Bob's Guild Ball Blog

Hello Guild Ballers, As my musings from last time were somewhat uncoördinated, so was my gameplay. I lost to Obulus 4-14. Obulus brought: Dirge, Cosset, Bonesaw, oGraves and Silence to the table. I brought the suggested bad fun list of Hammer, Marbles, oHarmony, Granite, Chisel, Lucky. Before hand I thought I could score with oHarmony at the very least, but man this team is INF hungry.  I ended up doing almost nothing with oHarmony and Chisel and used Granite, Lucky and Hammer most of the time.  Marbles was in the action most of the time, but without much to do. Short Summary: For Turn 1 on my side nothing much happened, I kept most of my players back and the morticians kicked the ball around, missed the pass to Bonesaw (typical) so the ball ended up on Silence instead of on Bonesaw - Bonesaw moved to midfield where I knocked him down after charging with Lucky.  After that Lucky dodged away and Silence dodged forward. Turn 2 put the hurt on Bonesaw, who s...

Hello Guild Ballers! Welcome back to my blog where I will shortly touch on 2 games I played this evening. In the morning I packed up all my guild ball and left for work.  No Idea what I was going to field later that evening, I asked the interwebs over social media ( Facebook ) what the worst 6-man team (guild only, so no union) was that they could think of.   (Also hinting at not pitching farmers (As I don't own them + all reapers = no fun to be had), Hunters (as they are unassembled and unpainted) or Blacksmiths (since I left the handy 6-man box at home - unpainted). This was the first team opted by Mike Smith: Captain: Seasoned brisket Mascot: Coin Player 1: Fangtooth Player 2: Hemlocke Player 3: Grace Player 4: Harry the hat As I had all players in my bag (Grace unpainted and with an arm that fell off and Seasoned Brisket only half painted) I thought: why not.  I started reading the cards, knowing I'd face the Blacksmiths as they come in Box 1 (Anvil, Sl...

Hello Guild Ballers! I'm here to tell you about how I did in our local tournament.  My heart wasn't really into it for some reason.  As you may have noticed by my lack of posting on my blog here.  Still, I love Guild Ball!  And I'm sorry to keep you waiting (the few of you that come and read this ;-) ) Preparation: I got up early and drove up to the venue to arrive before opening time.  I started reading the paper and was let in moments later as the TO arrived with one of the shop owners. I helped a little to set up the tables and greeted old friends from other clubs untill the TO called out for match-ups for round 1: Game one ( my game 57) vs Christoph Moons : 0 - 12 Brewers vs Alchemists (Smoke) I fielded Tapper - Scum - Stave - Hooper - Mash - Stoker. For some reason I wanted to pull of a play with Mash and Stave pushing a model 8" of the board.  I got so drawn into this that I didn't pay attention to what was going on at all on the boa...

Hello Guild Ballers! Welcome back to my blog and bare with me for 4 more games, 2 of them will be mentioned here...  I took pictures of game 53 against Tom Lacore our new pundit in Gent.  He wanted to get punished by Tapper again and that is indeed what happened.  I opted to give another union player a go in the name of Harry the Hat.  I did like him, especially with rising anger, but I only got momentum from it twice.  I don't remember specifics about the game other than it was a very close game.  I also got some fragments back from looking at the picture below: In the above picture you can see I was farming momentum off Collosus, softening him up with Friday and getting Momentum with Harry.  I believe it is ratchet you see up there attempting to split us up. Below that group you can see Spigot in some rubble.  It was put there to prevent him from getting to Ballista.  But good ol' Spigot has his heroic to annul that, and was lucky en...

Hello Guild Ballers!! I know I'm behind on my match reports...  so far behind I have no recollection of some of the events...  But today I'll be catching up!  I had some notes, written down previously of my 50th game, so this might be an ok read...  Expect the quality to go down after this report though... I hope to make good on all this starting from my games I'll play march 11th in Gent, where I'm attending another tournament! Today you'll read about a drinking contest I had, kinda. I agreed to play another brewer team in my local gaming store.  I wanted a fun game myself so I decided I would field whatever my opponent did not bring to the table.  I also opted to stay away from Union. Here's what my opponent fielded: Tapper - Quaff - Mash - Stave - ogSpigot - Hooper. This was left for me: Esters - Scum - Friday - vSpigot - PintPot - Stoker. We rolled to see who got to kick/receive; I had to kick the ball towards him on his choice. I kicked with Frid...

Hello Guild Ballers! Finally I'm back!  Forgive my abscence...  I have the perfect excuse!  I didn't play guild ball! Instead I filmed a game, and in my abscence here I worked on editing the footage of that!  Want to see? Read on ! On januari the first I witnessed a game of guild ball, Civil War.  Both coaches in our 'little league' finals play the Masons guild.  So they made an agreement : 'We'll field every player only once.'  And that's what they did. The idea was welcomed with enthousiasme in our gaming club and I offered to film the whole thing. (Having 2 GoPro's and a Sony camera at my disposal) Little did I  know what a mountain of work making a video (hopefully worth watching) is!! A date was set and I attended the event to record it all.  I didn't go very professional about it since I was drinking on the job...  But I had fun, ...not to sure about those around me!   Being drunk I had to cut a lot out of the v...

Hello Guild Ballers, Yes!  It is the time of the week where I tell you about what happened in my guild ball life.  I faced Fish for you this past week. After a busy day at home I rushed over towards Gent where my local suplier of Guild Ball crack is located.  I can tell you without shame that it was top notch stuff... I really got my dose of fun. I was keen on trying out S3 A&G or Harry.  But since I was facing a fishy team I opted to go with A&G, in my minds eye I figured the extra tackle result with Greede attached would come in handy.  Boy was I wrong!  Or rather, I didn't position A&G very well to (ab)use this tactic.  Nor did I read the playbook of either player very well...  Tackling with Greede alone is a hard thing to do as it turns out. Upon my arrival I found my local pundit still knee deep in a meeting with the board of our local gaming club.  I set up the table and orderd my drink.  No, not a Du...