July’s featured photo is this picture of the competitors at the Tacoma Open this year – almost all of us, anyway! Glad to have had the opportunity to hang out with so many cool people for the weekend and play with so many new friends. If there’s an Organized Play Event near you, I wholeheartedly recommend you attend if able!

Check out Web Highlights from previous months here, or dive in by category below!

Content Creators

Thomas of Underworlds Underground, Aran from Tuscson, and Skyler from What the Hex headed to Canada to compete in the Alberta Classic Grand Clash. They were foolish enough to let me interview them on the Underworlds Underground Podcast, which you can listen to here!

Goonhammer, the biggest tabletop gaming website and a dominant presence in the warhammer scene, has FINALLY brought back Underworlds content! This article is the first posted since 2022, and describes how Jake ran the Grand Clash at the Goonhammer Open this month. Looking forward to more WHU content from the big boys!

Path to Glory finished their Nemesis tier list, and you can hear the discussion on this podcast episode. They also posted up a picture of the tierlist itself on the blog, which you can view here. Now get your pitchforks out and rabble!

Path to Glory has also published a podcast on the four main archetypes of playstyle/warband, which is great education for new players and old. Additionally, they open the episode with a ‘Bane of Zeroes’ discussion on when to draw a card rather than take a fighter action, which is concise yet very informative. This episode is as close to a ‘must listen’ as you’re going to get!

What the Hex has published a podcast on How to Run a Tournament, featuring Jake who just ran the Goonhammer Open. It’s full of helpful tips – please consider running a tournament of your own! It’s easy! It grows the community! These guys can help!

Critical Focus Channel is back with a quick 30-minute battle report between Sepulchral Guard with Paths of Prophecy and Gryselle’s Arenai with Breakneck Slaughter. I’ve played this matchup before myself and it’s always an interesting one

Agents of Sigmar have continued to push out Underworlds videos despite also being tied up with AoS 4th edition (spearhead looks cool!). Here’s a video titled “Five (and some more) underworlds warbands we think are great for beginners!“

Random Wargamer has another battle report up, this time with Storm of Celestus taking on Garrek’s Reavers. I don’t want to spoil anything, but there is a certain card scored at the very end of the game that you just love to see…

Cinderfall gaming continues to produce Underworlds live-play videos, this time releasing Kainan’s Reapers vs Gryselle’s Arenai in a rivals game.

Finally, the Staggerers are back with a discussion on Rimewyrm’s Bite and whether or not it deserves the boogeyman status people assumed it would have upon elease. It looks at both Nemesis and Championship, and it’s great to see them push out some more content after a but of a break!

Events/Organized Play

This month was the Tacoma Open Grand Clash, and despite the Canadian sweep it was a great time. Here’s my overview of the event. Grand Clashes are fun and you should go to one! Look how happy we are in the featured photo up top.

This month also featured the first Underworlds tournament at the Goonhammer Open, which was won by Craig using Parasite GSP. Check out his recap here.

The Warhammer World Nemesis Clash saw 28 players fight it out and have Gnarlspirit with Tooth and Claw take the top spot, piloted by James Waters. In the Rivals clash this month, 30 players squared off to see Dan Findlay-Robinson’s Kunnin Krew come out as the winner. Great to see the twice-monthly contest continue with a good number of players!

UPCOMING

As usual, check out Check out the Global Events Calendar here: you can filter by country and see what’s happening in your corner of the world. Note this is in GMT so hours may be off for you depending on your time zone. I’ll call out a few things that have me excited below.

The next Madtown Throwdown on August 17th in Madison WI will have a ticket to worlds on the line! Three rounds of best-of-three nemesis action – don’t miss it if you’re nearby. Meet the WtH crew!

The NOVA Open in the Lesser Washington (DC) will be held August 28-September 1st, and will have an Underworlds Grand Clash! go to www.novaopen.com and get your tickets to hang out with the crowd that will include lots of big competitive names from the US East coast including people from Battlemallet and Path to Glory. Should be a good time!

SoCal open with my buddy Saxthom as the TO will be held Oct 19-20 – the link says ‘champs’ but I’m told the event is Nemesis, the champs just refers to it being a competitive event and not a Championship format event.

The Polish Team Championships will also be held October 19-20 and is as always a very high-level contest.

Painting/Hobby

“Stormsire’s Cursebreakers starry night edition” by grickenlorridge and I don’t know what to say besides holy cow. This one deserves a look.

Adam Weller has posted up some mind-blowing Crimson Court, with different NMM colors on each model. Each individually is amazing in its own right, and as a whole they’re next level. Here’s Prince Duvalle in his series of closeups.

Hexbane’s Hunters in a stunning yellow by Jorge Gomez – check these closeups/individual photos

Kreep Kinwhisper, beautifully underlit from the green sewer channel, set in a rotating video by RedofPaw. Excellent work on the flesh and fur as well! Check out the minions here, and you can see similar greatness on Snyp Padpaw.

Dead-Eye Lund in a neon-Tron style, really creative and well done to boot! Great work out of projectmalantai

Gritty and dark Garrek’s Reavers painted beautifully with some really crisp conversion work by Wojciech Podsiadły. Looking proper Viking reaver style here!

Zarbag’s Gitz in a mystical bright blue scheme with rainbow shrooms by Crazykoala7 – loving the million little details here

Gorath the Enforcer in the process of being painted up for the Capital Palette by rhoff95 – excited for this year’s competition and the great stuff we should see like this rendition!

Artist backdrops galore with these single model dioramas by Rodrigo Lucas – here’s a Fyreslayer (their names escape me, too entranced by the no-pants) and here’s Krrk the Almost Trusted

Blackpowder’s Buccaneers in a very precise style by 61 painting, including a leapord print inner coat lining. Cool stuff!

Gorgeous rust and NMM on Thain Fourth and Last by Liam Hopkins

The Farstriders in a dark NMM with beautiful blue accents by CtaG14

Steelheart’s Champions in a rotating video, painted as Hallowed Knights with some cool full-helm headswaps to make them look even more knightly. Great work by TheRealThrashBoat

Hexbane’s Hunters with some cool conversions on Aemos and a great paintjob by Robert Graham

Bielkins Brush has finished the Gnarlspirit pack at long last with this rendition of Crimson Kheira. Loving the face tattoo/flaming eye thing! Here’s the fully assembled warband, and it was worth the wait.

The Chosen Axes by Pandrador-789 which have some really nice gemstone and lava effects on their basing

Sarpon, The Cyclone in a remarkably shiny NMM gold by Obalon

The Skinnerkin by I_am_not_Alpharius where each model has different horrid skin tones, and weathering is great, and the overall effect is just ace.

Kainan’s Reapers in a creepy purple by Angel Sinant of Lithis Mini Studio, who also has completed Mollog’s Mob in a similarly spooky feel. Plus, check out these Ephilim’s Pandaemonium in a really cool purple and green– offset quite well by the white robes!

Green and Red Skinnerkin by Dr_Caoc in their signature style

Elathain’s Soulraid with cool bone armor and some conversions on the leader by Shrimp_Warlock

The Farstriders as members of the Astral Templars chamber – one of my favorites – by Zvěřina Petr. Love the subtly metallic purple that is offset quite well by the teal accents and copper trim.

Cool blue and white Xandire’s Truthseekers by -TheRed that feature some comic-book flavored deep blue shadows in the red cloaks

The skinks from the Starblood Stalkers in a vibrant blue by Juan Miguel Pereña

Ironsoul’s Condemnors in a fun Silver, blue, red, and cream by NOWANGSTA

Zarbag’s Gitz in a light teal by Tiev, who also painted some Thorns of the Briar Queen in a cool rainbow cloth scheme

Hexbane’s Hunters in a neat blue and red with multiple conversions by Salty_Gazelle62

Myari’s Purifiers in a beautiful purple by Dagg3rsB

Brethren of the Bolt in blue by Jon Grant

Boxart style Headsman’s by that-guy-i-guess and in fairness the box art is pretty rad

The Skinnerkin in a moss-green sketch style by KrisSherriff

Zondara’s Gravebreakers looking like they’ve got the chill of the grave on them in the Deathgorge, by dietz057

Skittershank’s Clawpack in lilac by MagatsuNimura – the details on the basing are incredible and speak to a real talent. The transitions between fur and skin, with excellent texturing on both, reaffirm it.

Mollog’s Mob in a near blacklight fluorescence by NewMemphisMinis who has also completed Zarbag’s Gitz in a similar style, and some of the Eyes of the Nine as well

The Gorehulk by Nightscale Studio with some really cool brown tones in the big bone yoke thing he has going on, and I love the metal effect on his helmet

Mooseterious has finished Ephilim’s Pandaemonium as well as a shiny Domitan’s Stormcoven

Smooth Mollog’s Mob by jjjjjamie with great blending

Cyreni’s Razors in a smooth blue by Martinspoon, who also painted up some really striking highlights on the sepulchral guard with magenta and teal robes

A montage of Vampire Counts for The Old World including the Scriptor of the Sentence and Lady Harrow’s Mournflight on square bases by Josh Crozman

Morgwaeth’s Bladecoven in purple by bistedfloo

The Exiled Dead looking like they’re all ready for Mosscairn by Th4t9uy

Loonywh with several newly painted warbands: The Gnarlspirit Pack, Skinnerkin, and Sepulchral Guard

La Voz de Shadespire with a glistening red Vexmor – looks straight out of the realm of fire, you know, except for the freezing base thing.

Miscellaneous

Some Steelheart’s Champions proxy models made up in a 3D modeling software created by Ivan Ugnichev

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That’s a wrap! Tune in next month for August’s highlights, and don’t forget to Spend your Glory!