Good day to you fellow wargamers and welcome to another set
of ramblings! I hope you have been
making progress with your models in whatever way it is. For me I’ve been working on assembling models
from GenCon and so I wanted to talk briefly about a particular set of
them. In this case I’m going to go over
Guild Ball, yes that’s right the game of low-fantasy medieval rugby!
So while we were at GenCon I was excited to see that
Steamforged Games had a booth and of course being the excited gamer I went by
to check them out. The amount of people
rushing the booth was incredible. That
boot was so busy it was unreal, I’m not sure Steamforged realized how popular
they would have been. I think it was
just a glob of people watching demo games and they were just running demo games
over and over and over.
So when Courtney and I were able to get a demo game in it
was pretty quick and straight-forward. Our
demo guy was a great guy by the name of Jaime who is part of the GBHL crew on
YouTube (link to their channel can be found right here). He did a fantastic job of teaching us yanks
the basic mechanics behind Guild Ball.
We could tell he was worn down since he probably ran demo after demo
non-stop. He took the time to give us a
rundown of each faction, mostly for my wife’s sake than mine (I’ve been reading
up on GB for a while now).
So those who know my wife knows that she is a gentle, quiet
kind of woman who’s interest in miniature gaming can be best described as
mild. She enjoys the occasional game of
Warmachine, has been getting into painting, and likes being a part of our local
gaming group. She does not get super
excited and obsessive like I do when it comes to gaming. So when my wife, after being given an
explanation of Guild Ball mechanics/factions, rather quickly declared her
chosen guild and said we should buy into it before I did, well you can imagine
my surprise and delight. So she chose
the Alchemist’s and I went with the Mortician’s guild. Some money exchanged later and we were on our
way to getting ready for some matches.
So today I wanted to just give a quick little blurb on the
models themselves. The models are made
from white metal and to be honest are fairly easy to assemble. Out of the 21 models I’ve assembled only a
few had any noticeable flash on them and even then it was not in large
amounts. Mold lines were minimal and so
most of them were not hard to clean off.
There were a few places that were a bit odd to get a file in there but I
think I either managed to get at them with some angle work or I decided to
leave it alone and hope for the best.
The larger models had nubs and spots for pieces to fit in but mostly
were solid pieces requiring no pinging whatsoever. Overall they were quick to assemble and once
I cleaned them up it took about an hour to get a whole team up.
The one thing I will say is that the tabs for the slotted
bases were either hit or miss. Some of
the models’ tabs were perfect fits and clung to the sides allowing the super
glue to hold on. For other models
thought the tabs were waaaaaaaaaay
too skinny to be effective and required some bending to get the connection
points in. I would say the ratio really was
about 50/50 in terms of being perfect or not but it really wasn’t an issue. More of a minor inconvenience really. Speaking of the bases most of them will
require some sort of filler to close the gap in if you care about that sort of
thing. I am thinking of using green
stuff to fill it in but will take suggestions.
As you can see I was able to get both of our teams assembled
and put together in about 2 days work (2 hours per day that is lol), so the
wife and I are now ready to toss around the ball and knock each other’s teeth out! That’s about it for our introductory foray
into the game of Guild Ball, if you are interested here is a link to
Steamforged Games. The rules are free as
well as stat cards and even paper doll cutouts if you want to try the game
before buying in. Until next time fellow
gamers take care and happy gaming!
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