I'm really very lucky. My club, the Chelmsford Bunker, has a lot of
talented people who are club members and a couple of those are directly
involved with Guild Ball, the mob football game by Steamforged Games.
Mat
Hart is one of the game designers - and he's been a regular at my club
for ages. I used to see him occasionally on the daily commute to London
and we'd chat about wargaming and his idea for the new game which, of
course, became Guild Ball. The Bunker members did a lot of playtesting
of the rules so for me it feels like Guild Ball has been around
forever. I didn't have the cash to join in on the initial Kickstarter
campaign when it was first released so my first Guild Ball minis were
bought at Salute in 2015 when they were first released. Mat sold a
Butchers team me personally which was pretty cool - they are his
favourites so they were the team for me.
The other link to Guild
Ball is that the club President, Sherwin Matthews, is the lead story
writer for the game. I can't count the number of times I saw him and
Mat in the upstairs bar discussing story development while all the rest
of the club was playing games in the hall below. Sherwin really has
breathed the life and soul into the game.
As for me, I have,
since I got my Butchers team back at Salute last year, bought two other
teams which were Masons and Brewers. I bought the extra players to
maximise the teams and duly put them in the lead mountain to mature
while I was concentrating on painting Blood Bowl pretty much all of last
year. With the release of the 2nd Season rules, I've decided to get my
feet wet and actually play the game. The club is running a Big League
and I have joined in, albeit a little late to the party. I am scheduled
to be playing my first full game this Wednesday and I've painted up my
Butchers team ready to go. My first game is against Sherwin - but he
assures me he is rubbish at the game and just plays for fun so it should
all be good. I have found the minis very different from the Blood Bowl
minis I have been painting for more than a year - they are so detailed and individual, I have found it hard to batch paint them. So - they're
not my best work and I'm not sure I themed them particularly well but
they are done. I have only just bought the Season 2 extra minis for the
Butchers so I will probably add those soon. Then I will have my Masons
and Brewers to paint. It should be good to paint and play something
other than Blood Bowl just to give me other options for gaming at the
club. I know I will always get a game of Guild Ball there!
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| Team Captain - Ox |
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| Mascot - Princess |
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| Striker - Brisket |
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| Winger - Boiler |
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| Winger - Shank |
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| Attacking Midfielder - Meathook |
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| Attacking Midfielder - Boar |
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| Butchers Guild |
