Northern Gaming network's Wookies on X-Wing battle reports from their store championship reach round three.
Showing posts with label Darth Vader. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darth Vader. Show all posts
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Friday, 13 March 2015
X-Wing Madness Round 10: Tie Advanced!
We continue with Crabbok as he plays against himself with the elite TIE Advanced
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
ORS: Episode XX - X-Wing Battle Report - Tabletop game #1
After six months of publishing battle reports from vassal log files the Outer Rim Smugglers finally take the plunge into physical battle reports.
Here we see them adapt their onscreen interface to be used with a physical game using a fully top down camera angle and the squad indicators on the left and right margins.
They also substituted the lack of the dice roll window from vassal with their own dice roll animation and laser animations to help indicate attacks for the viewer.
as far as the video is concerned the only problem is the playfield used had some kind of a nebula or blackhole painted in the middle which creates a lot of noise and makes it harder to make out details in the play area.
The other downside is that the hosts themselves have become used to much shorter videos made from vassal logs where the pauses while players make a decision have been eliminated. In this case there are several moments that they are waiting for the game to progress and find them selves with little to say. hopefully with more videos of this kind under their belt they will start to find ways to fill the gaps and pauses to help keep viewer interest.
Here we see them adapt their onscreen interface to be used with a physical game using a fully top down camera angle and the squad indicators on the left and right margins.
They also substituted the lack of the dice roll window from vassal with their own dice roll animation and laser animations to help indicate attacks for the viewer.
as far as the video is concerned the only problem is the playfield used had some kind of a nebula or blackhole painted in the middle which creates a lot of noise and makes it harder to make out details in the play area.
The other downside is that the hosts themselves have become used to much shorter videos made from vassal logs where the pauses while players make a decision have been eliminated. In this case there are several moments that they are waiting for the game to progress and find them selves with little to say. hopefully with more videos of this kind under their belt they will start to find ways to fill the gaps and pauses to help keep viewer interest.
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
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.
Video quality suffers from a heavily damaged play surface and glaring overhead lights.
However the commentary helps capture viewer interest.
Sunday, 1 February 2015
X Wing
Don't expect much of this video. Particularly amateur in its approach and cuts off part way through turn two.
Thursday, 22 January 2015
Episode XIV - X-Wing Battle Report - TCAces Round 2 - Sozin vs Starsli...
Another Vassal report from the Outer rim Smugglers as they bring us a round 2 match from the Team covenant aces event currently taking place.
This game is interesting because it uses a great deal of unreleased content. The autothrusters upgrade makes an appearance on Soontir Fel and no less than 5 TIE Advanced on the playfield featuring both the advanced targeting computer and the accuracy corrector unreleased upgrade cards.
Take a look and see if the newly buffed TIE Advanced get a fair shake of it in this match up.
This game is interesting because it uses a great deal of unreleased content. The autothrusters upgrade makes an appearance on Soontir Fel and no less than 5 TIE Advanced on the playfield featuring both the advanced targeting computer and the accuracy corrector unreleased upgrade cards.
Take a look and see if the newly buffed TIE Advanced get a fair shake of it in this match up.
Thursday, 15 January 2015
X-Wing GNK Round 2 - 3x Phantom vs Phantom/Interceptor/Vader
In this channel focus series I will be publishing all the videos found on a specific channel to help complete the blog as a directory for all YouTube content. video analysis will not be necessary as the most recent video by the publisher has already been analysed.
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
X-Wing Video 2
In this channel focus series I will be publishing all the videos found on a specific channel to help complete the blog as a directory for all YouTube content. video analysis will not be necessary as the most recent video by the publisher has already been analysed.
Sunday, 11 January 2015
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.
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
Thursday, 8 January 2015
X-Wing Miniatures - Game Night Round 3 Vader/Whisper/Jax vs. Fel/DoomShu...
A cool Batrep from a game store game night where two imperial lists go head to head. Image quality is very good on this video with an interesting low angle view of the play surface and high definition video making it very easy to follow along with the game. back ground audio is at a level where it is unobtrusive to the commentators whilst still giving enough information from the players, at one point a crit is clearly read out by one of the players ( a rare occurence in x-wing vids where you are normally left guessing which crit is dealt). Dice rolls are also easily discernable. The commentators are interesting if a bit slow at times, a better pace would help hold the viewers attention better.
The only complaint I'd have regarding the camera angle is that the models on the far edge of the table are not visible, their bases are, but if there were several small base ships battling along that edge it would be hard to tell which is which.
Overall a good quality video from a channel that is worth a subscription to see what more they can come up with.
The only complaint I'd have regarding the camera angle is that the models on the far edge of the table are not visible, their bases are, but if there were several small base ships battling along that edge it would be hard to tell which is which.
Overall a good quality video from a channel that is worth a subscription to see what more they can come up with.
Score: 8/10
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