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...

  Yesterday I went to a 31 player Underworlds tournament in Redhill run by the Agents of Sigmar, so it’s time for another event recap blog. I’m not going to get into the detail of my games as much as I usually do in these blogs, because I didn’t make any notes on my games during the day. But I’ll talk a bit about how I’m finding Underworlds at the moment, and briefly cover how I got on at the event. Tournament prep Since the Grand Clash at Warhammer World in February, I’ve been struggling a bit to figure out what warband and deck I want to play. I was very happy with how I did at the grand clash with the Emberstone Sentinels/Countdown to Cataclysm deck pairing, but was also a bit bored of playing it as I’d barely played anything else in the new edition, so I wanted to try something different. I tried out a few things, but nothing really stuck. I experimented a bit with Hexbane’s Hunters with the new Edge of the Knife deck (which is based on fighters being ‘tempered’: either h...

Yesterday I went to the first UK based Underworlds Grand Clash of the new edition, at Warhammer World. There were 124 players which was fantastic to see, a significant increase on the last few clashes of the old edition. I’m going to run through my games as usual in these event reports, and then briefly cover some stats from the clash at the end. The main competitive format for the new edition is Nemesis, where you build a deck by combining any two of the six decks currently available (soon to be seven). You can then use that deck with any of the warbands allowed in matched play. I chose to take Cyreni’s Razors, an Idoneth Deepkin warband consisting of three aelves and a squid. They’re the warband I’ve played most of my second edition games with, I think they have solid stats and I like that they allow quite a flexible playstyle. The four fighters all have four health and hit for two damage, so they’re reasonable interchangeable in terms of how you use them, and it’s not a big deal i...