As the dark season continues to extend its icy tendrils across my rainy island home, tournament season continues in full swing, and this weekend I’ll be heading up to Derby for Blood and Glory. This was one of my favourite events that I attended last year and I’m very hyped to be heading back (especially as there’s one of the few studio previews we get in the UK on Saturday night). Despite only being a couple of weeks on from my last event, it’s also a fresh new metagame, because as we recapped on the weekend it has been a wild few weeks of new releases and rules changes. Two new Marine Chapters have arrived, the Eldar have received some new tricks, and while the Iron Hands FAQ was in play for Glasshammer, this time people have had a chance to properly plan for it. With over 70 players registered it’s comfortably over the line to being a major, and is running largely down-the-line ITC rules (with fixed psychic powers being the only real exception), so lots of eyes are going to be on the results.

Will the dominance of Space Marines continue? Will the Aeldari find some sneaky new build to knock them off their perch? Am I going to deeply, deeply regret some of my life choices? Come the weekend we’ll all get to find out!

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