The 2026 Competition is now OPEN, please submit your results via the web form

You can see the current standings and previous winners via the links above above.

The SOA Wargames Championship is once again grateful for sponsorship by Hinds Figures whose ranges include Hinchcliffe Models

The Society Wargames Championship rules are simple and encourage you to seek a wide range of opponents and use any set of mutually acceptable rules and scale of armies. Our aim is to make participation as easy as possible. All you have to do is arrange the game and send in the result either through the form provided on this website (preferred) or via email to championship@soa.org.uk.

You will need to know your Society membership number and that of your Opponent.

There is a requirement that you play no more than two games against the same opponent. This is simply to give protection against someone rising to the top through beating a weaker player a large number of times. If you are a competition player then games that within the competition that are between two Society members can readily count in the Society Championship too.

At the end of the year the winner will be declared, be lauded in Slingshot and on this website and receive a prize from our sponsor.
There are also prizes for second and third placed players.
For a year the winner will be entitled to announce themselves as Society of Ancients Wargames Champion at social functions. 

We hope the Championship will encourage members to seek each other out and play games, both with their friendship group and on a wider basis. As an international Society we’d love to have members visiting different countries , playing against each other and telling the Society community how it went. 

We’d also love to see reports of games posted on the Forum pages, and in Slingshot in those cases where games show interesting points about a rule-set, about tactics within the rules or illuminating ancient tactics, if you have good photographs of a game then that would be of interest to our editor too.

So please, find your membership number, select an opponent , agree rules and join in.

SOA Wargames Championship Rules

Eligible Players

Members wishing to be eligible must join the Society of Ancients for the calendar year in which the championship is being run. Only two games may be played against the same opponent.
SOA Championships run from January to December.

Eligible Games

Any game between two players and depicting conflicts between fighting forces prior to 1500AD.  Single person-to-person combat and completely imaginary armies are not eligible.

Authentication of Results

The Championship Organiser must be satisfied that the submitted result is for an eligible game between eligible players.

Results can be submitted by e-mail (to championship@soa.org.uk) or via the web site form. The web form is the preferred method of submission for single games, but competition organisers can send a bulk spreadsheet if needed.

Most members already have an e-mail address registered with the Society, if you have not then ensure that your first result submission attests your email address.

All results must be in the hands of the Championship Organiser within the same calendar year in which they were played, but as soon as possible is preferred.

Calculation and Display of Results

The winner of a game gains 3 points – the loser nothing. Drawn games result in each player gaining 1 point

The total points gained by a competitor will be divided by the square root of the number of games played

The final results will include the player’s score as well as the number of games they have played.

In the event of a tie for first place the player with the most games will be considered the winner – and if this also results in a tie the player who won the most games will be the winner.

Adjudication

The Championship Organiser’s decision as regards eligibility and authentication of results will be final and subject only to the Committee on appeal.