Alpha Clash Official Online Leagues

Starting April 14th, Rising Empire Studios introduces the Alpha Clash Online League system. Built to make organized play accessible to everyone, Online Leagues give players a competitive way to engage with Alpha Clash from anywhere as not everyone has access to a local scene or the ability to travel to major events. The Online League removes those barriers, creating a low-friction path to play, earn rewards, and stay connected. For dedicated Clashers, it’s also another meaningful way to play more and engage with the global community.

Online Leagues are free to enter and open to players worldwide. Matches are played on TCG Arena, a free browser-based platform, allowing players to compete without needing specialized software, equipment, or physical cards.

How It Works

Each Online League runs across multiple rounds using a Swiss format. Players are paired with one opponent per round and have several days to complete their Best-of-2 match.

Players coordinate match times directly, with a dedicated Discord channel available to find opponents and stay connected.

Rewards & Qualification

Players earn 100 XP for participation and each match win throughout the league.

At the conclusion of each league season, the Top 8 non-qualified players qualify for the Alpha Clash Online World Championships, where the best online competitors will face off on the global stage.

The online leagues are the only path to qualify for the Online World Championships.

Sign Up

Registration is now open via XP Network and will close when the league begins.

Now on pre-order, Armies of the British Commonwealth is your comprehensive guide to fielding Commonwealth forces on the Bolt Action tabletop. Within its 128 full-colour pages, you’ll find not one, not two, but SIX army lists, allowing you to field Australian, Canadian, East African, Indian, New Zealand, and South African forces. These lists are put together a little differently to what we’ve done previously – let’s have a look at how, and why!

The armies covered in this book broadly used the British Army as their model for doctrine, organisation, and equipment. There were, however, significant variations which developed in all of these, particularly as the war went on. As such, this book has to cover a very unusual mixture of existing British units as well as units unique to each of the nations covered, plus the different ‘character’ of each nation. So, how did we do all of that?

STANDARD COMMONWEALTH UNITS

Unusually, we’ll start at the back of the book – here, you’ll find a huge list of unit profiles drawn from Armies of Great Britain. These allow you to represent the many units common across some or all of the Commonwealth forces, without needing to have the British book on hand. We were incredibly keen for Armies of the British Commonwealth to be a true standalone book, and this was the simplest way to achieve it! This commonality is also great news for existing players. If you’ve got a British collection, congratulations – now you’ve got the foundation of a Commonwealth one, too!

ONE BOOK – SIX ARMIES

So that’s the Standard Commonwealth Units list – but you aren’t reading this article to hear about what British units you can field. You want the good stuff – and here it is!

Each of the six nations has its own standalone army list section. This begins with a historical background setting to inform your hobbying and is packed with tons of great artwork and photography to get you inspired. Each includes a full list of national special rules (which replace the ones found in Armies of Great Britain), a roster of unique units only available to that nation, and a force selection guide which combines those unique units with the relevant units from the Standard Commonwealth Units list. The national special rules also allow you to theme your ‘standard’ units – yes, that does in fact mean you can field Gurkha sniper teams, mortars, and more in an Indian force! We told you they’d come back better than ever, and over the coming weeks we’ll be doing a deep dive into each army list, so you can find out more about them in detail!

It’s important to note that Armies of the British Commonwealth was chosen as the title because most of the nations in the book are part of the Commonwealth today – of course, during the Second World War this was not the case. Regardless of their political status during the war, all of the forces represented in this book made significant contributions to the eventual Allied victory, and no offense or implication is intended by grouping them under the Armies of the British Commonwealth title.

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Coming free when you purchase Armies of the British Commonwealth from us is Havildar Umrao Singh, VC. This legendary Sikh artilleryman won the Victoria Cross during the Burma campaign while manning a Bren gun. Fighting against overwhelming numbers of Japanese attackers, Singh’s weapon ran out of ammunition, and he was swarmed. Undaunted, he picked up a large piece of metal gun-handling equipment and began laying about himself with ferocity before finally being overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers. When his body was recovered, he was astonishingly found still alive, albeit gravely wounded, surrounded by ten dead foes and many more wounded. Surviving the war, he served in the Indian Army after independence, finally dying in 2005.