Guild Ball on Vassal Engine

I recently played a game of Guild Ball on the Vassal Engine.  Being completely new to the wargaming experience and wanting to play more GB, outside of my gaming club and when people have time, was to playing remotely online. 

The Vassal Engine is a system which allow users to create specific rules to play certain games i.e Warmachine, Malifaux.  It's a basic dice rolling system and depending what gaming module you have installed it will have the contents of models, their stats, templates and in-game modifiers.  I assume these modules take a great deal of time from dedicated fans to make it to work.

So being grateful something like this exist to play more games.  I got myself involved and downloaded the GB module.  There are groups available for people to arrange games most of these groups are either from forums or Facebook page (which I have listed below).   I was lucky enough to have a GB Pundit (Dave) giving me a guided tour of the system but also some ingame guidance of GB, which I really need at the moment.   

The user interface is really easy to follow, though it's worth memorising the short-keys for ease of use.  The layout is quite straight forward, you select your team via the roster which includes all teams and players, and also Unions players are included in their respective secondary teams.

You play the game as you normally do with the Initiative, Maintenance, Active and End Phase.  The dice rolls are triggered by the column next to the pitch depending how many dice you have, you click on the respective dice you have available. All measurements are made easy with the tools available, players range and radius can be selected using the number keys, so no crappy tape measurers.   

This app is really worth getting if you cannot find a local game and want to play with other people globally.  Ideally it's worth having Skype as well so you can communicate with the other player and throw couple of insults when things aren't going your way.  I really enjoyed this app, though it can't beat playing with the real thing, you can use this to get some match practice.

You can find the Vassal FB group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/901202099948458/.
Follow Dave on https://minimusingofabear.wordpress.com/
He's also got a podcast which is pretty good! https://flockandawepodcast.wordpress.com/