SquareBASH! 2026

Friday 30th January to Sunday 1st February

At the Europa Gatwick Hotel

Come and join us at SquareBASH!

For three full days of historical board-wargames and strategy boardgames.

Any game from any publisher on any subject, be it historic, fiction or fantasy!

We will be reserving two large conference rooms for this NEW event, with the potential to accommodate up to 150 delegates. Please register your interest and we will keep you informed and let you know when tickets go on sale.

Ticket price for 3-days gaming: £75.00 to include:-

Reduced delegate B&B room rate (single £50.00 / twin £65.00 / double £65.00). You will receive a delegate code as soon as you have purchased your ticket to be able to reserve a room. There are plenty of rooms available. There are also plenty of other hotels in the Gatwick area.
Complimentary mid-morning & mid-afternoon tea/coffee pastries/cakes/biscuits plus a sandwich and hot chips lunch, on each day, included with the price of your ticket.
Ample free parking.
Bar available in function room, plus on-site restaurant. The Coaching Halt pub 5 mins walk away from hotel with a great bar and restaurant menu.
Full accessibility with lifts for wheelchair users.
Free Prize Draw, with games donated by sponsors.
Bring & Buy stand (bring along your own games to display and sell on!).
Any size table bookable for Mega-Games.
The convention is not aimed at figure wargaming, only board wargaming.
All day gaming until the early hours Fri/Sat/Sun. Last out turn off the lights! The hotel offers 24-hour security to keep your games safe.
You can bring as many games as you like to the convention, from any publisher, though broadly speaking they should be historical/wargame/strategy/sci-fi based. For example, Dune Imperium would be fine, Wingspan probably not. Though there will be no policing of what people are playing we just want it to be an opportunity for people to play these types of games.
There will be an organiser published, this will be in the form of an online spreadsheet that everyone can access, like a google doc. We plan to launch this two or three months before the convention, it will give all attendees chance to post up games they are bringing and wanting opponents to sign up for, it will include details like name of game, how many players needed, time and day of proposed game.
There will be a game finder system at the event, which will allow people who don’t have anything arranged to get into a game that still has spaces on the day.
Sponsors and Supporters.