Event News - Goonhammer UK Teams March 2026
Tickets are still available for the first Goonhammer Open UK of 2026 - which this time is going to be our first Teams tournament. If you're interested in playing in a 5-player Team Tournament with WTC Terrain on 14th-15th March in Leicester, check out the details below:This Week's Events
Part 2 on Friday:- Uprising Adelaide 2026
- The 2026 Swordwind Winter Grand Tournament
- Iron-Claws Wargaming South Mills GT
- GFGT III
- DPW GT 1 2026
- HAMBURG MAJOR 2026 40k
- Warp Warriors 2026
- Winchester 40K GT - January 2026
- The Gang's 40k Grand Tournament at Castle Con
- VT 40K GT JAN 2026
- Wet Coast GT 2026 - 40k Champs
- CanCon 40k Open 2026
- "Wishing it was LVO" 40K GT
- The Great Game - Gongaii GT Winter 2026
- NIGEL'S NUTTA'S
Uprising Adelaide 2026
173-player, 8-round Supermajor in Highbury, South Australia, AU on January 23 2026. All the lists for this event can be found in Best Coast Pairings.Note: The results of this one got weird - as I understand it, there were only two undefeated players going into round 7, so it was determined that their game would decide 1st/2nd place rather than leave the possibility of them getting leapfrogged in the 8th round.
Michael Pappin - Ultramarines (Gladius Task Force) - 1st Place
Victrix Guard Chapter Ancient Credit: Keewa
The List
Archetype
Redeemer MarinesThoughts
Following the recent resurgence of Land Raiders, the Ultramarines get in on the act here, shoving a Redeemer into the existing game plan of 'Victrix, Vindicators, Victory'. It gives you a great push piece for forcing enemy commitment and the flamers hit very, very hard with the boosted Oaths of Moment. Otherwise it's a real toolbox here- some Impulsors, Inceptors, and the Callidus to tisk off tasks as Victrix do the dirty work. Amazing work on the event win!Jono Bishop - T'au Empire (Mont'ka) - 2nd Place
Broadside Battlesuits with Heavy Rail Rifles. Credit: Jack Hunter
The List
Archetype
Mont'ka PressureThoughts
Old school Mont'ka pressure here, with plenty of Riptides, Devilfish with Pathfinders, and supporting scoring. The new pricier Stealth Suits still make the cut, and the list seems to completely strip back on backline presence (with a couple of Ethereals as a cheap option), in order to send it forwards as much as possible. The way it's meant to be played, excellent work.Rhys Cunningham - Grey Knights (Warpbane Task Force) - 3rd Place
Grey Knights Stormraven Gunship. Credit: Colin Ward
The List
Archetype
GK StormravenThoughts
A build that surfaced briefly before the world moved on, but is nonetheless rather versatile and deadly, the Warp Bane Stormraven list packs a brutal sucker punch via disembarking Purifiers that allows it to open up a game at short notice. Triple Librarians bring some of the old school GK sniping energy, and the rest of the list offers some scoring and solidity. GK aren't easy to get up into the top places with right now, so credit where it's due!!Matthew Lyndon - Necrons (Pantheon of Woe) - 4th Place
The Nightbringer. Credit: Wings
The List
Archetype
Pantheon Big SkewThoughts
Pantheon sure does let you hit the skew button hard, with plenty of C'tan (some teleporting around - pesky Transcendants!) and the Silent King. SK is quite a crucial tempo piece for these new Necron lists - he let's you whittle away at things from safety in the early game, and he benefits more than most from being able to emerge from hiding to kill the opposing anti-tank, leaving himself functionally immortal (hehe). Deceiver leads the C'tan charge - what an obnoxious piece he is right now, with Precision for days and a tiny base that makes engaging and screening him especially difficult!The Best of the Rest
There was 1 more player on 7-1 records. They were:- 5th - Michael Hamilton - Space Marines (Astartes) (Blade of Ultramar): Victrix and Vindicator heavy Blades of Ultramar.
The 2026 Swordwind Winter Grand Tournament
45-player, 5-round Grand Tournament in East Huntspill, England, United Kingdom on January 24 2026. All the lists for this event can be found in Best Coast Pairings.Chris Irvine - Blood Angels (Rage-cursed Onslaught) - 1st Place
Primaris Chapter Master Dante. Credit: Jack Hunter
The List
Archetype
All-In BAThoughts
Go Chris!! My 6++ teammate brings home the gold on the vicious all-in Rage Cursed list. I've played against this a couple of times and it is very good at setting immediate pressure and not letting up. Blood Surging Dreadnoughts with a 5+++ seizing the objectives gets the party going before ALL the infantry get involved- a lot of armies simply get overwhelmed. RCO seems to have brought back the BA style that fans most enjoy - decisive, risky, but brutal strikes from afar that leave nothing on the pitch. Amazing work on the event win lad!Jake Dinner - Necrons (Starshatter Arsenal) - 2nd Place (Undefeated)
C'tan Shard of the Void Dragon. Credit: Rockfish
The List
Archetype
Starshatter GoodstuffThoughts
A tasteful reference to the tears of others followed up by Silent King, some C'tan and some Doomsday Arks. Pulling out all the stops here! Praetorians and Deathmarks give you some speedy and deliverable MSU, but otherwise this is stat check central, with the ability to reactive move the King or a C'tan at a key moment to throw off an attempt to bring them down key to launching a counter-offensive. Amazing work on the top placing!The Best of the Rest
There were 5 more players on 4-1 records. They were:- 3rd - Tom Godfrey - Orks (War Horde): Massed Breaka Boyz and Boyz, with Ghaz leading the 20 man to victory.
- 4th - Russell Amott - Dark Angels (Gladius Task Force): Lots of Eradicators and Land Speeders for a firebase, with Azrael propping it up.
- 5th - Samuel Hawkins - Necrons (Pantheon of Woe): A LOT of C'tan, and Ammentar.
- 6th - William Griffiths - Necrons (Cryptek Conclave): Silent King, Ammentar, and Deceiver / Nightbringer in the new Conclave detachment.
- 7th - Patrick Carroll - Dark Angels (Wrath of the Rock): Deathwing Knights and a Hellblaster brick in Wrath.
Iron-Claws Wargaming South Mills GT
39-player, 5-round Grand Tournament in South Mills, NC, United States on January 24 2026. All the lists for this event can be found in Best Coast Pairings.Chris Cardamone - Death Guard (Champions of Contagion) - 1st Place
Death Guard Plague Marine. Credit: Pendulin
The List
Archetype
Champs BrutalityThoughts
Porting over the Virulent list to Champions of Contagion here, with the Daemon Prince, Blightlord Brick, and Plague Marines all benefiting from greater Contagion flexibility and access to some nasty rerolls. Blight-launcher Drones make way for more stuff on the ground, with triple Blighthaulers ready to provide the anti-tank. I think Death Guard have crept back in happily to a meta increasingly full of melee marines and Custodes bodies, and applying overlapping contagions and some tasteful Fights First out there goes an awful long way. Excellent work on the event win!Mike Robertson - T'au Empire (Retaliation Cadre) - 2nd Place (Undefeated)
Commander Farsight. Credit: Jack Hunter
The List
Archetype
Ret Cadre ToolboxThoughts
If you're not going all-in with Mont'ka, you can do clever antics with Ret Cadre instead and whittle the opponent down with the appropriate Crisis teams before hitting the shove. Stealth Suits kick back even harder against the nerf allegations here, with THREE teams in tow to juice up the suit shooting. Ret Cadre plays an excellent mid-tempo game, and in a meta with a lot of Marine bodies the Fireknives in particular feel a sound investment. Amazing work on the top placing.The Best of the Rest
There were 5 more players on 4-1 records. They were:- 3rd - Preston Southan - Adeptus Mechanicus (Haloscreed Battle Clade): Brick pressure Haloscreed with big tens of Infiltrators and Ruststalkers.
- 4th - Ron Schuetz - Space Marines (Astartes) (Blade of Ultramar): Victrix MSU popping our of a Land Raider Redeemer in rather a novel Blade build.
- 5th - Gregory Moxley - Blood Angels (Rage-cursed Onslaught): All-in BA with a Vindicator as a hull-cracker.
- 6th - Mason Geib - Emperor's Children (Coterie of the Conceited): Coterie Goodstuff with triple Daemon Prince.
- 7th - Jake Wolfslied - Space Wolves (Saga of the Great Wolf): Terminator brick Space Wolves with some vehicles for ranged support.
GFGT III
38-player, 5-round Grand Tournament in Skåne län, Sweden on January 24 2026. All the lists for this event can be found in Best Coast Pairings.William Axelsson - World Eaters (Berzerker Warband) - 1st Place
Credit: Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones
The List
Archetype
Angron and MSUThoughts
The stroppiest primarch emerges to lead his legion into a post-Berzerker brick future, with loads of Eightbound and Spawn giving you a mini missile trading game instead. Forgefiends make a return, their eyes lighting up as someone informs them Victrix are now 3 wounds a pop. WE are watching the meta with hungry eyes - if the Necrons all start skewing into Infantry to tech for each other, the door opens to them making a vicious return. In the meantime an excellent pilot can still take them to the heights, as William has demonstrated here. Fantastic work :DThe Best of the Rest
There were 5 more players on 4-1 records. They were:- 2nd - Ossian Munck - Blood Angels (Liberator Assault Group): Huge numbers of Assault Intercessors in LAG, with Mephiston and Lemartes heading the group.
- 3rd - Joakim Engström - Tyranids (Invasion Fleet): Classic Big-Bug Little-Bug Invasion Fleet, with a Norn and the usual gun-bugs.
- 4th - Lucas Svensson - Necrons (Pantheon of Woe): A lot of C'tan, two DDAs.
- 5th - Jeppa Resmark - Astra Militarum (Grizzled Company): The full 18 Professors (Bullgryn) in Grizzled.
- 6th - Jacob Edvinsson - Chaos Daemons (Daemonic Incursion): Rendmaster / Bloodletter bomb antics with Kairos and the bin-Chicken LoC for fire support.
DPW GT 1 2026
30-player, 5-round Grand Tournament in Ballerup, Danmark on January 24 2026. All the lists for this event can be found in Best Coast Pairings.The Showdown
Matchup & Mission - Aeldari (Guardian Battlehost) versus Aeldari (Seer Council)
Killi Paaske - Aeldari (Guardian Battlehost)vs.
Peter Herbild - Aeldari (Seer Council)
Thoughts
I know what you're all thinking. Tom, where did all the Aeldari go?! I'm worried about them! It's been a week or two since I saw elves in the top placings, I do hope everything is ok. Well, I've got a treat for you. Two builds that showcase possible new directions for the faction, throwing down in a final!The interesting thing is that, whilst the detachments differ, much of the chassis is the same. Seer Council brings teleportation and lone op antics, as well as some on demand battle-shocking. In the other corner the Guardian Battlehost juices output, and enables you to resurrect Guardian bricks that don't fully die to keep them in the fight.
Units wise, the overlap is very real - Guardians of both flavours make the list, Warlocks are here in abundance for some volume flamers and overwatch, and Eldrad provides +1 to wound to take the massed fire up a level. Both lists need to apply him carefully - lose the buff and some of these weapons will struggle with big targets. They can apply massive threat in one or two areas, clearing their way to a more controlled board state. Aspect Warriors are relatively light on the ground here but Asurman adds additional non-interactivity to the Battle Host list.
Elf Mirrors have often been rapid, brutal affairs decided heavily by Swooping Hawks and Warp Spiders. With a bit less speed and a lot of volume shooting on both sides, this one ended up a very grindy and close affair! Excellent work both. Keep the elf dream alive.
Result
Aeldari (Seer Council) Victory - 74 - 63Peter Herbild - Aeldari (Seer Council) - 1st Place
Aeldari Warlocks of Craftworld She'enshar - Credit: Colin Ward
The List
Archetype
Seer CouncilThoughts
Wings, sneaking in at the end: The big brain Seer Council special here, able to score and keep foes on their toes with all the teleportation tricks. It's also pretty good into melee Marine builds, as the overwatch threat from the Warlock Conclaves (and reactive Mortals from Vaul's Wrath) can make it tough to reliably engage. Seer Council is fairly unique among Aeldari in that the big blocks can be really hard to kill too, adding some staying power. Even into C'tan, the chip damage from massed Flamers with Doom up can cause some pause, and if you want an Aeldari build to try out, this one can be good fun. Well done Peter!The Best of the Rest
There were 4 more players on 4-1 records. They were:- 2nd - Jesper Grytter - Chaos Daemons (Scintillating Legion): Big Chickens and Belly with Horrors for mission play.
- 3rd - Lasse Blichfeldt - Chaos Daemons (Legion of Excess): Vicious Daemonette and Fiend spam with some Keepers in tow.
- 4th - Killi Paaske - Aeldari (Guardian Battlehost): Guardian bricks with built in Warlock shooting and War Walkers for bonus AP.
- 5th - Tim Verbeek - T'au Empire (Mont'ka): Devilfish / Riptide pressure T'au, with a Stormsurge.
Competitive Innovations in 10th: Unsettling C'tan pt.2


