15mm Ancients League-Field of Glory


Introduction


As part of the National Wargames League, Milton Keynes Wargames Society will again be offering a selection of 15mm Ancients tournaments. This page details the rules to be used for the Field of Glory league. The periods have been carefully chosen to provide a challenging novel wargaming tournament experience at the same time to produce a spectacle for visitors from well known eras of history.

For entry information, visit the National Wargames League Page.

The 15mm Ancients competition is a BHGS Ranking Tournament.

See also 25mm Ancients Tournament and 15mm Renaissance Tournament.

The teams entered for the 2023 season are:

Team Player 1 Player 2 Player 3




Surrey Spartans Terry Shaw Graham Briggs Steve Murton

Hittite Arab Conquest Medieval German
MAWS Phil Powell Paul Longmore Dave Ruddock
Later Mycenaean Arab Conquest Teutonic
Oxbridge Lynda Fairhurst Ali Shaw David Fairhurst
Hittite Maurikian Byzantine Late Polish
Gloucester John Patrick Dave Morrison Keith Pullen
Later Mycenaean Maurikian Byzantine Medieval German
Oxford Graham Roberts Phil Jelly Andy Kitcher
New Kingdom Egyptian Arab Conquest Late Polish
?? Martyn Brawn Paul Westmore Jon Akers
New Kingdom Egyptian Thematic Byzantine Medieval German

General Rules


1. A team consists of three players. A player playing in each of the 3 periods.
2. Rules Field of Glory.
3. Only the armies listed in each of the periods may be selected. This is further limited to the time ranges specified for the periods.
4. An ally may only be selected if it appears in the list of armies for the period.
5. The army size will be 800pts for Periods 1 & 2, 850pts for Period 3.
6. The team army lists should be E-mailed to Darrell Pearce no later than 28 April 2019.

15mm FOG Ancients Periods 2023

Period One.

Troy – 800pts – 1350-1240BCE

No army may field more than 12 bases of Heavy Chariots

Later Mycenaean or Trojan
New Kingdom Egyptian
Mitanni
Syro-Canaanite
Hittite
Middle or Early Neo Assyrian
Early Highland Raiders – Only A maximum of 48 bases of warriors of any type may be protected (16 if used as a foreign allied contingent)

Period Two.

Arab Conquest 850pts – 629-685

Later Pre-Islamic Bedouin
Arab Conquest
Later Sassanid
Maurikian Byzantine
Thematic Byzantine
Christian Nubian
Later Visigoth

Period Three

Teutonic Knights 900pts – 1420 – 1450

All armies must contain at least 2 bases of artillery or battle wagons
No more than half of mounted bases may dismount where/when allowed

Teutonic Knights
Medieval German – No Western (Low Countries) options, only German allies allowed
Hussite
Later Hungarian – No Serbian allies.
Later Polish