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GUILDS game - new details!
🕑 Added 2021-03-09 17:23:19 +0000 UTCEdit: after some tests on implementing old factions, we decided to tweak a bit the wheel for a more engaging experience.
Hello Adventurers!
Or should we say... Guildmasters?
We are working on a epic update for GUILDS, our skirmish tabletop game.
As you might know we have this project running since few years, but thanks to the fantastic support received and the huge amount of models we have sculpted, things are evolving pretty quickly now!
When we started to dream about our ideal fast-paced and engaging miniature game we had some starting forces in mind, but here we are making so many new factions that things grow up a lot!
In order to make our game compatible with both the universe we are building and the minis we make here on Patreon, we decided to subdivide the various factions across 6 cardinal alignments called Forces (which are also work in progress being in Alpha stage).
The new release of Guild (Alpha 0.75) was going to be published this week, but due to a super epic mounted hero we are working on now, we have to push the update later, about the end of the month.
Please note that this will not change the way we make models on Patreon.
This place (Patreon) is about 3d printable models coming each month, and it will not be influenced by GUILDS rules or Forces.
The game will adapt to our minis, not the other way around. The game rules and model stats will also be free to our Patrons as we promised since the beginning!
How GUILDS play
The first step you'll do when playing GUILDS is to create your Guild... deck.
If you are going to play a quick skirmish Quest, you can choose a level of Glory which is equal for all players. For example, you might choose to play with 40 points, which will allow 2 Heroes (paying their cost) and all the regular units or spell you can get.
A normal model cost is 2 points, while stronger ones costs 3 and lesser minions only 1. Heroes might Cost from 5 up to 10, it really depend on its skills.
As things are quickly updated or changed, for the moment we have not a final Card graphic, and we rely on a simple printable PDF which contains all models stats cards.
These cards are now from the Force of Nature.
Each character we make is represented by a Card and a Miniature on the table; cards are an important feature of this game, and are real game components in GUILDS, not only references for the statistics. Your personal deck of Guild Cards is deployed on your side of the table while their correspondent minis
Do you like our super amazing gaming table on top?
The new Activation System makes the game much more engaging and fluent.
Every Round start with a quick Initiative Roll and is then subdivided in 3 major Phases: Event Phase; where your Guildmaster Shouts its Orders (and Quests events take place), an Activation Phase where players alternate activating one Card (and the correspondend hero or unit/s); and an End Phase where certain effects are applied and the wondering monsters are activated.
Unlike before, during the Activation Phase you activate a single Card by turning it to the side and act with its correspondent model, and your player do the same immediatly.
For example, Player 1 activate a Hero to move and cast a spell, Player 2 reply by charging and striking that hero with a formation of orcs, player 1 move in position some defenders to protect the hero and engage the orcs, player 2 activate his Guildmaster to shoot arrows to the defenders, and so on.
As every model on the table has been Activated, the End Phase start and so on.
Luckly our playtesters and grammar check Moderators @Torsten and @Aveal on Discord are making sure the Rules are easy to read and in perfect English (unlike this post!)
The Great Forces
In this case, the gameplay of this project is adapting to our Miniature Line product: an ever evolving line of characters and monsters, an expandable product that on Patreon will make new models every month.
This wheel is not about Kingdoms or Alliances, is more about ideologies and goals of the inhabitants of Artisan Guild multiverses. Every Force defines the principles of the various factions who belong to it, their vision of the world, their goals and common beliefs.
This doesn’t mean that all the factions and characters of the same Force know each other: some of them could belong to different cultures - or even worlds -, but at the very core their philosophy is similar, and it's up to you as Guildmaster to build bridges across them and find synergies. For example, most Tyranny alliances across factions are brittle, as their leaders would easly backstab eachother in their endless seek to ultimate power; but this doesn't prevent you as player to make any combination you have in mind using the models of the same force. As seen in the next paragraphs it's possible to combine multiple forces.
- Resistance (yellow): Fortitude, Perseverance, Honor
- Chaos (red): Instinct, Strength, Warmongery
- Corruption (violet): Pestilence, Death, Sacrifice
- Tyranny (black): Power, Oppression, Fear
- Order (white): Justice, Compassion, Light
- Nature (green): Wildlife, Growth, Survival
Unocking more Forces
To create a Guild you fist pick a Hero Card (and the correspondent miniature) you like from our line and turn him into the Guildmaster (GM).
By choosing a GM you also lock your selection of units to its Force.
For example, Alvar Giantslayer is e dwarven Hero of the Resistance, so your next units will be Resistence units (which will also include other folks, such Amazons, Scourgelanders and so on).
If you play a game of at least 40 points, you can select a second Hero; you can pick a Hero of the same Force, or one of an Adiacent Force.
In the Forces Wheel on top, you can see that Creation and Chaos are adjacent to Resistance.
By using the same example as before, if your first hero was Alvar (Resistance), you might recruit a Hero from Nature (such a Deepwood Alfar or a Sylvan Knight), a Chaos one (such Orc Barbarians, some Amazons, and Sparksoot Goblins for example), or even another Resistance one.
Depending on which Hero you will pick, you will have 2 Forces in your Guild, and you may recruit models from both.
When you are confident enough to play a game of 60 points, you'll have to choose a total of 3 Heroes, one of them being your Guildmaster. In this case, the third Hero could be of the same Forces you already have in your Guild, or of a Force adjacent to Heroes you already possess in your deck.
For example, you can start with a GM of the Order, then select a second Hero from Creation, and a Third one from Resistance, having a Guild composed by 3 Forces.
Or more simply, you can get a Heroine from the Order and expand to its adjacent Tyranny and Nature.
In any case, you will never have models of the opposite Alignment in the same Guild (such Order and Chaos, or Nature and Corruption.
If you want to be creative and pick some models from the Order and mix them with Tyranny, you can still do that (unlike in the previous version where wheel was broken). In that case a Templar of the Order who join with Tyranny is not a necessarly good: he put order and law above else and is allying, for example, with a Tyranny Heroine.
The Requiem Brotherhood
We can't wait to finish this Alpha Update, but at the moment we are really overwhelmed by sculpts. The next month was going to be simple after the crazyness of the Frost Jotunn Epic Boss.... but then we sketched a Flying Armored Holy Lion with a Paladin on top,... and well we screwed up the month ahah XD
Here a preview of 2 modulars of the next month. Modular figures will come also with helmet, there will be as always a variety of weapons and of course there will be some men in the set too. The next Release, coming in April, it's called the Requiem Brotherhood.
About Guilds, it's really hard that we will be able to provide stats and abilities for the new factions every month, but we will probably end up providing them 1-2 months later to make sure they are unique and playtested.
We can't wait to share the next update with you! Thanks a lot for your patience and comprension. Have a great week :)
Cheers!
Comments
Andy Farrell
Very Cool! The preview models are neat! this winged lion you speak of.... lets see a sneak peak :-)
Artisan Guild
Thanks, it will be Nature (creation was the old name)
Marco La Gamba
In the post, when you talk about the Forces Wheel, actually you refer at Nature as Creation but the image report Nature
Matthew Gladin
Reminds me of the infinity stones!
Artisan Guild
Working on that. Scrolls will be published only when a faction works really great :)
Artisan Guild
All of then will get updated supports :) abyss demons will come soon!
Artisan Guild
Thats exactly what Tyranny is in our game :)
Zac Erickson
Honestly, I think you should let Order and Tyranny be connected sometimes. I'm infinitely interested in "the tyranny of good." I've been playing in a D&D campaign for 2+ years where the Divine Order is suspected to be infiltrated by evil forces, and they're using the face of holiness as a front to gain more and more power. Lots to explore around the dark side of religion. I say let it all connect, but that just my opinion. :P
Agent Dex
Possibly getting dragonguard and eye cult gryphkin scrolls in the next update?
Simon Boses
Fantastic!
Glitterwolf
The Requiem Brotherhood sounds great!
Tomás López López
The idea of the game seems so fun!! I was so excited with pit fighters and with bloodfields and I'm also with this. Also the next month is looking pretty awesome and It'll look great with the demons, also with all of this legacy updates, will Delani get updated or the supports perfectly work??
War Mammoth
Flying Armored Holy Lion with a Paladin on top = I am in Heaven!
evanbanjo
I really like what I’m seeing with this update. I can’t wait to get some games in soon!
Frank Quinn
Preview minis look great guys! Cant wait to see the holy lion!!
Rob Silvester
I did an extended write up about that break in the wheel on the Discord. The short version is it could lead to some balance problems with the Order and Tyranny factions, and I think it closes the door on a lot of interesting narrative possibilities. The mythology, as AG just laid out, just sort of underscores that, that the two are closer than they'd like to believe.
arlan miller
Thanks for the update and all the work you keep putting into this project. We are really looking forward to some play test time coming soon and being able to add the new release when their stats become available even if it might be a short time later.
Greg Parsons
Looks A LOT like Relic Knights (Not a BAD thing IMHO)...
Martin Diaz
The game seems to be getting better and better, love the alignments system!
Artisan Guild
It was, until Tialevor the Tyrant God slain Ghaomir, his twin, God of Order. The line between their two vision on how to rule on mortals was really similiar
Craig Tough
Well this has got my attention as just been collecting the minis for a few months because I loved the sculpts but now there’s going to be their own game looks like I will be spending a bit on mmf to get the minis I have missed out on. Love the circle and being able to have more than one faction in my force as opens up a huge amount of potential forces
Artisan Guild
Max will will be 6 :) with fails on 1.
The Crimson Chapperling
I got sad when I saw they Circle is broken between Order and Tyranny, I like the idea that order is 1 wrong step away from oppression. Awesome additions though can't wait to try it out.
Tyler Hurst
I think I’ll turn guilds into a mini-game, like chess, to be played in my d&d world. Kind of like that board game in game of thrones.
Joseph Hubbard
OOOOOOO K. I misunderstood "epic update" thinking that this was like an established game with rules and such already out, and were getting new rules. But this is instead a new rules system being introduced to models, and we are "grounds flooring" Which personally I am more ok with as I'm not missing anything it seems.
Lind
Now you pay points for every Hero, guildmaster isn't free (but maybe still gets some stat buff). One thing; on spells defence vs Will, the old +3 Will to guildmaster made him/her immune to them (Will 8/9 is impossibile to get with a D6). So the test should be against basic Will (the value on the scroll) or 6 is always success if Will is 7+. For example, with 3 units vanquished by Sylvan Knight formation, they have Will 7.
Artisan Guild
As we make abilities and stats for our sets they will get an alignment :)
Lee Perry
Holy shit those paladins look SOOOO good.
Zac Erickson
I love the alignment system. I’m now trying to pair all the existing sets into groups in my head. 😜 Looking forward to building out my army
Arsenio Gárate Jauffred
Palaaadiiins yaaaaaaaassss (finally) 😍
Happy
I love this faction alignments system idea.
LP Wilson
Can't wait for next month's set and for this Guild's game! This makes my transition to Artisan Guild from Titan Forge complete haha (I had liked the idea of their game system but now that you have one they've got nothing on you!) And your sculpts are AMAZING *drool* -theLP100
Joseph Hubbard
So I'm new to all of this... Has it been established which models you have made (say ones I can buy on MMF) will be in each faction? I've obviously been looking at buying several sets, but with more details I think I can convince my friends to pick up some sets as well.
Josh
Flying armoured holy lion with paladin on top... I really really need one of those... or two :)
Carlos Fuster de Aguilar
WOW!!! I need it now!!!
Niels Junius
Amazing!! So cool!
D3gsy
This sounds amazing! Can't wait to give it a try!
Dgonatan Gorden
Wooooooooy! Cool!)
