Tabletop wargames from 3000BC to the modern day plus Fantasy & Sci-Fi
The League of Ancients is located at Caulfied RSL in Elsternwick, Melbourne.
We meet two Sundays per month and always welcome new members or people just curious to learn more.
No experience or equipment is required
Games Played at the League of Ancients
This menu shows the most popular periods and rule sets played but members are always discovering new projects in new periods or rule systems. We love it when new members bring fresh inspiration so if you don’t see your favourite game listed, come along and introduce it to us. We’d love to give it a go!
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Played mostly in 15mm and 25mm the following are the common rule sets used: ADLG, Command & Colours, SAGA, Hail Caesar, Baron’s War, Strength & Honour, DBA, Infamy Infamy, Lion Rampant, Never Mind the Billhooks
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Common rule sets used: DBR, Pike & Shotte, Twilight of the Divine Right
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Common rule sets used: Glory is Fleeting, General d’Armee, Black Powder, Command & Colours, Blucher, Lasalle, Eagles to Glory
These are played mostly in 15mm and 25mm, although Blucher is usually played in 6mm.
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Common rule sets” Pickett’s Charge, Bloody Big Battles
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Most popular rule sets used: Bolt Action, Chain of Command, O Group, Flames of War, 02 Hundred Hours, Blitzkrieg Commander IV, Spearhead, Battlegroup, Memoir 44, All Hell Let Loose, Combat HQ
Played mostly in 15mm and 28mm although Blitzkrieg Commander in played in 10mm and Spearhead in 6mm.
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Rule sets used most often: Lord of the Rings, SAGA
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Common rule sets used: Team Yankee, Battleground HD, Cold War, Spearhead
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Rule sets used: Wings of Glory WW1 and WW2
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Common rules used: Black Seas, Cruel Seas
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The League of Ancients plays various other games and periods including Colonial (Black Powder), WW1 (Spearhead), Sci-fi, Western (Dead Man’s Hand and Legends of the Old West), Franco-Prussian War, Seven Years War, War of Spanish Succession and many others
Calendar of Events
We meet two Sundays a month at the Caulfield RSL in Elsternwick, Melbourne from 10am. A few times a year we meet for the whole weekend at the same venue to run tournaments and other special events. We are also trialling mid-week meetings.
2026
January
4th and 18th
February
1st (incl inter-club ADLG event vs NWA)
15th (incl Command & Colours Demo Day)
March
8th
28 & 29 (incl ACW 2-day event)
April
12th
19th (incl Bolt Action event)
May
3rd
23rd & 24th (incl ADLG tournament)
June
14th (incl Lardies demo day)
17th MID WEEK meeting
28 (incl SAGA event)
July
12th
23rd MID WEEK meeting
26th
August
8th & 9th (incl GIF Napoleonic tournament)
20th MID WEEK meeting
23rd
September
13th
20th (Bolt Action event)
27th
October
11th (incl General d’Armee demo day)
25th
November
8th (incl DBA tournament)
21st & 22nd (incl ADLG tournament)
December
6th
13th (incl Struggle of Nations Napoleonic Event)
About the League of Ancients
One of Melbourne’s oldest wargames clubs, we are also one of the most welcoming. We meet two Sundays a month at the Caulfield RSL in Elsternwick, Melbourne (see the calendar for exact dates).
Whether you’re interested in historical, fantasy or sci-fi games, on land, sea or air, someone will be able to invite you to join a game. Players of all ages and experience levels are required and you don’t even need to have any models to get started!
The RSL provides a great venue to meet with an excellent restaurant and bar to keep the generals well supplied!