Hey all, the World Cup of Warhammer, the European Team Championships (or ETC 2019) is now less than a month away and the team lists are out! The ETC is a 6 player Age of Sigmar team event with teams from 12 countries from around the world. This year Serbia is playing host.
Today’s post is covering all the team lists from the event. For more coverage, check out the Team England and Team USA announcements on the site 🙂 I’ll also have a post later this week covering the pack and scenarios 🙂
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What are the European Team Championships?
The European Team Championships is the World Cup of Warhammer with national teams from around the world competing in Warhammer Fantasy (before AoS) and Warhammer 40k, as well as The Ninth Age and Flames of War. Age of Sigmar was run as a side-event in 2018 and is now growing to fully-fledged game system this year with 19 teams registered so far.
Where and when is ETC 2019?
The ETC is held August 9-11 2019 in Novi Sad, Serbia.
What is the format?
Teams of 6 players face off in a series of individual games each round, with a combined score determining the results of each round. The event will be over 6 rounds to decide the overall winner.
The event is using General’s Handbook 2018 and a mixture of core book and GHB2018 battleplans. I’ll cover the pack in detail later this week.
ETC 2019 Round 1 Draw
The draw for the first round has been done and there are some juicy early match-ups, in particular England vs USA.
ETC 2019 Team Lists
And here are the lists! You can download the PDF or keep on scrolling. With thanks to Dave the Chin of the Hero Phase podcast/events/studios for the graphics.
The second team for the Age of Sigmar European Team Championships 2019 has been announced today – congratulations to Team England. In today’s post, I’ll briefly cover what the ETC is, the Team England selection process and profile the team members. I’ll be covering all the ETC news, with each team selection, and covering the event as it happens.
For those, who don’t want to read the whole piece, Team England 2019 is:
Tom Mawdsley (Non-playing Captain / Coach / Manager) (@Tom_Mawdsley)
The European Team Championships is the World Cup of Warhammer with national teams from around the world competing in Warhammer Fantasy (before AoS) and Warhammer 40k, as well as The Ninth Age and Flames of War. Age of Sigmar was run as a side-event in 2018 and is now growing to fully-fledged game system this year with 19 teams registered so far.
Where and when is ETC 2019?
The ETC is held August 9-11 2019 in Novi Sad, Serbia.
What is the format?
Teams of 6 players face off in a series of individual games each round, with a combined score determining the results of each round. The event will be over 6rounds to decide the overall winner.
The rules pack is currently being discussed, negotiated and voted on between the captains, coaches and representatives of the various teams. The desire is to play the event as “out-of-the-box” as possible.
How was Team England selected?
Team England 2019 was decided by a selection committee of Tom Mawdsley, Chris Tomlin, Nigel Chorlton, Ady McWalter, and Paul Buckler. All experienced tournament players and long-standing members of the English Warhammer scene.
Public applications were open from October 2018 for thirty days.
Rankings and tournament results were not the only criteria for selection. But conduct, army flexibility, and play-style all featured in the selection process.
Team England 2019
So, as announced at the beginning, Team England 2019 is:
Jack Armstrong
Russ Veal
Tony Moore
Les Martin
Darren Watson
Byron Orde
Tom Mawdsley (Non-playing Captain / Coach / Manager)
Now for a quick word from Tom Mawdsley as Captain:
“We had the opportunity to select a team that not only fit my mandate of being (in my opinion) the team that will absolutely go out and win the ETC, but also each player on the team has experience in International team events, I believe this experience is invaluable at an event such as the ETC. The team are all extremely flexible players, gentlemen on the table and will be amazing ambassadors for the country. There’s some real pedigree on the team, and i’m sure you’ll get behind the team throughout the year as we attend events and practice with armies that we might take to the ETC!”
Tom Mawdsley
Tom Mawdsley, Team England 2019 Non-playing Captain, Coach and Selector. Tom has four ETC caps as selector, coach and player before under 7th and 8th edition Warhammer Fantasy. Tom has been rocking the Daughters of Khaine for the last six months, with notable recent results being:
1st at Element Games Grand Slam (52 players) with Daughters
6th at Blood and Glory (166 players) with Daughters
9th at Blood Tithe (76 players) with Kharadron Overlords
You can check out Tom’s thoughts on Daughters of Khaine on Warhammer TV here.
Jack Armstrong
A man who needs no introduction to the English tournament scene, Mr 400 himself, Jack Armstrong. Jack is a long-standing member of Warhammer ETC teams past with several attendances during Warhammer Fantasy battle days.
Jack finished the 2018 season first in the UK rankings with a highly respectable 395.45 (out of 400). His recent highlights include:
1st at BOBO (86 players) with Stormcast Eternals
1st at SCGT (100 players) with Order
1st at Blood Tithe (76 players) with Stormcast Eternals
4th at the London GT (66 players) with Seraphon
1st at Facehammer GT (91 players) with Stormcast Eternals
If you are interested in Jack’s thoughts on team tournaments and list-building, you can check out his show with me here.
Russ Veal
Another man who needs little introduction, Russ “the Face” Veal has been to numerous ETCs, won the UK masters and is a member of the Facehammer podcast.
With a lighter tournament year in 2018 than years past, Russ finished 14th in the rankings with Best in Race honours for Legion of Sacrament and Nighthaunt. Russ notably won the Blood and Glory Championships with 166 players.
Tony Moore
Tony Moore, Master of Death and the Orange Hoodie, proud member of the Marauders, previous ETC team member, and avid tournament attendee. Tony finished the 2018 season 8th on the UK rankings with notable results being:
1st at GW Heat 3 (88 players) with Disciples of Tzeentch
9th at BOBO (86 players) with Daughters of Khaine
4th at Element Games Grand Slam (52 players) with Grand Host of Nagash
4th at Blood and Glory (166 players) with Grand Host of Nagash
Tony gave a Masterclass show for Tzeentch and list-building under AoS 1 here if you are interested. He has also been a regular on Warhammer TV (his most recent show is here).
Les Martin
Les Martin, proud creator of the Les Martin™ Stormcast build, podcaster, prize-winning painter and bespectacled player of Order. Les has mainly been running Idoneth Deepkin this year, but will we see a return to Stormcast Eternals or Sylvaneth for the event? (only time will tell).
Picture supplied…
Les is making his ETC debut, after being in the England 6 Nations team for the last 2 years, performing extremely well in the role he was given both years.
Darren Watson
Darren Watson, UK AoS tournament dancing champion, ferocious list-writer, owner of the world’s best postal-themed army, and all-round nice guy. The second ETC debutant in Team England. Darren had a great 2018 season, finishing 6th in the rankings running mainly Chaos (Blades of Khorne, Nurgle, Maggotkin of Nurgle etc). Darren’s notable results were:
1st at the London GT (66 players) with Maggotkin
2nd at Blood Tithe (76 players) with Seraphon
3rd at SCGT (100 players) with Maggotkin
7th at BOBO (86 players) with Nurgle.
If you are interested in more from Darren, you can check out his AoS 1 Archaon Masterclass he wrote for the site. Over 4,000 words of list-tech goodness.
Finally, by no means least, we have the third ETC debutant, Byron Orde(r). Byron is the face of Element Games, a pro-painter, lover of grey, and has shocked the world with fantastic results from seemingly a bundle of Order models just picked off a shelf. Byron took 1st at the Games Workshop GT final in 2017 and has only built from there with consistent GT performances. Notable results for the 2018 season include:
The European Team Championships (ETC), the World Cup of Warhammer, will host an Age of Sigmar event from August 9-11, 2019 in Novi Sad, Serbia. The ETC is a tabletop miniature game tournament that has been held every year since 2006. In 2018, it was held in Zagreb, Croatia and attended by more than 1,000 wargamers from all over the world. The three main events last year were The 9th Age, Warhammer 40,000 and Flames of War, but in years past it was the premier international tournament for Warhammer Fantasy Battles.
After a test event with four teams this year, 2019 promises to be the first main year for Age of Sigmar at the ETC. Traditionally, the ETC is an 8 person team tournament involving national teams selected by countries around the world. In the days of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, teams from 30-40 countries competed over three days.
In the build-up to the 2019 ETC, I”ll be covering the event, the rules pack and the teams attending. And in today’s post, I have the first press release ever published on the site – the announcement of the US ETC team by ETC 2019 Team USA captain, Bill Souza. The pictures are my handiwork.
Team USA for Age of Sigmar at ETC 2019
Thank you everyone for taking the time to read this post. For those of you who are not aware, as of 2018, AoS now has an international team event that is a part of the ETC. This is a very exciting step for the global AoS community and a promising sign of growth for the relatively new game.
Over the past two years myself and a small group of like-minded individuals have been working on preliminary preparations in the event that the aforementioned scenario became a reality. I personally feel that bringing a US team over to Europe is an equally positive sign of growth in the US AoS community. When the event was announced; I took the opportunity to claim captainship of the first Team USA for AoS ETC beginning in 2019 in Novi Sad, Serbia. I am hoping this is met with nothing but overwhelming positivity and support as this dedicated group of players is about to (and have) invest(ed) significant portions of their personal time and personal finances to represent our country.
All this being said; I am proud to announce our first ever Team USA AoS:
This group of players was not selected in a popularity contest (some recognizable names and some not). They were selected off several key qualities that are needed for a successful team. They are all extremely skilled, sporting, and dedicated. They certainly know how to play to get victories one on one and if the situation requires; play for victories for the team. Many have team format and ETC experience.
