15mm Ancients League- Morten et Gloriam
After the success of introducing a Morten et Gloriam Ancients League for 2017 to the National Wargames League. We are to continue with the standard three player teams for the 2026 season.
The teams entered for the 2026 season are:
| Team | Period 1 | Period 2 | Period 3 |
| Wychbold 1 | Matt McVeigh | Simon Hall | Malcolm Barnfield |
| Normans | Muromachi Samurai | Spartan | |
| Wychbold A | James “Hammy” Hamilton | Keith Spedding | Craig Davis |
| Medieval Welsh | Rajput Indian | Lowland Thracians | |
| Extension Request | Paul Cummins | Stephen Stead | David ‘The War Dog’ Parish |
| Anglo Danish | Rajput Indian | Spartan | |
| The Wanderers | Phillip Powell | Peter Bettany | Gareth Evans |
| Norman | Muromachi Peasant Uprising | Spartan | |
| MISOGs | Laurence ‘Sid’ Donohoe | Peter Entwistle | Robin Spence |
| Feudal Scots | Early Franks | Spartan | |
| Sandpit | Richard Jeffery-Cook | Nik Gaukroger | Lance Flint |
| Anglo-Norman | Late Classical Indian | Lycian |
General Rules
1. A team consists of three players.
2. One player in each of the three periods offered.
3. Rules: Morten et Gloriam.
4. Only armies listed below may be used.
5. The army size. Please see period details.
6. Scale 15mm.
7. Allies are allowed if in the list of allowed armies also features within the allowed competition lists for that period. If you are unsure, please ask the competition organiser.
8. The team army lists should be E-mailed to List Checker no later than date . Payment for entry fees can be sent via PayPal to the same address.
9.Any queries about lists or rules should be directed to MeG List and Rule Queries
Period 1
1067 and all that.
Lists from William I coronation to Death of Henry I1067-1135.
Maximus 10000 points from any of the following lists and their allies within these dates.
| Norman | * | x | |||
| Anglo- Danish | * | # | • | ^ | |
| Anglo-Norman | * | # | + | • | × |
| Early Welsh | * | + | • | ^ | |
| Early Scots | * | + | ^ | ||
| Norse Irish | * | • | ^ | ||
| Breton | x | ||||
| Medieval Welsh | * | + | • | ^ | |
| Feudal Scots | + | ^ | |||
| Feudal French | + | × | |||
| Early Medieval Danish | * | # | ^ | ||
| Post Viking Scandinavian | * | # | ^ |
An Anglo-Danish or Anglo-Norman force may be declared ‘Rebel English’ and then a geographic region:-
South Coast x
The Marches•
1067-1085 Wild Edric – may take a ‘Wild Hunt’ unit of 4 x Mounted Superior Tribal Loose Unprotected Charging Lancer Melee Expert
The Fens^
Hereward The Wake 1068-1085 – May choose swamps as a terrain type.
Northumbria#^
Morcar (1067-1087) or Edgar Aethelng (1067-1126)
Cornish & South West 1067—1070
May take 2 x Norse Irish allies as Harold Godwinson’s sons
| * | May take Anglo-Danish allies |
| # | May take Scottish Allies |
| + | May take Anglo-Norman Allies |
| • | May take Welsh Allies |
| × | May take Feudal French Allies |
| ^ | May take Early Medieval Danish or Post Viking Scandinavian allies |
Period 2
MeG Fanatics
Any list that contains fanatics, either in their main list or allies.
This may also include Tibetan lists where fanatics can only usually be used in scenarios.
Suggested lists, but there may be more that can take fanatic allies!
| 2208 | Jewish |
| 2211 | Jewish Revolt |
| 2301 | Highland Gallic |
| 2302 | Lowland Gallic |
| 2309 | Early Franks |
| 2515 | Spartacus Slave Revolt |
| 2707 | Spanish – Celtiberian |
| 2713 | First Servile War Slave Revolt |
| 4606 | Sohei |
| 4609 | Muromachi Peasant Uprising |
| 4610 | Ikko Ikki |
| 4705 | Rajput Indian |
| 5108 | Peoples Crusade |
| 5109 | First Crusade |
| 5111 | Early Outremer States |
| 5113 | Outremer States |
| 5117 | Later Crusader |
| 5119 | Seventh Crusade |
| 5214 | Order of St John |
| 6103 | Muisca Confederation |
| 6112 | Chanka |
| 6114 | Inca Empire |
| 6306 | Hawaiian |
Period 3
‘You wanted to do a “hoplite” theme – hope on!’
All armies must have a minima if 24 bases of Hoplite with spears.
Armies and enemies of the Greeks, Medes and Persians.
Lists from 670 BCE to 357 BCE. Any ally within this date period may be selected.
| 1105 | Early Libyan |
| 1306 | Phoenician |
| 1307 | Early Arab |
| 1308 | Mannaian |
| 1311 | Chaldean Babylonian |
| 1312 | Later Vedic Indian |
| 1313 | Later Elamite |
| 1402 | Early Iranian |
| 1403 | Later Israelite |
| 1404 | Cimmerian |
| 1405 | Urartian |
| 1407 | Kushite Egyptian |
| 1408 | Lydian |
| 1409 | Later Sargonid Assyrian |
| 1410 | Saitic Egyptian |
| 1411 | Assyrian Babylonian |
| 1412 | Neo-Babylonian Empire |
| 1413 | Median Empire |
| 2101 | Early Scythian or Saka |
| 2102 | Thracian Lowland Tribes |
| 2103 | Paeonian |
| 2201 | Cyrenean Greek |
| 2202 | Meroitic Kushite |
| 2203 | Late Period Egyptian |
| 2401 | Classical Greek |
| 2402 | Thracian Hill Tribes |
| 2403 | Spartan |
| 2404 | Early Macedonian |
| 2405 | Illyrian |
| 2406 | Mercenary Greek |
| 2407 | Later Spartan |
| 2501 | Early Roman or Latin |
| 2502 | Italian Hill Tribes |
| 2503 | Umbrian |
| 2504 | Etruscan |
| 2505 | Magna Graecia |
| 2506 | Early Campanian |
| 2507 | Apulian |
| 2508 | Bruttian |
| 2509 | Lucanian |
| 2510 | Camillan Roman |
| 2511 | Samnite |
| 2601 | Achaemenid Persian – Royal Army |
| 2602 | Achaemenid Persian – Satrapal Army |
| 2603 | Mountain Indian |
| 2604 | Classical Indian |
| 2605 | Later Achaemenid Persian |
| 2701 | Libyan (not Garamantes) |
| 2702 | Sicel |
| 2703 | Siciliot Greek |
| 2704 | Early Carthaginian |
| 2705 | Sardinian |
| 2706 | Syracusan |
| 2801 | Asiatic Greek |
| 2802 | Lycian |
| 2803 | Bithynian |