The Magmahold

  Yesterday was the second Underworlds tournament run by the Agents of Sigmar (I blogged about the first one last November here ). It was five rounds of best-of-one using the Nemesis format, which for non-Underworlds aficionados involves limited deck building with a warband deck and one of the pre-built Rivals decks. I’d initially planned on taking Daggok’s Stab Ladz, the recently released Kruleboyz warband. However, I’d had a pretty terrible run of practice games with them and hadn’t won a single game with them in the Nemesis format, so I decided to cut my losses. My fallback was Hexbane’s Hunters with the Malevolent Masks deck, which I managed to get all of five practice games in with prior to the event. Hexbane’s Hunters are a warband of four witch hunters, some more melee focused and some more range focused, and two dogs. The warband has a special rule that when one of the hunters dies you can equip an upgrade for free onto one of the others, so the way they play is that yo...