LD3 Teams Championship 2026

16 November - 27 December 2026 — —

Upcoming

Warhammer: The Old World

Team

Data source:New Recruit

Tournament description

Any player from any nation and time zone can participate if you're flexible enough with your time slots!

Information about the Tournament

Matched Play Book Pairings + Tie-Breakers; 20-0 System; Matrix as in MPG (escalating; 2501 VP for 20-0). Scoring and Missions are exactly played as in Matched Play Guide except Progressive Special Feature (which scores 40 at the end of player turn)

Use GermanComp Maps, those are in Warhall.
Read our Event Policies: https://tinyurl.com/LD3Events If one player wants to play with chess clocks, https://dash28.org/chess-clock/ will be used. Full guidance will be offered on the discord server (resource channel).
Please register for the tourney on LD3 Patreon – this will be also the payment method. Snotling Level is sufficient: https://www.patreon.com/LD3 Communication between players is managed on the LD3 Discord-Server, which you can reach via Patreon. Please follow this instruction: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266-Getting-Discord-access
The Tourney is played on Warhall: https://www.warhall.eu/ Note that you currently cannot automatically transfer points from Warhall to New Recruit, a guideline will be offered on the discord server (resource channel).

Timeline

14.11.26 Deadline Onboarding, Armylist, Rules

16.11.26 Pairing Release

16.11.26 Start Round 1 - Drawn Battlelines, Strategic Locations 3, Baggage Train

26.11.26 Start Round 2 - A Chance Encounter, Domination, Baggage Train

07.12.26 Start Round 3 - Encirclement, Strategic Locations 4

17.12.26 Start Round 4 - Close Quarters, Strategic Locations 2, Progressive Special Feature (40 VP per Scoring)

27.12.26 End of Tournament

Tournament Round Sequence

This is a team tournament. Rounds will consist of 7 days each.
Within 2 days, captains must have conducted the pairing procedure, which will yield the player pairings within the team match.
As soon as the player pairings are done, the players then have time until the end of the round to conduct their matches.
All games are streamed on the LD3 Discord server.
The tournament points of each teams players are added up and are the team tournament points for this round. The team tournament points are capped per round to ensure the tournament stays interesting. Cap is 63 - 37.

Disclaimer: In the face of current team events in TOW, we do not accept any position that fuels hatespeech or discrimination - or supports current invasions and acts of agressions of countries. Be aware this does not only apply to the Russian War against Ukraine. We reserve the right to exclude players which are known to support these wars, to discriminate people because of their nationality, sexual or political orientation or appearance or who try to undermine the mutual respect and trust building within the international TOW community. To be specific about the Russian war against Ukraine: A statement of condemning the invasion is expected prior to the tournament from players of Russia and Belarus. Note that this is not an exhausting list, but it is the only conflict currently relevant for the potential player base and can be extended to any active war/conflict zone. The entry fee of affected players will be used to support humanitarian helping funds. Exclusion groups for teams/players from open conflicts will be offered, so players from countries in conflict will not have to play against each other. If you need a safe moment, tell your opponent to stop the game and write immediately a TO.

Rules

On the discord server, there will be a resource channel with a full framework pack.

Comfaq is used: https://www.tinyurl.com/tow-faq In addition, WTC FAC amendments are used: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mLSd0af1GavuSYNo45q3ccW7A-b94asM/view

WTC Rules are used for Terrain, Sequences, Cannons etc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XL2hgr7zZ_Gx8myg_NkDv8Bfwi7UxL_ZNfb94PevilY/edit?tab=t.0

Tournament COMP

Team COMP:

Each Team has a Pool of 9 points, which can be spent on the following. You can bring each "Master Faction" only once:
- 4 Point Bracket: Cathay Jade Fleet, Cathay Grand Army
- 3 Point Bracket: Beastmen Wild Herd, Cathay Army of Fields and Winds, Chaos Wolves of the Sea, Tomb Kings Royal Host and Barrows Army, Vampire Counts. Hordes of Chaos, counts for both Beastmen and Chaos.
- 2 Point Bracket: Beastmen Grand Army, Dwarfs X-Force, Kingdom of Bretonnia (Any List), Orcs and Goblins Grand Army, Tomb Kings Grand Army, Warriors of Chaos Grand Army and Heralds of Darkness
- 1 Point Bracket: Chaos Dwarfs, Dwarfs Royal Clan and Slayer Host, High Elf Realms Grand Army and Chrace, Empire Nuln and Grand Army, Renegade Crowns, Tomb Kings Mortuary Cult, Wood Elves Grand Army, Tree Spirit Army and Orions Wild Hunt, Daemons of Chaos, Skaven
- 0 Point Bracket: Dark Elves, Lizardmen, Ogre Kingdoms, Host of Talsyn, Empire Knightly Orders, Sea Guard Garrison, Minotaur Blood Herd, Dwarfs Grand Army, Orcs and Goblins Nomadic Waaagh, Orcs and Goblins Troll Horde
You are allowed to enter the results of your game as Handshake vs Armies that are at least 2 Brackets above yours. If you want to do this, please notify your opponent before the game. This way the Tournament can count for the 2026 LD3 Masters Season without skewing ELO results. Get thrown under the bus, please!

Player COMP:

Non-Character units may be max. 500 pts big, Characters may be > 500 pts. No Grand Melee.
Combined Arms, unless unit is otherwise restricted in the army book, use the least restricted category allowed (-> 4x Scout Copters in X-Force). If units are pooled, only the pool counts as otherwise restricted (max. 3 Cannons)
Cathay Comp: 0-4 Fly, 0-2 Cannons, 0-3 Shugs
VC Comp: Heal Grave Guard per Wizard Level
1.5 Renegades allowed. This means this document: https://downloads.squarebased.com/renegade-packs/the-renegade-legacy-pack-v1.5.pdf The current drafts (1.5.2 onwards) are not allowed.

Tournament Pairing Sequence - use Welcome • 9th Age Builder

Captains place each one army face down, then reveal simultaneously.
Captains place two armies face down against the army their opponent placed.
Captains chose from the two offered armies one to play against the army they placed in the first step. The other army is returned to the hand. [Pairings 1 & 2]
Repeat Step 1.-3 [Parings 3 & 4]
Captains place each another one army face down, then reveal simultaenously.
Captains chose from the two remaining armies of their opponent one to play against the army they placed in step four. [Parings 5 & 6]
The two non-picked armie will then play against the armies held on the hands. Note that both Captains cannot see which army was picked in the previous step until both picked. [Pairing 7 & 8]
Captains then roll the Tables [from WTC Maps] for all 8 matches.

Coach Calls - Please keep interference during games at a minimum. For each game, there is the allowance of one "coach call" which is allowed to be initiated either by the player or the captain. A call is allowed to last 3 minutes and is the only instance in which talking over the game during the game with second-party or third-party players is allowed. The call is allowed to take place between the player and one of the other team members. Unmute your microphone and ask about the call. Go to a second voice-channel for the call. Only two people are allowed in said call. Any violation of this or chatting with other players/captains during the matches will be instantly counted as concede. If this happens more frequently, a player or team might be excluded.

Game Interference by Spectators - If rules issues come up, please contact a judge. Do not write directly to one of the two players involved by dm.

Disclaimer: Experience shows that most games on LD3 will have a very jovial, merry character and players will stay easy. I hope that this will be the case for most of the games and always remind yourself to try and stay civil. If the tense is too high, or if you need a safe moment, contact a judge. LD3 aims for fun competitive content. Small changes in pairings, schedule, deadlines, lists etc. due to personal reasons (real life is a thing) can be conducted via consulting the TO. All easiness aside, expect your opponents to be quite capable!