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.
