X-Wing - Covenant Store Championship 2015 - Finals

The final match from Team Covenant's store championship.

X-Wing - Tulsa Store Championship 2015 - Top 4.1

Team Covenant's second semi final video from their store championship.

X-Wing - Tulsa Store Championship 2015 - Top 4.2

Team Covenant are making a concerted effort to release more X-Wing video content and improving their production quality. In the case of this recent batch of videos for example Steven is much less apathetic and does a much better job of keeping his end of the commentary up. They have also made those tiny little numbers, that they used to indicate which ship is which, a little bit bigger making them a lot easier to see. But it would seem that it's two steps forward one step back with Team Covenant as the numbers on the ship don't help you identify which ship is which. In the case of this match both players are playing the same list (mirror match) once the ships have mad a few turns it becomes hard to tell which falcon was from which team.Maybe if they took the oportunity to include the numbers on the ship lists at the edges of the screen. Also they have chosen to use a top down viewpoint which makes things more difficult to see.

Either way it is nice to see Team Covenant try to perfect their video presentations.

Upcoming Releases: Star Wars Armada(?) and Singles Galore!

Team Covenant's weekly product release roundup, with regards to X-Wing they discuss having single copies of upgrade cards from Wave six available through their store and also discuss the imminent arrival of Armada

Upcoming Releases: Wave 6, X-Wing Singles, Zogwort's Curse

Team Covenant publish a brief Vlog announcing the new releases available in their store/webstore this week

Squad Tokens - An In-Depth Look

The full presentation video of the new line of acrylic tokens from Team Covenant.

Squad Tokens: Suit Up and Strap In

A brief promotional spot for team covenant's newly released line of tokens.

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 - FFG Worlds 2014 - Finals

Team Covenant bring their trademark high quality video production standard to the 2014 world championship final match.

If you have already seen the Fantasy Flight Games video of the final then you may feel that this presents a better view of the table with better video quality and contrast level.

In this video even the commentary is well maintained despite Stephen's penchant for trolling the viewer with his disaffected/uninterested hipster routine which he seems to have kept to a minimum on this game.

The only complaint I can level against team covenant on this one is the tiny little number overlays they use to identify the ships. Maybe it's my TV but they just don't contrast enough against the dark background colors to be able to make them out well, dice results are easier to see than these numbers.

Upcoming Releases: Squad Tokens, Wave 6, The Valemen

Team covenant finally see their way to producing an acrylic token line to complement their existing maneuver templates. Here is a short announcement trailer.

X-Wing - FFG Worlds 2014 - Top 4 - Game 1

This is a battle report of two time world champion Paul Heaver's 2014 semifinal.

This is an interesting game to watch as it includes a head to head between toe almost Identical fat Han lists. The only difference being that Paul took R2-D2 as a crew member whilst his opponent took gunner. As such this game is a perfect demonstration of the difference R2-D2 can make in the fat Han mirror match and is definately worth a watch. 

Team covenant bring their excellent standard of quality to the production of this video with clear high video quality and informative graphic overlays to keep you informed of what's happening at any point in the game. They include an action bar for each ship highlighting the action taken for each turn in green. In the case of this video they have chosen to remove all other actions once an action is chosen, in this case I prefered how they did it in their previous videos of the gen-con finals where the action bar stayed integral throughout the video. I suppose that option of removing the superfluous actions was to demonstrate when a ship had finished it's actions ( most notable when push the limit is involved). I would rather suggest that the actions not taken are greyed out whilst actions taken remain highlighted in green. It would also be nice to include the actions added to the action bar by upgrade cards (millenium falcon title adds evade I on to the action bar).

Lastly team covenant also choose to number the ships in the play area to help with identification. These numbers are way too small even in 1080p to be clearly made out. I would suggest increasing their size by about 50%. 

The comentary is handled by team covenants staple x-wing duo which handle the commentary very well. However as this is a fat Han mirror match the late game becomes drawn out with little action which leaves the commentators with not very much to say and there are frequent pauses with dead air. This should be avoided as much as possible and can easily be filled with idle commentary maybe discussing other aspects of the game. 

All in all the videos from team covenant are an example to follow and they have commented in past that they are working hard to produce more x-wing content on a quicker time scale.

Score: 9/10