Web Highlights from March 2025

Featured this month are a few renditions of the Granfather’s Gardeners my local group did as a monthly painting challenge. Several of us had copies of the warband unpainted, and seeing as March is sowing season when better to get down to gardening?

Rain City Thunderworlds presents: Garden Variety

My Horrific green background (Lyme Disease?) that should probably get redone

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

Content Creators

PODCASTS

What the Hex put out three solid episodes this month – the first being a discussion about bringing kids to events and training family members (plus a super cute kid interviewing kid segment at the end). They had a long discussion about their take on the current Meta as they prepped for Adepticon,, and finally a ‘what I’m bringing and why’ marathon with everybody from their substantially sized local scene attending ACon.

Path to Glory had an interview with Val, who won the Clash at Warhammer World and was runner up at the Grand Clash the following day. They also had a Meta Assessment coming into Adepticon that covers what they think is good and likely to be seen at a big event these days.

YOUTUBE

Glorkazworka has posted a Nemesis Pairing Tier List video discussion in Polish. While I don’t speak Polish and can’t comment on their rationale, I do like the pretty picture

Critical Focus Channel continued their incredible pace of videos as usual this month. Here’s a ‘Fixing Bad Warbands’ episode about Blackpowder’s Buccaneers, Here is a Zarbag’s vs Jaws battle report, Here is the prep for the Copenhagen Clash, and here’s a recap of the event. They also started a “Lore vs Rules” series, starting with Death Warbands!

La Prima Sfera posted another battle report in Italian, this time with Ylthari’s Guardians vs Kainan’s Reapers in Rivals format.

Finally, the Agents of Sigmar posted a very interesting video titled “Embergard: How It’s Going Report Card” to cover their thoughts on the new edition now that we have a few months of experience. They also posted a “Rivals Deck Tier List” which are always fun

BLOGS

Critico y Culo has a Spanish language tournament overview from a 14-man clash in Spain which describes an interesting Kunnin Krew deck that took the trophy.

Jon Grant Miniatures posted a rivals tournament recap covering his games with Cyreni’s Razors and Countdown to Cataclysm

Staggerers has been VERY busy this month – here’s a suggested kill priority for each warband in the Order Grand Alliance as well as one for Destruction, here’s a review of Dan Knight’s Edge of the Knife Condemnors, Michael’s Spiteclaw deck for the Copenhagen Clash, and a recap of the Clash itself.

An “Underworlds State of Play” Meta Analysis from Borni and the stats project was posted this month, which shows Jaws and Zarbag remain strong but Borgit is rising fast.

Events/Organized Play

Adepticon, generally seen as the premiere North American Underworlds event, took place at the end of March. In the End, Mark of Path to Glory took it over Skyler of What the Hex in a surprisingly ‘off-meta’ finals, with Mark running Kainan’s Reapers and Skyler using Ylthari’s (with P&P and Wrack and Ruin!?). Great to see a solid turnout and a good variety of viable warbands and deck pairings in the top cut.

The Copenhagen Grand Clash finished up this month, and 37 players from 7 different countries competed in the event which eventually crowned Zarbag’s Gitz with Countdown to Cataclysm + Pillage and Plunder piloted by Frederik Hummeluhr.

Polish Championships in Poznan happened this month, and out of 32 players, the title went to Michał Michalski playing Zarbag’s Gitz with Countdown to Cataclysm and Pillage and Plunder.

The Czech League finals went down this month, with Václav Lankaš as the only undefeated player with Myari’s Purifiers.

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.

On April 5th, Agents of Sigmar have a Golden Ticket Event in Redhill UK. There are only a few tickets left, so jump fast!

Busy Weekend in the UK – on April 6th the Element Legends will hold a Nemesis Event in Stockport UK

The Alberta Classic is taking place in Calgary on May 3rd and has THREE golden tickets available.

May 10-11 will host the Warsaw Masters XLI which is always packed with stiff competition

The Canadian Tabletop Championships is May 24-25, and is offering 3 tickets to Worlds again! 6 rounds, 4 pool games Saturday and 2 bracket games on Sunday with 120-minute rounds in Ottawa, Ontario. Here’s the BCP link where you can register directly

14 June will see a Golden Ticket event in Brno, Czech Republic, with more info to come but potential for 60 seats!

15 June 2025 in the Netherlands will see the Benelux Clash put on by Straight Outta Shadespire and the Rotterdam White Scars, and it carries a Golden Ticket!

July 5th-6th will host the World Team Championships in Vienna, Austria which will host 5-player teams from countries around the world fighting for the world team title. If you have five competitors from your nation, consider hitting up Vienna this July and see if you can’t take the championship! It will be a 6 round Nemesis event over two days.

August 2nd will feature Into the Under-Ekeren III, held in Ekeren, Belgium which has also been selected to be a Golden Ticket event. Get busy, Europe!

Finally, the US Open series has finally put tickets on sale, though I suppose it shouldn’t be the US Open since they added a Canadian event! Here’s a link to buy tickets of July 19-20 in Tacoma, Washington where you’ll get to meet me and hang out for a weekend of good times.

Painting/Hobby

Bob Cohoon took Silver in the Adepticon Golden Daemon AoS Unit category for this awesome Cyreni’s Razors diorama, above. Look at those cute lil’ jellyfish!

This Crimson Court Diorama by Mohamed Aït-Mehdi took third in the same Golden Daemon Catergoy, and I love the white armor

Aaron Clark won Silver in the AoS Single Model category at the Adepticon Golden Daemon for this Vexmor with amazing NMM

“Mysteries of Darkness” by Holivar, which is a diorama featuring Calthia Xandire with great OSL

Crazy cool Borgit with freckles on the shield by Peppe Solano, who also did up Uglug in their signature style

Excellent detail on the Prince of Dust by Mike Mikłowski-Paszek. Be sure to peek the basing skull’s eye socket…

Zikkit’s Tunnelpack by Jon Grant – love the white cap on Rittak

Super slick Lupan Longcut by Song Young – the red mask and freehand on the pants are both next level

Stunning Ylthari’s Guardians in a yellow-gold autumnal theme by Maria Włodarz of Ace of Paints, who also posted this great Mollog’s Mob with cool transitions

Thricefold Discord on a cool custom plinth with very smooth skin work by SignificantAd4141

Nice and bloody Garrek’s Reavers by anatolikav

Awesome Ylthari’s Guardians by Matthew Young – love the blue and extreme highlighting

A cool little vignette of a showdown between Grinkrak’s Looncourt in one set of images, and The Farstriders in another by anatolikav. Solid paint jobs and nice photography to tell a story off the board and among some terrain. Here’s the closeups of Grinkrak’s Court by themselves, and the Farstriders’ closeups as well.

Killer NMM on the Emberwatch and fantastic texture on the cloaks by Kruks_Minis

Crisp Jaws of Itzl by CaptainBenzie

Purple-ish Ennias Curseborn by Ant_Soldier_Nr777 – love the bat wings

Dagg3rsB, a staple of this monthly roundup, has posted Grandfather’s Gardeners with the signature style I love so much. The wings on Squort are a particular delight! They also finished the Jaws of Itzl in tons of interesting brown and beige variety which really contrasts well with the blue accents. Here’s the Tunnelpack to add to the fun in a cool orange scheme.

Young Master Kretch with awesome highlighting on the skin that gives off the horror movie vibes we love from the Skinnerkin. Props to Kyasupa_ for this work!

Hexbane’s Hunters with awesome detail, striking bases, and I especially like the fur on the dogs. Great work by Mzeem minis

Grandfather’s Gardeners by Master-Barracuda-707 with great looking ticks and corrosion throughout

Borgit’s Beastgrabbaz by gospog_1975 which includes some awesome checkered patterning on the leader’s big hat

Stormsire’s Cursebreakers with a vivid pink cloth scheme that offsets the silver armor really well and makes for a bright ensemble. I’ve missed seeing these guys around – what a great model kit and excellent work by Moos_Am_Sack

Awesome Jaws of Itzl painted as Gor-Rok and his two Scar Veterans by Imperius_Ira. Blood effects in just the right amount, which is hard to do. The Jade is especially well done here

Screaming bright yellow-green warpstone on Zikkit’s Tunnelpack by Steve Herck

Tom Bisbee’s Pale Blue Jaws of Itzl

Awesome lightning effect and sketching on the armor and cloak of Ardorn by Живко Иванов Железов

Cool Ylthari’s diorama by Mark Maxey, who went for a themed display with the mountain area being cool then as it slopes down and warms up to match the forest floor.

Crimson Court in a multi-color theme by Bruce Koontz

Emberwatch in a black and red scheme by Thor7791

Sharp detail and great basing on Borgit Wolf-Killa by Remisang

MISCELLANEOUS

Custom 40K cards and board for a game of FutureUnderworlds by gennooox – Severin as a Dark Angels Terminator and Slynk as a Skitarii fighter is a cool angle and you have to imagine this sort of thing would have huge pull for new players who like the space marine life

I learned about this attack odds calculator from First edition – Underworlds-odds. The math will be a little different considering the changes to crits, but if you wanted to do a little playing around with various roll probabilities this is a great way to burn a half hour.

North West Underworlds has a brand new slate of Gaming Aids for a few alternate play modes

And of course, the V1+ Vassal server has remained very busy. They’ve cooked up custom warbands, updated exiosting warbands, and backported new warbands into the first edition format. If you want more V1, you have to check it out. They’re taking volunteers to help with more work!