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