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I've always loved Blood Bowl and can't wait for its return, but I keep reading about this Guild Ball game and it's piqued my interest, especially because my flgs carries the minis.

A few Qs:

1) Is it progression based, or skirmish/character based?

2) How long does the average game take?

3) How are the rules compared with, say, Blood Bowl? Is it a bit more 'serious'?

4) Starter boxes seem to have 3 miniatures per box for each faction, is that enough figures for a basic game?

1 skirmish/character.

2- 80ish mins?

3- much cleaner and give you more control. Not sure what "serious" means.

4 - a starter game. 6 total (including a mascot) is your target.

Groundh0g wrote:
I've always loved Blood Bowl and can't wait for its return, but I keep reading about this Guild Ball game and it's piqued my interest, especially because my flgs carries the minis.

A few Qs:

1) Is it progression based, or skirmish/character based?

2) How long does the average game take?

3) How are the rules compared with, say, Blood Bowl? Is it a bit more 'serious'?

4) Starter boxes seem to have 3 miniatures per box for each faction, is that enough figures for a basic game?

Guild Ball is not quite as crazy over the top as Blood Bowl. In a full game, as stated earlier you have a team of 6: A captain, a mascot(which actually does play as part of the team) and then four other players: either ones from your particular guild, or ones from "The Union," a mercenary guild that you can field as its own team, or their members will each play for certain other teams. You can play smaller games with just starter boxes, but those don't tend to be as balanced, and really are better for just learning the game mechanics.

The basic rules are pretty easy to learn, and each player has its own special abilities and playbook. Much like Warmachine, all of these are on cards which you can easily refer to during the game.

It's a really good ruleset, with great balance between the teams and a lot of fun to play. You can also go to the Steamforged website http://steamforged.com/guildball, and download the rules, templates, cards and paper dolls for the players to print out and use, so you can try it out with basically the cost of printing on card paper. Just a quick note to be aware of when printing: as it's an English game, the paper size is slightly different than in America, so you'll have to adjust your printing.

There's also a really good review/explanation of the game that Tabletop Gaming did, you can find it here: http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/if-you-can-guild-a-wrench-you-can-guild-a-ball-a-review-of-guild-ball/.

Thanks guys, appreciate the replies. Sounds interesting, I'm looking for a skirmish/casual game that doesn't require a huge investment of cash to get something together, so this sounds like it might be up my alley.

Groundh0g wrote:
Thanks guys, appreciate the replies. Sounds interesting, I'm looking for a skirmish/casual game that doesn't require a huge investment of cash to get something together, so this sounds like it might be up my alley.

It's pretty great for that.

Hope you enjoy!

Groundh0g wrote:
I'm looking for a skirmish/casual game that doesn't require a huge investment of cash to get something together,

http://steamforged.com/guildball

It is all free to start off, including paper models, the rules, tokens, etc.
The only bits you need are a table and dice.
Download it, print and cut out the bits you want to try, and get the minis if you like it enough.

But, it can cost a far bit if you want to get the whole thing.
Spend what you want.
I just went to the official store and filled a basket with everything I might want for a season 2 game, using all 6 season 1 Engineers players. It came to £179.35, for all the tokens, dice, pitch, metal models, and tokens. You don't have to buy any of this, but it's there if you do