changes impact them and what to do if they can't make the new date. The full announcement from the LGT has been posted on the LGT Facebook page.
The BHGS Challenge @ UK Games Expo
The UKGE organisers have this afternoon posted on Facebook that they ae consulting with their venue partners and plan to make an announcement about this year's event on Tuesday 17th March at 6pm, which players signed up are advised to look out for.
Britcon 2020
For the rest of the year, our current hope remains that we will be able to stage Britcon in Manchester at the beginning of August largely as planned, however any decision to go ahead will only be taken if there are significant, positive changes to current UK Government advice regarding social distancing before June of this year.
If it becomes necessary to cancel Britcon, all paid bookings for both traders and players will be refunded in full.
These are challenging times for all of us, but we are sure you will all agree that putting the health of you, your families, friends and colleagues first is far more important than gaming at this precise moment, and it is this sentiment which is informing the difficult decisions we are all having to make at this point in time.
We thank you for your understanding, and look forward to seeing all of you across the table at some point later this year (most probably with several newly painted amies...).
The BHGS Team
BHGS are now proposing that this tournament be held on October 24/25th at the same venue.
Richard
Dates updated.
The UK-wide adoption of "social distancing" in response to the Coronavirus outbreak has already led to many wargames events being postponed, including some of those hosted (or co-hosted) by the BHGS.
With all of the entries for Roll Call now refunded and with both the LGT and UKGE events resheduled we've been looking at how best to balance our desire to help you all get out and get gaming again as soon as possible against the challenges all of us currently face in terms of making any sort of forward committments while the current - and potentially lengthy - period of 'social distancing' is in effect across the UK.
It's a complex problem, but where we've ended up is with the following (hopefully) clear and simple plan;
The BHGS committment to you is to:
offer as many gaming opportunities this year as we possibly can,
hold open the posibility of running the events we organise for as long as is sensible...
... but also commit to cancel them as early as possible should it become obvious at any stage that any of them are not going to be viable,
continue to offer 100% refunds on any events we operate and then cancel,
continue to offer 100% refunds on cancellations for any individual wishing to drop out for personal reasons, at any time prior to the event taking place.
What does this mean for each individual event ?
Roll Call
We've now secured new dates for Roll Call at the end of the Autunm half term with the Holywell school venue, meaning that this year's event will now run over the weekend of October 24rd-25th.
Tickets will go back on sale again in a few weeks time once we've sorted things out with umpires and the like.
October is a long way away... but anyway, our latest 'decision date" for Roll Call will be mid September. If there is any risk whatsoever to the viability of the event at that point in time we will cancel and refund everyone again, and look to return in 2021.
In summary we're doing everything we can to offer you as many chances to get some gaming in under a BHGS banner before the end of this year, and we're also making sure we do so in a way which doesn't take any chances with anyone's health and wellbeing - nor with anyone's finances.
We sincerely hope to see you across the gaming table as soon as it is safe for all of us - and the NHS - to do so.
The BHGS Committee