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Peterborough Crown Tourney Results

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  • Overall Winner: Colin Golder
  • Best General: Brandon Lovewell
  • Most Violent: Rich Baker (3 way tie broken on total score)
  • Wooden Spoon: Rich Turner
  • Best Painted: Colin Golder

TO’s whimsy awards:

(note, these will not be the same next time, so don’t think you can wheedle yourself into an award that way 😄 )

  • Best List Lore: Ian Porter
  • TO’s Pet (most helpful list submission): Hamzaan Bridle
  • List That Made Me Laugh Like A Drain: Robin Farndon (note, I’m predominantly an AS player, first sight of a Puma S will make ANYONE laugh)

Massive thanks to everyone who came along and made it an excellent time, to Leisure Games for prize support, Sam Qaisar and my wife for brownies, biscuits and sausage rolls, Dan Phillips for risking his wife’s wrath as the not-needed spare player, everyone who helped setup and tear down and the fabulous Lesley at the venue for feeding us.

Peterborough Crown Tourney Prizes

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I’d like to take a moment to thank Mike and the folks at Leisure Games of Finchley, who have very generously donated some gift vouchers as prizes for Saturday’s event.

They’ve always been great supporters of the community and BattleTech in general, and it’s a very kind gesture. Please do repay them by spending even more money with them, as they are usually very active in getting the latest stock.

Peterborough Crown Tourney – Player Pack

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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.

About the Crown Tourney series

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.

Peterborough Crown Tourney

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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.

About the Crown Tourney series

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.

Periphery Assault 2025 Aftermath

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Whew. All finished.

Winners:

  • Overall Winner: Richard Cook (Snord’s Irregulars)
  • Most Violent (most kill/crippled points): Bartosz Debski (Clan Jade Falcon)
  • Best Tactician (most objective points): Bob Sawyers (Wolf’s Dragoons)
  • Wooden Spoon: Gary Condra (Threshold Strikers – Mercs)
  • Best Painted: Colin Golder (Free Raselhague Republic)

Richard (as overall winner) was ineligible for the Most Violent and Best Tactician awards, otherwise he’d have won Most Violent by a country mile as well.

The results spreadsheet is here if anyone is curious (he says, somewhat nervously hoping he triple-checked the logic and formulae properly – please don’t hurt me if I goofed!)

Huge thanks to Dan, Josh, Bob and Richard for help with setup and teardown, my wife Anne and Sam for cookies, gingerbread ‘Mechs and chocolate muffins, Lesley at the venue for keeping us all fed and watered, and to Ed and the folks at Buy The Same Token for making sure each player had one of their very sweet rear arc templates.

Please note that the BTST links are affiliate links, so if you wish to support the podcast’s recurring monthly costs (subscription to Riverside.FM among other things), don’t hesitate to use them.

See you next year!

(And look out for a catchup episode with Bob just as soon as he gets back from Parts North.)

Periphery Assault Player Pack

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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.