March 20, 2019

Guild Ball: Re-Printing Single Sided Cards

Back in November I printed out single sided Guild Ball cards that a gentlemen in the UK had pieced together.  The single sided cards work great and I love them, but with the recent errata that was released a few weeks ago, some of the updated cards did not print right and some information were being cut off.

The images that this gentlemen pieced together were not planned to be printed on a photo 4x6 paper, but instead on printed on normal paper, trimmed and then laminated.  The cost and time of doing it that way is much more than just printing a photo 4x6.

After looking at some of the cards that were printed, my OCD in me kicked off and I needed to try and make these cards look better for photo 4x6 printing.

I tested it with the new Cook's Minor Guild and I loved how they came out, so yesterday I went ahead and tackled the remaining 16 Guilds and re-printed every single card all over again.

Now that I have the program and template all figured out, when Steamforged Games releases new cards, I have the process down pact and can easily get the single sided cards created.

I have the current Season 4 cards available HERE for anyone to download and print.

Example of old prints.

Example of new prints.

Side by side comparison.

March 19, 2019

March 18, 2019

Weekly Chronicle 2019 #11

Week #11 for 2019 is now in the books and it was a "good" week, not bad, not great, just good.

Wednesday night I was able to throw down my Navigator's Guild and get in a game vs Hunter's, and on Friday I was actually able to finish painting another model for my Butcher's Guild with the new 'Veteran Boar'.

Then on Saturday I hosted my first ever Guild Ball Tournament down in South Bend, IN and I think it was very successful.  We had 15 players come out for the event, and I hope everyone had a good time.

What is in store for this week? I have a 'Mataagi' for the Hunter's Guild that I think my son is going to want me to finish for AdeptiCon, not sure if it will be completed but it will be close, and then we still need to practice practice practice.  We have no major plans coming up this weekend, so it may be a perfect time to get in quite a few Guild Ball and X-Wing games in before AdeptiCon, we shall see....

March 17, 2019

Guild Ball: "Cooking with a Roast" Recap

Yesterday, I hosted my first Guild Ball tournament, as a Pundit and overall ever and I want to say it was a pretty good success.  My event "Cooking with a Roast" (named after the Cook's Guild being officially released the day before) was held at Fantasy Games in South Bend, IN (a nicely sized venue) that had plenty of room to host 16 players, I think anymore players, it wold intrude on other space in the store needed for their other products.

South Bend, IN was a nice central location and reached out and attracted players from the North in Michigan, the West in Illinois, the East in Ohio and players from it's own State of Indiana.

I had to dress like a Chef

There was a full event of 16 players registered on Longshanks, but one of the local players actually did not check-in so the event started with 15 player and would have to have a bye each round.  I was prepared to play in place of the bye, but on my drive down to the store, I received a message that the person who would help me with the event could not make it, so I was going at it solo.  Even though i have experience running other miniature gaming events, being my first Guild Ball event, I wanted to be dedicated to the players that came out to play.



The first Round my son took the bye (seeing how we probably had the closest drive than anyone else, I did not want anyone else to sit out the first Round), so that left my son 1-0 after Round 1 and Longshanks had him paired up against Alex Botts (World's number 1 ranked player, and a very nice guy to talk with).  I think that made his day for my son, especially when he even was able to get a Goal.

Dragi (Left) vs Alex (Right)

The event went to Round 4, and on the top table it was Alex Botts (IL) with his Blacksmith's Guild vs Eric Bemus (IN) and his Butcher's Guild.  In the end, it was Alex with a 12-4 win.

Final Round, Alex (Left) vs Eric (Right)
Here are the final standings for the event:

Final Standings
Awards
Left to Right: Eric M "Golden Spoon", Eric B "2nd Place", Pat V "3rd Place", Alex B "1st Place"
I want to THANK everyone again for coming out, and I hope everyone had a good time.  Here are a few more pictures from the event.












March 15, 2019

Guild Ball: Cook's Guild Cards Officially Relased

I think with the recent announcement from Steamforged Games that the Cook's Minor Guild will also be seeing a delay in their release for the United States (official release date is today 3/15), the news of their cards has been quiet today from SFG.

The Cook's Minor Guild cards can be found on Steamforged Games Resources page HERE.

Guild Ball: Butcher's Guild 'Veteran Boar'

With the release of the four new Captains two weeks for Guild Ball, and one of them being a new Captain for my favorite Guild, the Butcher's Guild, it was only obvious that 'Veteran Boar' (also known as VCB) would be the first of the new Captains to hit my painting table.

The new Captain models are being produced in the new colored resin that Steamforged Games has switched too, eliminating their metal productions, and I am not a fan of the resin.  One of 'VCB's weapons easily snapped off his belt, and even back when I worked on 'Rookie Seenah', one of the collars had snapped on that model.  Some companies produce very nice resin models that are more sturdy (Privateer Press), but the resin that SFG is using is too soft/brittle.  I personally prefer their metals models first, followed by the PVC (plastic) models.  My Miner's models also are colored resin, we shall how they look like when it comes time to assembling them.

I really was in no rush to complete 'VCB', the only timeline I had was by the end of this month so I could use him at AdeptiCon 2019 (where the convention policy is that every model must be painted for every game system).  Once I had him assembled, a little paint here and there and finally yesterday afternoon he was completed.



 Veteran Captain Boar

 Veteran Captain Boar

Veteran Captain Boar

Painting Points: 2

March 14, 2019

Battle Report: Guild Ball 3/13/2019 Navigator's vs Hunter's

Last night it was another game of Guild Ball, and I decided to give the Navigator's another try on the Pitch.

This time instead of playing with the box 6, I swapped out 'Horizon' for 'Angel' to help with a bit more scoring.  My son was practicing with his Hunter's once again, and his second time swapping 'Chaska' for 'Mataagi'.

 
Windfinder
Wander
Azimuth
Ebb
Fathom
Angel
 Theron
Fahad
V Minx
Seenah
Hearne
Mataagi


Proxy 'Horizon' for 'Angel', I was lazy to dig out the 'Angel' model.


I elected to Kick Off with 'Ebb' to get the match going.  This game was back and forth on the Pitch and on the Clock.  'Theron' used Pinned to stop an early Turn 1 Goal for my Navigators and it was no score after Turn 1 but a lot of clock was chewed up for both of us. 

Turn 2 the Hunter's were able to get Taken Outs on 'Ebb', 'Windfinder' and 'Azimuth', but the Navigator's were able to get a nice Goal with a linked 'Fathom'/'Angel' activation.  By the time Turn 2 was over, the clock had expired for the Hunter's and it was close for my Navigators's,  end of Turn 2 it was 7-6 Navigator's. 

Turn 3 the Hunter's did another Taken Out on 'Ebb' and the score was tied 8-8 and the extended 5:00 clock for the Hunter's had expired giving the Navigator's a 12-8 win.  We played out the next Activation and 'Angel' was able to easily retrieve the free ball and do a Tap-in shot on Goal and scored.

March 12, 2019

X-Wing: Mini Duels Tournament Tray

Since I have gotten back into X-Wing with the release of 2.0 back in September, I have been looking around for some compact tournament trays to hold our movement sticks and ships while moving tables in between rounds.

There were some European companies that had some very nice acrylic ones, but the ship trays were not yet updated to 2.0 (adding a medium sized ship), I noticed the same thing while looking for some made out of MDF here in the US.

Then last week I decided to take another look at Mini Duels (I knew that I had made MDF trays and are US based) and came across a compact X-Wing try that now had slots for medium sized ships and was exactly what I was looking for.  So I decided to go ahead and order 2 sets (one for me and one for my son) and was hoping it would be here in time for AdeptiCon.

Well shipping was quick and last Friday my trays arrived and I assembled/glued them that night.  Yesterday I decided to take some time and paint them up black like I did with my Guild Ball tray.

The trays are now complete and ready for AdeptiCon.






March 11, 2019

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