The player pack for the Peterborough Crown Tourney has been updated. See here.
Changes:
The Peterborough Crown Tourney is a listbuilder “Classic” BattleTech tournament using the BattleMech manual rules, at the George Alcock Centre in Stanground, Peterborough on Saturday, May 2nd 2026. The event is being jointly run by this podcast and Peterborough Wargames Club. Provisionally, you will play three games over the course of the day, and your force will be 8000BV, any faction, Civil War era. The player pack is based on the excellent one for Southern Assault 2025, and can be downloaded here.
Hopefully, the Peterborough Crown Tourney will be the first of a series around the country – we’re trying to fine tune a set of listbuilder rules for BT for those who prefer that style of tournament. If you or your club are willing to put on a similar event, we’ll be more than happy to help, advise and/or listen to your input – just drop FleetfootMike a DM on the UK Discord.
The Peterborough Crown Tourney is a listbuilder “Classic” BattleTech tournament using the BattleMech manual rules, at the George Alcock Centre in Stanground, Peterborough on Saturday, May 2nd 2026. The event is being jointly run by this podcast and Peterborough Wargames Club. Provisionally, you will play three games over the course of the day, and your force will be 8000BV, any faction, Civil War era. The rules pack will be based on the excellent one for Southern Assault 2025, and will contain certain restrictions on choice. It will be up before (hopefully well before) the end of March.
The deadline for list submissions (and entries) will be Tuesday April 28th, to allow the organisers time to check and approve lists.
The event is in the TFTP diary here, and the direct link to sign up is here. Admission is £15. (Sadly, our venue put their prices up, so we have had to follow suit. There is, however, free tea and coffee, a staffed and well-stocked bar with soft drinks and beer (low-alcohol as well) and very reasonably priced breakfast and lunch.)
For those considering staying over the night before, the nearest decent hotels are the Premier Inn Hampton, which is currently about £63 for a single for the Friday night, or the Premier Inn City Centre (about £65). The latter is on the number 5 bus route to the George Alcock.
Hopefully, the Peterborough Crown Tourney will be the first of a series around the country – we’re trying to fine tune a set of listbuilder rules for BT for those who prefer that style of tournament. If you or your club are willing to put on a similar event, we’ll be more than happy to help, advise and/or listen to your input – just drop FleetfootMike a DM on the UK Discord.
It’s been a while, for which I apologise. I got hit with the cold from … hrm.. what’s a good BattleTech metaphor? The jungles of Old Kentucky? Either way, I picked up a cold from the trip down to one of my contracts’ Christmas bash just before Christmas, which settled in with a vengeance till late January. I managed to record a podcast between Christmas and the New Year, in a brief lull between sneezing my head off and keeping myself awake all night coughing up my lungs.
Not a fun start to the year, and, being a contractor, I don’t get paid for being sick, so the time since has been spent catching up on paid work so I can afford the Corporation Tax bill 😀
Still – I’m back. The podcast is still in the editing stage, but I’m actually about caught up with the stuff that pays the bills, so expect that this week. As a warmup for that, I’ve just updated the events calendar. If there’s any entries for that or the directory that I’ve missed, please let me know and I’ll make sure it’s up and you get a mention in the upcoming episode.
Happy New Year, belatedly!
Mike
P.S. expect dates for Periphery Assault 2026 and another tournament from Tales from the Periphery real soon now!
You can now download this here.
Event details are here, and the direct link to sign up is here
For those considering staying over the night before, the nearest decent hotels are the Premier Inn Hampton, which is currently about £43 for a single for the Friday night, or the Premier Inn City Centre (about £51). The latter is on the number 5 bus route to the George Alcock.
You can find us here (Hall 4, ZZ).
Just done some tidying up – you should now find that the podcast now displays links to Amazon and Spotify as well as Apple Podcasts if you prefer those means of absorbing your audio entertainment.
It’s also up on Pocket Casts and Pandora (US only), but the WP theme won’t show those on each episode.
Having got back from the BattleTech English Nationals with two hot podcast recordings burning a hole in my pocket (semi-literally, they were on the iPhone!), I arrived home to this…
In case you’re curious, that’s our house top left (click on image for news report)!
We’re fine, although some of our downstairs flooring isn’t, and there’s still a massive hole in the road outside our front window. Unfortunately, I shut down the house webserver (on which this site lives) for safety overnight on Sunday, and the boot SSD decided not to come back on Monday morning. We are now back up on a new, faster server (actually a VPS in the cloud) and I’m just troubleshooting the last of the issues with the recovery.
Hoping to get the first of the podcasts up tonight (Weds 28th).
I have added the UK/Irish dates for this to the Events calendar. Sadly we don’t have exact times for some of the events yet, but you can probably safely assume they are evening events. If your club or store is involved with any of these events, please drop me a line at info@talesfromtheperiphery.org.uk if you have any more details.
Thanks to the excellent folks at the Valhalla Club, we now have a “booth” in their podcast area: it’s https://discord.gg/thevalhallaclub.