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Advanced Squad Leader is a tactical level World War Two board game. Played over three to four hours, this game successfully recreates combined arms company level land action from all theatres in this conflict. The ASL tournament will consist of five rounds played over three days.
Experience the epic clash of champions at Call to Glory 2026, a premier Age of Sigmar Matched Play Event! Over two thrilling days and five intense rounds, our valiant players will battle for honour and glory.
At Call to Glory, we exalt every facet of the hobby, from crafting exquisitely painted and thematic armies to ensuring your opponents revel in an unforgettable experience, win or lose!
Join us for an unforgettable celebration of skill, sportsmanship, and sheer determination!
Warhammer Age of Sigmar Pitched Battle rules from the latest edition, General’s Handbook & FAQs will be used at this event.
Blood Bowl is back at Cancon for the triumphant third time! Join us, new players and old, for Capital Bowl 2026, a two-day no-holds-barred resurrection tournament
This year we’re increasing TVs to 115, that’s right, 1,150,000 gold to spend for every coach.
As with previous years, we’re running the official Matched Play guide, with rules and tiers detailed in the 2026 Capital Bowl players’ pack
We’re also embracing Tourplay (that’s right, no more old boomer straining his eyes on Excel) cos that’s what all the cool kids are using these days
Bolt Action returns to Cancon in 2026!
2025’s tournament organisers, Ian and Julian will reprise their roles for the sophomore year of 3rd Edition Bolt Action at Cancon 2026. A full player’s pack will be released soon, but in the meantime we can confirm the event will be 5 rounds at 1200 points.
Forces to be selected from the 3rd Edition ‘Armies of’ books, (including Germany, USA, Great Britain, Soviet Union), 3rd Edition Rulebook (Japan only), and the official Warlord PDFs for the minor nations.
All other information will be contained in the player’s pack.
Single nation, 600 point fleet, open format, two games a day, unique ship participation gift.
Do you have what it takes to become the unofficial Daimyo of the Downunderverse? Given you only have to win a small event of an indi game that you can’t even buy in this country any more, your odds are better than you think! Please note the $0 prize pool is a cunning ruse. There will be prizes, but I’m not having you guys pay.
Join us for a one day Bushido Tournament where the battles will be tense, the Ki Tests will be Exposed, and the real Victory Points will be the friends we make along the way!
The prize pool amount is going towards a CGS Dragon trophy.
All products, players and consumables kindly donated by Planet Earth
The Conquest annual returns!
Cancon is a part of the World Series for Conquest and will put the best Conquest players from far and wide against one another in the signature of the event of the year!
The DBA tournament will be contested over two days with six rounds per day starting at 9.00am and scheduled to finish at approx. 5.00pm. There will be trophies for first, second, third place, and junior champion (best performed under 18 if present), based on the combined scores over the 2 days. Also trophies for the Magister Militum (best adjusted score), and the Grand Maurice (best performance at DBA tournaments over the past 12 months). Additional trophies for the Executioner Award (most elements destroyed in a single game), Sacker of Camps (most enemy camps sacked), Sackee of Camps (most own camps lost), Barely a Scratch (fewest losses over 12 rounds), Just a Fleshwound (greatest losses over 12 rounds), and Most Enemy Generals killed.
For Day 1, (Saturday 24th January 2026), armies can only be selected from Sections 1 and 2.
For Day 2 (Sunday 25th January 2026) armies can only be selected from Sections 3 and 4.
For each day the same 12 element army will be used in each round. This means that swapping optional elements will not be permitted. The 12 elements may include approved allies appropriate to each list. There will be no dismounting – troops eligible for dismounting must be specified as either mounted or dismounted in your list.
Rules: DBA v3.0 (including any official amendments released by the author).
Scoring:
Camps must have camp followers (CF) or be garrisoned by one of your army’s 12 elements. If either of these conditions is not met then the camp will be considered undefended.
All figures should be appropriately based, painted and recognizably depict the troops they represent. Figures are to be based for 15mm scale (i.e. 40mm frontage).
Game duration is 1 hour, with the next round commencing at most, 15 minutes after the scheduled finish of the previous round.
Playing area will be 70cm x 70cm mats. Players are to provide their own terrain. Players are strongly encouraged to be creative with terrain building and depiction.
Players can also register for a single day’s play, nominating either the Saturday or Sunday.
How-To-Enter
You can only enter the DBA competition through the CGS CanCon website, Canberra Games Society (cgs.asn.au)
Email the organiser by Friday 16 January 2026 with your army lists (detailing the 12 elements to be used) and date (for aggression purposes).
Any queries regarding the DBA tournament should be directed to the organiser: Peter Spitz using dba.at.cancon@gmail.com
This tournament runs for two days at the following times:
DBMM is on again for Cancon 2026, so dust off your figures, dice and rules and prepare to do battle. It is a 400 army point, 15mm scale competition with four games to be conducted over 2 days using DBMM version 2.1 rules. There will be no night attacks and no games will be considered to be civil wars. Players are to submit one 400 point army list from any of the four DBMM Army List books by email before 10th January 2025. Army lists can include points designated for stratagems (army lists are not to exceed 400 points) and the player can choose which stratagem (up to the point value designated) will be used for each game during stage 1 of deployment. Players are to provide their own terrain.
Army lists and any questions may be submitted to Craig by email to <cav017@gmail.com>. Limited spare rules, armies and terrain may be available but will need to be requested early. Players are also welcome to play for a single day if they cannot play for both days.
The Battle in the Capital! Canberra hosts the Australian Nationals again, who will be crowned the great of greats? Which state takes the bragging rights?
Not interested in Knife fighting at the top? Come along anyway and have a blast playing for fun in the mid card. Event is open to all players and skill levels, loan armies available for those needing to travel, still getting their kit together and even those just wanting to dip their toes in the water and try out a new game system.
Armies will 100 Dynamic Points with forces drawn from any current Mid War book including the Pacific. Limited use of Wild Cards allowed, check player pack for details.
Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of Britain, was the one major German plan of the Second
World War that never actually happened. Indeed the pre-requisites set by Hitler, such as
control of the skies, were never achieved, although unknown to them at the time the
Luftwaffe came very close. Another key pre-requisite was sea control which the Germans
were never able to achieve regardless of a comprehensive sea mining operation to the
waters of eastern England and Scotland.
This one-day campaign will be played at Cancon 26 and charts the first three days
Unternehmen Seelöwe as a three-game Early War narrative event using the Version 4 rules augmented with conversions from Battlefronts 4th Ed Special Rules.
More information will be available closer to Cancon to registered players.
Night Flames is on again!
Late War, 65 points, only tracks, wheels or wings.
No ground mounts artillery or infantry.
Three games x 60 minutes each.
This ticket is usable for both entering as a stand alone event, or as an add-on. (It is the same price in both cases)
Glory is Fleeting Napoleonic will be at Cancon again in 2026.
As usual it will be a 5 round tournament (2 rounds on days one and two and 1 round on day three)
Army sizes are 1000 points
We will be using the Glory is Fleeting Napoleonic Rules and Lists v1.
The figure scale is 15/18mm figures.
Loan armies are available.
Guild Ball tournament in the nations capital.
Standard OPD rules apply.
Painted armies preferred.
45 min +5 min death clock.
Australia’s Infinity Nationals Event and possibly a sanctioned CB Satellite event.
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Mortem et Gloriam rules and list updates as of 5 January 2025 (including Army spreadsheet), 15mm, 10,000 points, any list
Join us for the second year of Oathmark at Cancon!
Two days, four games at 2500 points on Saturday and Sunday.
Click here for the Player’s Pack.
Join us for a fast-paced day of sci-fi warfare in the Grimdark Future universe!
This event will feature:
-Three Rounds of matched play (each 2 hours).
-3000 Point Armies built using the official One Page Rules army lists.
-Missions and scoring will follow the Grimdark Future tournament pack.
-Prizes for Best General, Best Painted, and Best Sportsmanship.
Whether you’re a seasoned commander or new to the system, this is the perfect chance to test your tactics, roll some dice, and battle it out for glory in the far future!
Renaissance at War
15 mm De Bellis Renationis (DBR) V 2
Welcoming players to the 2026 15mm Australian National DBR Tournament and, depending on competitors from across the Ditch, the South Pacific Championship Shield.
Five or six games over 3 days, Saturday 24 to Monday 26 January 2025. Players who complete all games (including byes) qualify for prizes.
Armies: Any army of 400 AP from the three WRG army list books. Players may submit up to two lists but each must be the same date and location with the same or no ally. Please submit lists to aamcarthur@gmail.com no later than Monday January 19, 2026 All figures must be historically depicted, suitably painted and correctly based.
Terrain: All terrain will be provided by organisers and available as a pool for players to use. You do not need to bring your own terrain.
No Difficult Going (DGo) can be placed within the 300p battlefield centre [see also Rules a) below].
Rules: WRG DBR v2 with internationally accepted amendments and guidelines, including:
a) Enclosed fields (E) can be treated as Rough Going (RGo), and
b) if time and weather rules are agreed by BOTH players the earliest battles can start is Dawn.
c) Special Tournament Rules in addition to the standard rule book include:
I. Split of Shot (Sh) into Musket (Msk) [cost as per Sh classification] and Arquebus (Arq) [where listed most classified (O) @ 5 AP except Spanish/Russian Streltsy (S) @ 7 AP and Ottoman Janissaries (F) @ 5 AP]. (detailed Amended Army Lists available on request)
II. Distributed baggage – costed by command but loss only affects army break point. Non-allied baggage may be deployed together in any command’s deployment area and if mobile moved by C-in-C’s PIP, but allied baggage must be deployed within the Allied Command rectangle.
III. Victory and Defeat points are 0 – 20 (10 as per the rules + 10 based on % of opponent’s destroyed ME).
Details of Tournament Rules and other instructions and guidelines will be emailed to players after registration closes and included with the Players’ Guide issued on day 1. Please contact Phil for information or clarification on tournament rules.
Our chief sponsor is Mick’s Metal Models.
Contacts: Phil Clark 0407704265, prclark46@yahoo.com.au (email preferred).
James Daniels 0409586872, jadaniels@iinet.net.au (email preferred).
Please direct all non-tournament enquiries to the CANCON organisers.
Hello everyone, and we look forward to welcoming you to the Team Yankee Australian Nationals at CANCON 2026!
Come and join us for 2 days of dice-rolling, tank-smashing fun in Canberra as we go back in time to the fields of 1989 Germany for Operation REFORGER ’26. Bring your army and play against other generals to achieve superiority over the enemy in Europe, and test the mettle of the best that NATO and the Warsaw Pact have to offer.
Both days will bring our esteemed commanders to the competitive tournament games, fighting against each other to see who will come out on top in a points-scored test to see who is the best among you. Be on your guard – the enemy will surely bring their finest!
Basic rules, and handy things to know:
– This event will be run using the Team Yankee V2 Dynamic Points (2025) version of the game.
– Each army must be no more than 90 points, and must be from the same rulebook. (No allied formations.)
– Each army may have a maximum of 30 infantry stands.
– Terrain and boards will be supplied, but feel free to bring your own if you would like to contribute.
– There will be a best-painted prize for the army consisting fully of official Battlefront miniatures, so bring your best!
Lists will need to be finalised by December 1, 2025. Please send through your list to the TO, Tim Jamieson, at timjamo26@gmail.com for review and registration. I am also active on the Team Yankee official Facebook page, and you can find me there if you’ve got any questions.
We look forward to seeing you in the Fulda Gap, General!
TIME TO LARD UP DOWN UNDER – Your chance to play TooFatLardies games.
For the three days, all things Lard will feature at CANCON in the Lard Zone.
For available games and to book your place, see “LARD DOWN UNDER CANCON 2026 – Games”
In the 21st Century Boardgames Competition entrants compete for the title of National Boardgames Champion by playing examples of modern and current euro-style board (or card) games. Players may participate in any or all of the games on offer, as many times as they like, and with whom they like. There are also other awards, including: one for the most consistently good player; one for each game, for the best player of that game; one for playing the most games; and one for playing the most people. Continuing with the rules adopted last year, each game session will involve three players.
Early in December, entrants will vote fourteen games from a list of candidates into the competition. Initially this list of candidate games for 2026 consists of the following: Concordia, Dominion, Dune Imperium, Earth, Fairy Ring, Flamecraft, Forest Shuffle, Gizmos, Harmonies, Power Grid, Terraforming Mars, Trans Europa, Wingspan, and Wyrmspan. Each entrant, however, may propose one additional game by emailing the organiser and, if it is suitable, it will be added to the list.
To be suitable for the competition – after possibly placing restrictions upon which version(s) of it may be played – a game should:
– be a current example of a euro-style board(or card)game: generally it ought to have been initially released no more than ten years ago. But the organiser is open to arguments that a game still retains its currency and popularity: evidenced by, for example, recent expansions or reprints.
– be readily available: either being in print, or being easily obtained for purchase.
– have a three player option, and a numeric score which, in ascending order, ranks its players first, second, and third.
– have a good range of player scores, possibly in conjunction with a numeric tie breaker. As needed, a house ruled tie breaker may be adopted to ensure this is so.
Warhammer 40k is back in the Capital!
5 Games, 2,000 points – Game On!
Welcome to Warmachine at Cancon 2026!
Full tournament details are below, but please join the Warmachine Australia Facebook Group and the Warmachine Australia Discord to stay up to date with any additional announcements.
DAY 1 – Saturday 24th January 2026
100pt PRIME Steamroller (Masters): (MAX 64 players)
50pt Prime Brawlmachine: (MAX 24 players)
DAY 2 – Sunday 25th January 2026
100pt PRIME Teams event: (MAX 24 players, 8 teams of 3 players)
50pt Prime Brawlmachine: (MAX 24 players)
Narrative Event: 8 Players
DAY 3 – Monday 26th January 2026
75pt PRIME Steamroller: (MAX 32 players)
75pt Who’s the Boss: (MAX 24 players)
Warmaster Revolution is back, again!
Come sign up for 4 scenario based games of 10mm action in the Old World.
Armies are 2000 points, any manufacturers/design welcome.
Rules for this most excellent iteration of the rules can be found here
