Just a short update today as last night saw my second game of Guildball. I had Andy T over to the Mancave for some medieval low fantasy football as his tried and tested Butchers took on my rejigged Fishermen. Previously I had a game against Mark Southerd at NAGA where my Fishermen beat his Alchemists/Union 12-2. Last night I changed my team knowing that they’d face a far tougher prospect in the Butchers. I couldnt afford to give away easy kills with some of the squishier members of my team so I swapped out Angel for Sakana.
Here’s a bit of a report of the game as it went:-
Well that was painful.
Four takedown and a goal versus a goal from me. Ouch! Fishermens team was Shark, Salt, Jac, Sakana, Siren and Kraken.
So I had only my second game tonight against a very tanky Butchers team managed by Andy Thomas.
Shark, Salt, Jac, Sakana, Kraken and Siren vs Ox, Princess, Tenderiser, Brisket, Boar and Shank.
I received and secured the ball first activation with Shark who passed to Siren generating momentum and my team swept from the right flank down across my goal towards the left flank. The Butchers were brutally taking down my guys removing three (Kraken, Shark and Sakana) before I could score. Shark was first being soundly ganged up upon and beaten by three Butchers including Boar, Shank and Brisket. Butchers 2-0 Fishermen 6-0
I managed to bring Shark back who came back close to Jac and Salt, who was now carrying the ball, on the left wing. In the melee in the middle both Sakana and Kraken were beaten by Ox and Boar allowing my other teama members to use the pitch and keep out of trouble. Now with Shark back and in striking distance I loaded Shark with influence. Running to about 9 inches out he then used his Tidal Surge Character play for 3 INF to dodge rather than Advance into Tenderisers area of influence to stop him getting his free charge. Shark shoots with a clear line of sight, Shark scores before spending some influence to dodge back out of the arc. Butchers 6-4 Fishermen.
The ball was kicked off and Andy dropped it dead centre of the pitch with all of his Butchers between my team and the ball. Very quickly after kick-off the Butchers secured the ball with Brisket whilst Sakana and Kraken were off field.
Jac and Salt were doing good work on the wing supported by Shark and Siren. Brisket dodged away, ran, set-up the supershot and scored before Sakana could drop the Smoke bomb to hide the goal. Sakana and Kraken just returning to play behind thier goal. 10-4
The ball was kicked off and I was hoping for some luck. I tried to kick it into an area that I could hope to recover quickly. Whilst not the greatest kick distance wise it was close enough to Jac and Salt that one of them might be able to recover. Siren was very close to getting removed so attacked Shank to generate a dodge and left his melee area. Spending he last INF to run she moved around the back of Jac and Salt and come back into the centre of the field and attempt to get to the ball. Following kick-off the ball ended up with Jac who didn’t have the range to pass to Shark on the wing so punted the ball to open field for Shark to grab it he then spent his remaining INF attempting to Goad Ox into moving towards him rather than charging Shark. He whiffed his roll and failed. Before Shark could activate and fire off his legendary play Ox charged him and brutally chopped Shark up over 3 attacks doing just enough damage again resulting in a take down, Sharks second of the game. One less damage or a successful Goad roll and things may have appeared closer in terms of final score but alas it was not to be
Final score12-4 to the Butchers.
I think I have a handle on getting around Tenderiser. I wasn’t that impressed with Sakana and I certainly missed the goal threat of Angel but in terms of survivability Sakana was better than Angel and did a fair amount of damage to Ox. My difficult choice is which one from three to use…..Sakana, Angel or Greyscales. Based on his Unpredictable Movement, Where’d he Go? and Ball Gone! Character plays he may be a better option. I lose the Supershot of Angel but gain a slower, tougher, harder hitter with a bigger melee area to boot. So in terms of controlling the pitch and taking the ball Greyscales may be the best option for me.
I didn’t get to take any pictures as Andy T was playing photographer and commentator via his phone. I’ll ask him to share his pics with me.
**EDIT – here is a gallery of T’s pictures from last night. **
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