X Wing Battle Report: Andy vs Nate

Santa Barbara Wargaming debuts their first X-Wing battle report of a friendly game with some of their local players who also provide commentary.
The camera has been hung directly above the playfield. Now this may seem like a good choice but I've found it results in the game detail being much flatter. I personally prefer when the camera is mounted alongside the play surface facing down at an angle of about 30 degrees. I find that from that angle the ships seem much closer and the 3D aspect of the models can be appreciated better. Also I find that the obstacle tokens also pop a little better of the table surface. There are also times when the TIE Phantom is quite hard to make out the actual model.
Another downside is that the top down view restricts the width of the play field to the same height as the screen. However TV screens are considerably wider than they are tall, meaning that there is a lot of unused space to the sides of the playfield. In the case of this video so that your not watching the two players legs move around they have edited out the excess space to the edges of the screen.
The commentary recorded by the two players is actually pretty good for a first try and they do an excellent job of keeping a pretty steady conversation for the whole duration of the game.

X-Wing 100pts- FNP Wargamers Ep.2

FNP Wargamers Publish a video of a battle report at a freindly local game store.
This video is shot on a handheld camera which helps to keep dice rolls a tokens clear and visible to the viewer because the camera is much closer to the action. The down side to this is the activation phase is not covered in the video (mostly because the camera man needs both hands free to move ships). Because of this in this video they choose to leave all the movement templates on the table which ends up with the playfield being considerably cluttered during the combat phase.

X-Wing - FFG Worlds 2014 - Top 4.2

Here's Team Covenant's earlier video from this week featuring the World Championship semi-final match between Morgan Reid and Keith Wilson.
extra points for giving us such a good view of Keith's Lunch for the first twenty minutes.

X-Wing Store Championship Round 1 Vader Swarm vs Triple Large

The Wookiees on X-Wing from Northern Gaming bring us the first in a series of videos of a local store championship.

Video quality suffers from a heavily damaged play surface and glaring overhead lights.

However the commentary helps capture viewer interest.

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.

Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures Game XXXZ State Of The Union vs Decimator a...

Another match from the FCB Comincs and Games store Twitch stream.

X Wing

Don't expect much of this video. Particularly amateur in its approach and cuts off part way through turn two.

BATTLE REPORT #8 - " Brath is Coming" vs " 2 Heroes"

Italian language channel X-Wing Academy Publishes another batrep. They are slowly developing their content and now have a game mat instead of just a black surface.
An interesting combination of lists in this match but more that half the game is a traffic jam in the center of the board.

Tournament Report #1 - Round 2A Chris vs Marcus

A series of videos all uploaded at the same time. See the first in the series to see my thoughts.

Tournament Report #1 - Round 1B Mars vs Chris

A series of videos all uploaded at the same time. See the first in the series to see my thoughts.

BATTLE REPORT #7 - "Kenkirk & Ysanne" vs " New Tres Amigos"

Another batrep from the Italian X-Wing Academy. This time it seems the video quality has dropped a little due to a different filming location than normal. Even so most of the action is easy to follow even if the dutch angle is a little annoying.

The game is well paced and interesting, even for those who don't know Italian.

X-Wing Video 4

Fortuitos gaming has uploaded a handful of videos in the past month and seems to be shaping up to be a channel that will have more content coming soon. 

The video quality is excellent with excellent focuses and all game elements identifiable. But I would prefer to see the camera a little higher and a lower angle so as to better cover the far edge of the play field which can seem a bit distant. 

The audio track is very very low so the volume will have to be turned up high. If you do choose to listen to the table talk there's not much chatter between the players, although to their credit they do a great job of announcing their actions so that it is very easy to follow along. 

A good video and I look forward to seeing more.

X-wing Thursday - Mike vs John

Warning video contains frequent use of explicit language.
This video opens up with a disclaimer noting that it is a test video and that explicit language is used.
Image quality is grainy as if the video has been upscaled, although a well lit play area makes it easy to identify ships. Judging from the watermark in the corner the video seems to have been shot edited and uploaded from a mobile device. Although being an imperial vs imperial game and with no other way to tell the ships apart there are times were if you look away for a moment you'd be hard pressed to tell which interceptor is which. Some markers or something would be a good idea to help distinguish each team.
Due to the video quality dice rolls are hard to make out, although the players call out the majority of the results, having the players roll dice on the table half closest to the camera can make a huge improvement to this.
In the case of this vid there is no commentary just the conversation between the two players, as such there are lengthy periods of silence. Add to this the microphone doesn't have much range and so at normal conversation levels the voices are too low, so you turn the volume up, and then when something happens and the players erupt into shouting, which forces you to turn the volume down again. You will probably find yourself fluttering the volume up and down for the entire video.
Lastly the lists are never discussed in the video or included in the description.
Being as how it is a test video it looks like they are hoping to do a lot better in the future.

Score: 6/10