FCB Comics and Games continue to record their local league play. of interest in this match is that they are applying the new decloak rules two weeks before they come into effect. So for those that are still confused regarding the Changes to the decloak mechanic, this video should be able to help you out somewhat.
Showing posts with label Echo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Echo. Show all posts
Friday, 3 April 2015
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.
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.
Sunday, 15 March 2015
X-Wing Miniatures batrep: Imagine Hobbies 2015 Store Championship
Steve records a diary of his store championship experience taking his 8 TIE Swarm through 4 rounds of Swiss.
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.
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.
Saturday, 14 March 2015
X-Wing Batrep: 300 Point Epic Battle
The Daily Dail having finished their tournament training decide there's nothing more relaxing than a nice short Epic scale game,
Saturday, 7 February 2015
X-wing Miniatures Let's Discuss Builds: The Swarm and the Elite #4
Michiel Van Rooijen continues his squadbuilder series this time focusing on the mini swarm formation combined with Echo.
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.
Saturday, 24 January 2015
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 2B Ian vs Mars
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.
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Game Cafe X-Wing Store Championship Round 1 1/10/2015
More videos from the Game cafe store championship.
Game Cafe X-Wing Store Championship Round 4 1/10/2015
More videos from the Game cafe store championship.
X-wing 1-10-15 Nick vs Jeff
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.
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Game Cafe X-Wing Store Championship Top 8 1/10/15
More videos from the Game cafe store championship.
Looks like they had a lot of people playing similar lists.
Looks like they had a lot of people playing similar lists.
Game Cafe X-Wing Store Championships Top 4 1/10/15
More videos from the game cafe store championship. This one being interesting as both sides feature both Echo and Whisper.
Game Cafe X-Wing Store Championship Round 6 1/15/2015
More videos from the game cafe store championship.
Game Cafe X-Wing Store Championship Finals 1/10/15
A pretty interesting game here as Chewbacca and Eaden Face off against Echo and Whisper, deffinatley worth a watch.
There is currently no audio as the publisher promises to later add commentary so might be worth holding off until the commentary is availble.
That said the video quality is pretty good considering that it is only in 720p. excellent clarity and a colorful play field make it easy to identify most tokens etc. Dice rolls as always are hard to make out so a jump to 1080p would be very useful.
There is currently no audio as the publisher promises to later add commentary so might be worth holding off until the commentary is availble.
That said the video quality is pretty good considering that it is only in 720p. excellent clarity and a colorful play field make it easy to identify most tokens etc. Dice rolls as always are hard to make out so a jump to 1080p would be very useful.
Score:7.5/10
Sunday, 11 January 2015
Let's Play Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game
A heavily condensed timelapse battle report. On screen overlays communicate the higlights of the game and animations help to demosntrate when damage is dealt to the ships.
Its also a welcome change right now to see ships other than wave 5 and phantoms getting some play.
The timelapse is an interesting choice but a slow more in depth battle report would be more interesting to watch.
Its also a welcome change right now to see ships other than wave 5 and phantoms getting some play.
The timelapse is an interesting choice but a slow more in depth battle report would be more interesting to watch.
Score: 7/10
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
Tuesday, 6 January 2015
X-Wing Finals @ The Compleat Strategist 1/3/15
A new channel NYCXWing bring their first battep to us featuring a game heavily entrenched in the Wave 5 meta with only four ships on the table. Sadly this is not the most interesting of games largely due to a series of errors by one of the players making it a very one sided affair.
The production quality is low and almost guerrilla in nature. Poor image quality leads to some fristration especially when reading dice throws and tokens placed on the table. The commentators state they are aware of this and promise better quality in the future. Other areas for improvement are probably the game mat which due to a lot of light reflection makes it dificult to discern playfid of items such as an asteroid and debris field tokens in the lower left quadrant of the play area being almost invisible. Including the lists information on screen has been handled very well considering but a bit more polish could have been applied to help presentation.
The commentators are interesting and active although they have a heavy propensity for pausing and saying umm way too much.
There are several rough edits that could be improved upon and it may be through fault of these edits that towards the end o the video the commentary track is roughly 20 seconds elated from the video.
Without a doubt NYCXWing's video is an excellent example of how easy it is to set up a camera and make an informative battle report. For a first try they show a lot of promise and subscribing to their channel should be a good idea.
Score: 7/10
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