Steamfoged Games Guild Ball: Hunter Blessed of The Sun Father Expanded Starter Set Miniature Game Figure
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Guild Ball, and for Steamforged as a whole! We’ve released multiple videos over the past couple of weeks, including a live Guild Ball Q&A , a Guild Ball community address , and our 10-year anniversary kick-off . So, whichever video or post led you here, and whether you’re a new or returning player, this post should have the information you’re looking for. We’ll be answering multiple key questions, including: As of today, we’ve made every official Guild and Minor Guild available to order right here on the site. For those new to Guild Ball, we’ve also made the entire starter set free to download , so you can 3D-print the minis yourself and give the beautiful game a go! As part of this, we’re working with the Guild Ball Community Project who have been, and continue to be, fantastic custodians of the game. For more details on the background behind this decision, check out our 10-year anniversary kick-off video for a quick overview, and the Guild Ball Q&A and community address if you’re a returning player or would like more in-depth info. We wanted to give more people a way to play Guild Ball, which is why we’re releasing the entire starter set for free. If you’re new to Guild Ball, click here to find out more about the game. To get the digital STL files, PDF cards, and PDF rulebook for the Guild Ball starter set, just head to this link . These files won’t cost you anything, so you can download them right away, print the miniatures yourself using a 3D printer, and start playing! To help you get s tarted playing the game, check out Watch It Played’s fantastic tutorial below. If you don’t have access to a 3D printer , but would still like to get the starter set teams, you can order the Brewers here , Masons here , and Lucky here . You’ll need to download and print the cards, too, which you can find here . There’s also an online rulebook . Every official Guild and Minor Guild is now available to order here on the site! To see the full collection, click here . Once you’ve placed your order, your minis will be produced in high-quality grey resin, no assembly required. It could take up to 7 days for delivery, depending on where you’re based and what shipping service you choose. Bulk orders of £200 or more (with free shipping) could take up to 30 days. You’ll need to download and print the cards (and rulebook, if you like), which you can find here in our resources section . As part of the announcement, we confirmed we’d be updating the Guild Ball cards / rules to incorporate some of the great changes made by the Guild Ball Community Project (GBCP). We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: the GBCP have done a wonderful job carrying the torch for Guild Ball and we’re incredibly thankful for all their efforts. We spoke about this in more detail in our Q&A and address videos , but our intention isn’t to wade in and take over. The GBCP are still very much active and we’re working alongside them. In that vein, after more conversations with the GBCP, we’ve collectively agreed not to release the 4.4 update just yet. Our collaboration is a new venture for all of us, and it’s an important one to get right, which means we’ve got a bit more work to do together before the updated cards are ready to release. We’ve had some positive and productive conversations with the GBCP so far, and we’re excited to see what the future holds. In the meantime, you can download the most recent official cards and rulebook here . We’ve been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support for Guild Ball since the announcement. Guild Ball was the first game we brought into the world, and to say it still holds a special place in our hearts would be an understatement. Still, we feel it’s important to take things slow and steady. Right now, our main goal is to give Guild Ball a place to live on and a way for new players to get into the game, which we now have. We talked a bit about next steps in our live Q&A , and we’ll have a post in the next week or two following that up. To make sure you don’t miss it, sign up to the newsletter . For now, Guild Ball is available again for anyone and everyone who’d like to play, including the free starter set . If you’d like to chat with us or hang out with other fans, you can find us in the Steamforged Discord . We’d love to see photos of your matches, check out your mini painting progress, and hear about your games, so do come and say hello! There’s also a great community Discord run by the Guild Ball Community Project, which you can join here . Until next time! Get the latest news The updates you want, straight to your inbox. Your Cart is Empty $0.00 USD Timothy Linward Published: Feb 2, 2024 Publisher Steamforged Games has made Guild Ball, the competitive wargame that launched the company, available once again. The UK-based firm has put the complete miniature line back into production on a made-to-order basis, with a free downloadable starter set containing the STLs necessary to 3D print two starter teams. Steamforged announced the return of Guild Ball via YouTube on Thursday, in a presentation for the firm’s 10th anniversary. Guild Ball was the first miniature wargame that Steamforged ever published, which sees members of opposing fantasy guilds playing raucous ‘mob football’. The game has been out of production since August 2020. In the video, co-founder Mat Hart says: “We can’t leave Guild Ball where it is, it’s still a game we talk about almost daily”. The firm had previously stated that Guild Ball was not economical to produce, but Hart says “the advancement of print on demand” technology for miniatures now makes the game a going concern: “every mini for guild ball is now available for anyone who wants to play”. The Kick Off! starter set is available to download from the Steamforged Games website, though you’ll need a 3D printer to make all the components, including the Brewers and Masons starter teams. You can’t beat a price like “free”, and they’re nice sculpts that make for interesting DnD miniatures . Hart acknowledges the role that the game’s long standing community has played in maintaining the game and bringing changes to the rules; the new starter set incorporates some of these changes into a “quintessential” Guild Ball rulebook. Hart and co-founder Rich Loxam were active organisers in the vibrant Warmachine tournament scene of the 2010s, and refined many ideas from that game into the design of Guild Ball. It was designed with tournament play in mind from the start, and had a very successful tournament circuit for much of its lifespan. Want to branch out into more wargames? We’ve recently published a guide to the best fantasy wargames , and we’ve also got a guide to the weirdest wargames if you want to try something really out there. If you want to keep up with the latest board game news from Wargamer, follow us on Google news . Timothy Linward Our newest full time staff writer, Tim Linward is a Warhammer 40k and Horus Heresy fanatic who dabbles in TTRPGs, board games and MTG . You'll often find him delving through Games Workshop's financial reports for gaming news, combing the indie wargaming scene for cool new titles, or listening to yet more Warhammer 40k books for deep 40k lore. He's also written for PCGamesN , and 'Grimdark', his book of essays about Warhammer 40k and Games Workshop, will be published by Strange Attractor Press when it finally emerges from the warp. 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The idea is that they are looking to make the game more approachable to newcomers once again by making the various teams and terrain available as 3D Prints via a partnership with MyMiniFactory. Initially, free STL files will be made available based on Guild Ball's Kickoff Set covering the Masons and the Brewers as well as terrain, tokens and the other widgets that you need. From there, additional files will be made available via MyMiniFactory and delivered to your door by them. Their idea is not to step on the toes of the Guild Ball Community Project and the rest of the community and their projects that have kept Guild Ball alive since the end of support for the game in 2020. The community has and is being consulted to make sure that they don't split the community or take things in a direction not wanted by the player base. In that spirit, Steamforged Games also held a Q&A this week hoping to answer some of the questions people have about their path forward... The response to the news has been mixed but after looking through the comments and questions from the Q&A, it seems like a fair few people are happy to be getting the miniatures back so they can build on their teams. Time will tell as to how the relationship with the community projects goes but it seems positive for the moment. Are you a Guild Ball fan and if so, what do you think of the news? "Initially, free STL files will be made available based on Guild Ball's Kickoff Set..." Supported by (Turn Off) (/browse-advert-free/) Supported by (Turn Off) (/browse-advert-free/) Supported by (Turn Off) (/browse-advert-free/) A way to get my hands on some fine figures and not be raked over the coals on price? Brilliant! Damn. I knew I should’ve got those figures on fkeabay sooner ? Great game. Glad to see it coming back with some formal support. It will be interesting to see how the dedicated fans take this. Steamforged didn’t handle the end of production very well, as they admit themselves in the video. An understandable decision by Steamforged to end production when they did. Games like this will cycle in and out of favour. A beautiful product(including spectacular art) with solid rules that a gamer can play until the end of time …just not all the time. They certainly couldn’t rely on a bunch of rubes to keep buying the same product (or variations thereof) again and again at ridiculous prices so they could never paint or play with them. I was expecting they would return in a few years from now with revamped rules and product (to start the hype again), but … Read more » Guildball still is one of my favourite games. The apology is there, I won’t comment further, but its there. What it cannot change is Steamforged are still a company with no issues taking advantage of backers and local stores, so not a company that deserves support. Will keep an eye on it though, hopefully it does positive things for the community. If I fill in a few gaps or not I have not decided Still have my Engineers but haven’t played in years. Haven’t kept up on the rules but might be worth brushing up on. Very good! 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All trademarks and images are copyright of their respective owners. Fantasy football miniatures game Guild Ball returns from retirement, kind of. Publisher Steamforged Games announced an officially sanctioned line of print-on-demand files and will release updated rules that support this new version for free. Fans hoping for a full-throated rededication to the Blood Bowl-esque skirmish sport will need to temper their reservations. Steamforged co-founders Mat Hart and Rich Loxom said that the studio would love to eventually “actively support development” if “people rediscover [Guild Ball] again”. Translation: once it becomes financially viable. In the meantime, Steamforged will release free STL files for Guild Ball’s Kickoff Set that players can use to print their own copies of the Masons and Brewers Guild teams, plus terrain, tokens and a measuring stick. This is essentially all of the components sold in Guild Ball’s original starter box, which is vanishingly rare to find since the game was initially cancelled back in 2020 . The files aren't yet available but will hit Steamforged's website in the near future. Based on European soccer, Guild Ball rose from a Kickstarter campaign back in 2014 and developed five seasons of expansions and lore before Steamforged ended development, burying plans for a range of minor guilds. Hart and Roxley blamed the COVID-19 pandemic at the time, while also pointing fingers at a competitive scene necessarily collapsing the creative space for wild and goofy elements. ““As the competitive scene began to dominate, the design space for wilder, more ‘fun’ elements began to shrink,” they wrote at the time. “The style of gameplay changed to low-risk, ultra-conservative play where the ball was often deliberately side-lined.” Now, the two co-founders regret those words: “Obviously, Guild Ball is currently parked in terms of development for us, and that announcement did not go down terribly well. That’s on me - I wrote the announcement. The message I was trying to convey wasn’t the message that was heard,” Hart said. “It’s on both,” Roxley rejoined. “We didn’t ever intend to blame the community, and that’s what was taken from it. And we’re sorry for that. We let people down.” The intervening three years apparently fostered enough widespread availability of 3D printers and other print-on-demand services that Steamforged believes Guild Ball’s playerbase can jumpstart the scene without purchasing boxes directly from the publisher. Every original model has been retouched to address common complaints - “thinness of ankles, contact points with bases, overall balance points,” Hart said - and he worked with senior project manager Jamie Perkins to synthesise balancing and updates created by the Guild Ball Community Project committees (a fan endeavour) into a new official engine that should feel like classic Guild Ball with modern sensibilities. “We wanted to recognise the hard work they’ve done and the custodianship that they demonstrated the last two or three years,” Hart said. For now, Guild Ball lives again on Steamforged’s website instead of collecting dust in the equipment locker.