The Magmahold

First Underworlds tournament report of 2026, let’s go. I blogged back in November about how watching the Underworlds stream from the World Championships of Warhammer had made me want to try to get better at Underworlds, and since then I’ve been thinking about the game more and trying to get the reps in to be competitive at tournaments. There’s a Warhammer World Grand Clash coming up in March, but for my first tournament of 2026 I went to a five round best-of-one event run by the Agents of Sigmar in Redhill. There were 22 players, and possibly because there were two golden tickets to Worlds on offer it was a super competitive field. I’d been doing fairly well in practice games in the run-up to the event so I felt like I had a chance, but the day before the event I had to give myself a mental talking to and try to get myself into a mindset where I wouldn’t be disappointed if I lost more games than I won, because looking at the roster the chances were that every game was going to be ...

  Here’s a quick blog on how I got on at Barleylands Brawl, a one-day Age of Sigmar event I went to a couple of weeks ago. Normally I cover Age of Sigmar events on my podcast (Three and Two: A Matched Play Age of Sigmar podcast), but my fellow podcast hosts and I have been to more events in January than we’re going to be able to fit into a pod, so I’m going to cover this one here instead. Barleylands Brawl is a recurring one-day event held at the Offworld Outpost store in Essex. It’s further away from me than I’d normally go for a one-dayer (I had to leave my house at about 6:15am to get there for a 9am start), but it’s run by some of my friends and I’ve never managed to make it to one before, so I wanted to make the effort. After a trek across London I made it there in decent time. The event is held in a function room above the store. It had natural light and a reasonable amount of space, excellent toilets, and even a little kitchen space, so 10/10 for facilities. I was runn...