Round four from the store championship in Norwich bought to you from the excellent Athena Games team.
Showing posts with label Captain Oicunn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Captain Oicunn. Show all posts
Friday, 3 April 2015
Saturday, 21 March 2015
X-Wing Store Championship - Round 2
Round two of the store championship in Norwich brought to you by Athena Games.
Once again the video quality suffers from a lack of 1080p and poor focus.
The Athena games channel on the other hand has some of the best commentators available within the X-Wing community.
Once again the video quality suffers from a lack of 1080p and poor focus.
The Athena games channel on the other hand has some of the best commentators available within the X-Wing community.
Saturday, 14 March 2015
X-wing Thursday game
The Its Athing channel uploaded a couple of videos some time ago and they went dormant until uploading this video with Wave six releases.
The video quality is very good considering that there is no 1080p option on this video. The table chatter between the players is interesting although with a lot of pauses and colourful language can be difficult to ignore.
The video quality is very good considering that there is no 1080p option on this video. The table chatter between the players is interesting although with a lot of pauses and colourful language can be difficult to ignore.
Friday, 6 March 2015
X-Wing Batrep: 58 Dash Special vs. Devilmator/Whisper
The Daily Dial gives us the last video in their Devilmator/Whisper tournament practice series.
This time Lorenzo (the one that sounds like Dan Akroyd) up against the Super Dash/Corran build that is very common in the current meta.
This time Lorenzo (the one that sounds like Dan Akroyd) up against the Super Dash/Corran build that is very common in the current meta.
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
X-Wing Batrep: Howlrunner TIE Swarm vs. Devilmator/Whisper
Lorenzo/Dan Akroyd from the daily dial continues to document his training sessions for his store championship. I think they pretty much have their production format worked out now. They still timelapse through the combat phase but I'm willing to deal with that as they still give a pretty detailed report on everything that happened. And as a bonus they now have an after the credits blooper.
Saturday, 28 February 2015
X-Wing Battle Report 2015-02-19
Another new channel turns up this week, this time in the form of the dutch speaking Target Lock Channel.
They seem to have a very strong commentator that has no trouble keeping a conversation constant and also discusses the match enthusiastically which helps to hold attention.
However the down side is this death star surface mat. I know of a least a couple of other channels that started with this play mat only to discard it as soon as possible. The main problem is that the manufacturer wanted to give an impression of depth but the extra long shadows provide too much contrast and effectively act as camoflage making it hard to make things out even whilst the play area is well lit.
They seem to have a very strong commentator that has no trouble keeping a conversation constant and also discusses the match enthusiastically which helps to hold attention.
However the down side is this death star surface mat. I know of a least a couple of other channels that started with this play mat only to discard it as soon as possible. The main problem is that the manufacturer wanted to give an impression of depth but the extra long shadows provide too much contrast and effectively act as camoflage making it hard to make things out even whilst the play area is well lit.
Monday, 23 February 2015
Kavil,Renthal,Godalhi - Most Wanted Expansion | Thrawn's Field Test 2015...
For those who didn't already know Thrawn produces some of the most professional X-Wing videos on YouTube, and he does so with very little fancy special effects.
If this is the first you've heard of them then be sure to use the tag on this post to find more of their content or go to their channel page on YouTube.
You might feel put off by the German language but please stick through it and you'll see that if you're familiar with the visual language of X-Wing that you'll be able to follow along with no effort whatsoever.
Thrawn's Battle reports are all previews of announce but unreleased content for the game and in this video they feature the imminent scum and villainy and the upcoming TIE Advanced X1 title.
If this is the first you've heard of them then be sure to use the tag on this post to find more of their content or go to their channel page on YouTube.
You might feel put off by the German language but please stick through it and you'll see that if you're familiar with the visual language of X-Wing that you'll be able to follow along with no effort whatsoever.
Thrawn's Battle reports are all previews of announce but unreleased content for the game and in this video they feature the imminent scum and villainy and the upcoming TIE Advanced X1 title.
Friday, 20 February 2015
Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures Game League Matches Pink Decimator vs Rebel ...
Another league game from FCB Games.
Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures Game League-Cpt Oicunn vs Super Dash Rendar
The FCB Games Channel continues to stream their instore events and uploading them to YouTube. This time their coverage includes their local league play in atlanta.
Stick around afterwards for a post match interview with the players in a stockroom.
Stick around afterwards for a post match interview with the players in a stockroom.
X-Wing Batrep: Devilmator/Whisper vs. Fat Han
The Daily Dial continue to improve their video format and now inlcude the combat phase in the video, and a free form discussion after the match discussing strengths and weaknesses-
Saturday, 14 February 2015
X-Wing Video Batrep: Ion Spam 3B vs. Devilmator/Whisper
The Daily Dial continue to improve their battle report format. now they actually show the movement phase being played out providing commentary explaining the movement. The combat phase they continue to provide a post-report as they say that no-one wants to see dice rolls, I might argue that point but even so their videos are improving well.
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Skull Squadron X-Wing Saturday Nights Ep.1
A cool little home video style batrep of a casual game between friends is the debut video uploaded on Metox001's channel.
The camera could have been slightly higher and closer to the playfield to give a better view but conversation between the two players and the host/cameraman make it easy to follow the game.
Extra points for having Return of the Jedi playing on a TV in the background.
And the take away lesson from this game is dont bring a Lambda to a Decimator fight.
The camera could have been slightly higher and closer to the playfield to give a better view but conversation between the two players and the host/cameraman make it easy to follow the game.
Extra points for having Return of the Jedi playing on a TV in the background.
And the take away lesson from this game is dont bring a Lambda to a Decimator fight.
Star Wars X-Wing Tournament Series Q1 2015 Chad Woyce vs Sam Talley - 1 / 2
Chris Gilmore uploads videos from the FCB Comics and Games store in Atlanta twitch stream.
This weekend they wanted to show off a new play field consisting of a fibre optic lit starfield covered in protective glass. The star field is a neat idea but in the case of shooting video in this way gives too much reflection of the store roof.
Video quality is good considering that it is from a twitch archive and once again the commentator does a good job but he could probably do with a sidekick to help him along.
This is a particularly long game uploaded in two parts and featuring two Decimator + TIE Swarm.
This weekend they wanted to show off a new play field consisting of a fibre optic lit starfield covered in protective glass. The star field is a neat idea but in the case of shooting video in this way gives too much reflection of the store roof.
Video quality is good considering that it is from a twitch archive and once again the commentator does a good job but he could probably do with a sidekick to help him along.
This is a particularly long game uploaded in two parts and featuring two Decimator + TIE Swarm.
Friday, 6 February 2015
Star Wars X-Wing: Wave Five Demo Game (Oicunn vs Dash)
Northern Gaming finally gets around to a demonstration game of the wave five ships.
In this batrep the cammera is hung directly above the play field which usually results in it being a considerable distance from the play surface and as such make dice rolls difficult to make out especially when 1080p is not available. however the field is well lit meaning all tokens are clearly visible. The last comment regarding the video quality is that everything seems to in soft focus making small details even harder to make out.
The commentary on the other hand is well done and the hosts do a good job of keeping the conversation going as much as possible and also informing on the more important game events.
In this batrep the cammera is hung directly above the play field which usually results in it being a considerable distance from the play surface and as such make dice rolls difficult to make out especially when 1080p is not available. however the field is well lit meaning all tokens are clearly visible. The last comment regarding the video quality is that everything seems to in soft focus making small details even harder to make out.
The commentary on the other hand is well done and the hosts do a good job of keeping the conversation going as much as possible and also informing on the more important game events.
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
X Wing Tournament Report #4 Round 2 Whisper vs Chewbacca
Fly Casual brings coverage from yet another tournament. This time the following four videos are all covering Ian's matches throughout the day.
In a departure from their usual style no commentary track was recorded for this video, Instead they have used the table chatter to fill in for the commentary. I am quite impressed as usually the onboard mic on whatever device is recording the game has a pretty poor reach but in the case of this video both players can be clearly heard. Ian himself does as much as possible to fill quiet spots of the games and to aid the player in following the game action, However there are still times when he is not able to compensate for the lack of a commentary track.
The video is well lit and a clean playfield makes it easy to identify smaller tokens. Dice rolls however, as always, are hard to make out in any video that is less than 1080p (720p maximum in this case).
This particular tournament appears to have been heavily entrenched in the Wave 5 meta with pretty much all matches using no more than 4 ships.
In a departure from their usual style no commentary track was recorded for this video, Instead they have used the table chatter to fill in for the commentary. I am quite impressed as usually the onboard mic on whatever device is recording the game has a pretty poor reach but in the case of this video both players can be clearly heard. Ian himself does as much as possible to fill quiet spots of the games and to aid the player in following the game action, However there are still times when he is not able to compensate for the lack of a commentary track.
The video is well lit and a clean playfield makes it easy to identify smaller tokens. Dice rolls however, as always, are hard to make out in any video that is less than 1080p (720p maximum in this case).
This particular tournament appears to have been heavily entrenched in the Wave 5 meta with pretty much all matches using no more than 4 ships.
Sunday, 1 February 2015
BoLS Battle Report #200 | X-Wing Wave 5 NetLists Battle
I saw this video last week but didn't get round to writing a blog post for it.
Bell of Lost Souls channel published a video where they try out some netlists of the Wave 5 ships.
The video is well presented with the gameplay played back at a slightly elevated speed, but not too fast to make it difficult to follow alone. The channel host also does a good job at solo commentating/narrating the match.
Overall this is a very good video, it's just a shame that Bell of Lost Souls don't produce more X-Wing content as they are a mostly 40K channel.
Bell of Lost Souls channel published a video where they try out some netlists of the Wave 5 ships.
The video is well presented with the gameplay played back at a slightly elevated speed, but not too fast to make it difficult to follow alone. The channel host also does a good job at solo commentating/narrating the match.
Overall this is a very good video, it's just a shame that Bell of Lost Souls don't produce more X-Wing content as they are a mostly 40K channel.
NYC X-Wing Finals @ Twenty Sided Store 1/25/15
NYCXWing bring us another tournament final.
This match features some of the less common VT-49 combinations, specifically one with a mini swarm against one with a Firespray.
This match features some of the less common VT-49 combinations, specifically one with a mini swarm against one with a Firespray.
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
X-Wing Batrep: Devilmator vs. 3B
Thedailydial.com is a new blog focusing on X-Wing battle reports and here they publish their first YouTube video of a battle report.
The have chose to translate the battle report format of the blog into a video which is to say even though they have a mounted camera covering the playfield, none of the play is captured. Instead they choose to record after each movement phase/combat phase and discuss the action that has passed.
It's a shame as the video quality is good and well lit. their discussion is clear although I'm not sure if they have stood right behind the camera to make sure they are picked up well by the microphone.
The battle is interesting and they do a good job report the game events but it would be more preferable to see the game actually played out.
The have chose to translate the battle report format of the blog into a video which is to say even though they have a mounted camera covering the playfield, none of the play is captured. Instead they choose to record after each movement phase/combat phase and discuss the action that has passed.
It's a shame as the video quality is good and well lit. their discussion is clear although I'm not sure if they have stood right behind the camera to make sure they are picked up well by the microphone.
The battle is interesting and they do a good job report the game events but it would be more preferable to see the game actually played out.
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