Name: Britcon 2024
Start: 2024-08-09T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-08-11T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Nottingham Trent University City Campus

The UK's Biggest Historical Wargames Convention, at the heart of the Lead Belt , Britcon 2024 will take place over the weekend of Friday 9th to Sunday 11th August 2024
Britcon encompasses three days of competition, social and organised play together with a two-day trade show, and in 2024 year will run over the Friday-Sunday of the weekend of 9-11th August, maintaining its longstanding "2nd weekend in August" date in the UK wargaming calendar.

The venue at Nottingham Trent is one of the largest and most modern (ie well lit and ventilated!) spaces that an UK Wargames convention take splace in, allowing us to stage all of the main competition events together in a single space as well as opening up a significant expansion into more non-competition gaming and a much larger trade show floor as well.
The City Campus buildings are right in the heart of Nottingham, and are well served by multiple transport links from across the UK and beyond. The 3-day format of the event has always been attractive to international players, with Nottingham being on the mainline from the St Pancras Eurostar Terminus, and the venue itself having a tram stop that connects to nearby East Midlands Airport right outside the front door.

This year Britcon will welcome competitors in over 20 different historical competitions and rulesets, with a number of "flagship" tournaments headed by the official Warlord Games Bolt Action GT. Even more rulesets will be on table at Nottingham's official Too Fat Lardies Games Day, with a host of Lardy favourites (including Rich and the team!) on full display. The East Midlands Megagames Group will also be running one of their "special events" and we have a number of other things in the pipeline too !
Weekend participants have the opportunity to stay on-site in our student-priced B&B accommodation - there is also a student-priced onsite bar too - allowing our gaming period to run over a variety of different timelines and formats across either a full the "Friday night + 8-8 gaming Saturday + more games on Sunday" timeline, or more traditional 1 and 2 day events and formats. In 2023 accommodation is bookable direct from the BHGS along with your gaming event ticket
This year the Britcon Trade Show will again run from 10-4 on Saturday and 10-2 on Sunday. The 2023 show featured over 25 traders and demo games including companies such as Warlord Games, Forged in Battle, Perry Miniatures, The Assault Group, Too Fat Lardies, The Pit and many others. We will again be running a ‘Startup Trader’ Zone showcasing small independent vendors who are new to market - expect to see a lot of 3D printing going on!