Guild Ball's death has been greatly exaggerated. With the oversight of the high ministers gone, the power vacuum is quickly being filled by "entrepreneurial" coaches. The political Shadow Games are bleeding onto the pitch, as the players bleed out.
The Game: Guild Ball is a dynamic, interactive, and strategic skirmish scale game where cracking heads and striking goals are equally valid ways to win matches! This league is designed for old and new players alike, and puts the emphasis simply on playing games of Guild Ball, while also painting up new models.
The League will kick off Monday October 19th and end sometime in December, Official Tickets available soon!
Coaches manage a team of 6 players belonging to one of the "former" Guilds of the Free City. These matches are for more than just the love of the game or bragging rights. Political strife and sinister plots between guilds are settled on the pitch, and as such games are just as likely to end with violent defeat as they are with skillful play!
All the rules are free online, and can be found here.
Guild specific cards can be found here (scroll down to the GB section).
Or on the official app (iOS, Google Play), (unofficial iOS app)
To participate you need a minimum of 6 players from a Guild of your choice. Please feel free to ask Mark Popinchalk (@merkperpencherk) if you have questions about guilds.
Compete in shadow games to earn a spot in the shadow games cup!
Play Games
Prove your coaching prowess by placing highest in your pool.
Any other games played outside of your pool still count towards league standings.
Opportunity to score bonus league points in every game you play.
Painting models also will add to your league score.
Scoring Rules are listed below, and the living leaderboard will link here.
Switch guilds between games, there are no rules!
Have fun!
$15 initial Sign up fee for members. This will be for overall league prizes and having an initial fee usually leads to more committed participants.
Participants will be divided into pools.
Within your pool you are expected to play each other player twice over the course of the league.
You can schedule your games whenever, but will receive a bonus league point for each week you play at least one pool game.
At the end of pool play, league points will be awarded based on your position in the pool.
1st - 6, 2nd - 4, 3rd - 2, 4th - 1 (Tentative)
Each week, 3 new "shadow games" will be posted to the Guild Ball slack channel and this website.
They represent some kind of game state you can try to achieve during your games.
Ex. Head Hunt - "Take out the opposing captain", Gritty Mascot - "Score VP with your mascot", Long Ball - "Complete a pass from the maximum distance".
Completion of a "shadow game" earns a league point.
Can be done in any match, a pool game or otherwise.
At the end of the week, the current "shadow games" will be removed, and a new set of 3 will be posted.
Cumulative end of league totals of games/wins will also earn points.
Every 3 games played will count for an extra point
Every 3 wins will count for an extra point.
Besides pool games, you opponent does not need to be in the league.
But please don't just farm online games
You don't have to play the same Guild every game!
1 league point for every 3 models painted by the end of the league.
An image must be posted to the Carcosa Hobby Hangout Slack channel to count.
Will retroactively give points for recently painted models
If a model was painted sometime since March, it can be counted once it used in a pool game.
Goal posts and Terrain count as one model.
Every 2 ball markers count as one model.
Every 2.5 trap/harvest markers count as one model!
Models don't need to be from the same Guild.
Models must be painted to tabletop quality.
In early December there might be some kind of finale. But lets not plan that far in advance yet.
Exact prize support is still being investigated, but it will be divided like so.
Each pool will have an Organized Play Kit from Steamforged games.
First place the random model from the kit.
1st - 4th earn appropriate dice and momentum coins.
League Prizes
TBD