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 2026 season are:
| Team | Period 1 | Period 2 | Period 3 |
| Surrey Spartans | Graham Briggs | Terry Shaw | Steve Murton |
| Late Dynastic Egyptian | Early Carthaginian | Classical Greek | |
| Oxbridge | David Fairhurst | Lynda Fairhurst | Ali Shaw |
| Syracusan | Classical Greek | Later Achaemenid Persian | |
| MAWS | Phil Powell | Dave Ruddock | Paul Longmore |
| Later Achaemenid Persian | Thracian | Samnite League | |
| Oxford | Phil Jelly | Chad Pillinger | Andy Kitcher |
| Later Achaemenid Persian | Samnite League | Syracusan | |
| Independents | Keith Pullen | Eddie Warren | |
| Samnite League | Early Roman |
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. |
| 6. | The team army lists should be E-mailed to Darrell Pearce no later than 28 April 2019. |
15mm FOG Ancients Periods 2026
Period One.
No, No, Not the Comfy Chair – The Campaigns of Iphicrates 379 to 349 BCE
800 points
No army may field more than 16 bases of armoured troops
Lydian & Lycian (Only Lycian)
Etruscan, Early Roman and Latin
Italian Hill tribes & Samnite League
Thracian
Classical Greek – 1 BG of Hoplites may be upgraded to armoured and superior as a bodyguard
Syracusan
Kyrenaean Greek – 1 BG of Hoplites may be upgraded to armoured and superior as a bodyguard
Late Dynastic Egyptian – Guard Spearmen may be upgraded to armoured
Early Carthaginian
Later Achaemenid Persian – Any Cavalry, except Guard, may be downgraded to Protected
Allies from these lists only
Period Two.
A Fanatical devotion to the Pope – Condotta Italy 1320-1500 CE
900 points
Condotta Italian in Italy
No more than 16 bases of pike may be fielded – Only Condotta allies allowed – Which may originate from any Condotta state in Italy
Period Three
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
850 points
Any Book 3 American army
Any army that does not have impact foot may choose a Spanish Ally from the list below
(The army cannot have the choice of impact foot from its own list on the date chosen for it, nor may it include allies other than Spanish that deploy impact foot)