Steve records a diary of his store championship experience taking his 8 TIE Swarm through 4 rounds of Swiss.
Showing posts with label Turr Phennir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turr Phennir. Show all posts
Sunday, 15 March 2015
Sunday, 22 February 2015
POST COMMENTARY #2 - Road To Store Championship Pescara - Finale
The Italian X-wing Academy continue to try to refine their presentation technique, now including shield and hull counters on the lateral edges of the screen.
This time the video quality has improved slightly but the distance from the camera to the playfield is too much to be able to tell which ship is which on the table. The commentary once again seems well presented.
This time the video quality has improved slightly but the distance from the camera to the playfield is too much to be able to tell which ship is which on the table. The commentary once again seems well presented.
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 1A Ian 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 3 Mars vs Marcus
Fly Casual uploaded a bunch of videos a few days ago but I wasn't able to find them by searching X-Wing. It was only because this one showed up in my feed that I new to look for more of them.
The idea of time lapsing through planning and activation phases is a good idea and is executed at a comfortable speed to be able to see what's happening.
The play field occupies a small portion of the screen which in turn makes dice rolls and tokens harder to make out. It's always importantant to get the play field to at least fill the screen vertically. As it is in these videos we get an excellent view of a subway cup and a coke bottle whilst dice rolls we cant make out at all.
The comentators at fly casual are on form as usual and do a great job.
The idea of time lapsing through planning and activation phases is a good idea and is executed at a comfortable speed to be able to see what's happening.
The play field occupies a small portion of the screen which in turn makes dice rolls and tokens harder to make out. It's always importantant to get the play field to at least fill the screen vertically. As it is in these videos we get an excellent view of a subway cup and a coke bottle whilst dice rolls we cant make out at all.
The comentators at fly casual are on form as usual and do a great job.
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
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