Carnevale: The Guild

Continuing from last week in Venice this week we have The Guild. This human faction makes up the other half of the starter box and comprises various criminal types along with the working men and women of the city. If the Rashaar are happiest in the water then The Guild are happiest on the streets or roof-tops of Venice.

The leader included in the starter is the Capodecina who is a masked assassin whose high dexterity and Acrobatic ability means he should be perfectly at home flitting across the roofs of Venice. The rules give a large armour penetration bonus if you manage to leap / fall down onto an opponent so death from above would seem to be his strongest move.

Compared to the Rashaar The Guild lacks any large based monsters but they make up for that with the Fishermen as the hero choice. The Hunter ability gives an attack bonus when fighting models on larger bases so these would be excellent monster hunters. The game doesn't draw a distinction between melee and ranged weapons other than the actual range of the weapon, as long as you are in range you can attack.

Venice is well known for it's canals and I would presume the Guild of Gondoliers would have been pretty powerful in the 1700's and they are represented in game. He was a nice looking weapon but more interestingly the ability to also purchase and then row a gondola, one of which is in the starter. I did break his oar so needed to do some repair work on it which is why it has the sleeve above his hand.

Finally we have the Citizen, these represent shopkeepers and street vendors and other people who would need the 'protection' offered by The Guild. As you'd expect they aren't anything special in the stats department but they do benefit from grouping up and being next to others. I was lucky enough to get an extra Citizen in the box so have two of the men with knobbed clubs.

The Gondola comes in three large sections with a few detail bits to add on all of which went together without much trouble. As the rest of the models in the box are all single piece castings this was pretty much the only gluing I needed to do.

And this is all the resin models that came in the box ready to take the field. The starter came with an introductory mini-campaign so Mr T and myself are going to have a look at that over the next couple of weeks.