Toms Youtube Battle Reports

[tmarichards]

First videos will be coming up shortly.

Feedback is more than welcome, and I'm more than happy to explain anything I do which I might not cover very well in a report, so feel free to drop me a PM or post in here with any questions.

[tmarichards]

2013 EDIT:

I've had a couple of people say the sheer volume of these reports was putting them off, and I'm also a little bit concerned that people might watch the first couple of reports and get put off by them because, to be honest, it took me a little while to hit my stride with them. For new watchers, I'd recommend starting with my more recent reports and then if you enjoy them, you have a big backlog to catch up on. I'd suggest the Tempest 8 reports as a good starting point, as they're a series of reports where I played relatively well and, more importantly, had a lot of fun playing the games which really carries over into them.

Either way, have a nice day.

[Don Zeko]

Exciting! Haven't had time to watch them all yet and I hate to nitpick, but you really need to do something about the sound quality of the narration. Are you recording in a noisy room?

[Don Zeko]

Ouch. Tough loss. That witch elf flee roll was pretty tragic. But with 4 more rounds, I'm sure that they'll have a chance to earn their keep.

[tmarichards]

At the moment I'm just recording off of my laptop, hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on a decent microphone before too long.

[tarrym]

Just watched the first video now. Agree that the sound quality needs to be worked on.

Also can I suggest you take photo's of the individual units to show when you're running through your army list? Or even talking about your army list during your deployment explanation. The first 3 mins is just looking at the blue slide with the headline text - and combined with the sound quality it's pretty hard to keep track of everything you've said. Just my two pennies

[tmarichards]

Thanks for the feedback

What I'll do next time is take a photo of my army beforehand.

[Malorian]

What I'll do next time is take a photo of my army beforehand.

I don't know if that's needed. That's what bunkertube used to do and really all it does is force you to repeat yourself when you are explaining deployment.

I find it best to just explain your list and deployment at the same time on the deployment picture.

[tmarichards]

Hmm... maybe if I just show my army in a picture before the first game, and not in the rest?

Updated with game 3.

[TsukeFox]

Lot of tuff luck- good to see all the painted armies.

[Zoolander]

Not a bad report. I would suggest that you spend less time on the introduction. 3 minutes into it I got bored and sped ahead, and you were still talking with no game playing. Get to the game! I'll check the others to see if they are the same way. And as other mentioned, the sound was pretty bad. These aren't easy to do, so I give you props for doing it! Nice work.

Hard loss for the elves. Sorry to see them go down that way! Better luck next time.

[tmarichards]

The long intro is just in the first report, because I go over my list. In the future, I'll put a picture up of my army so you can see what I'm talking about. My next tournament is in early May, so hopefully I'll have a decent microphone by then.

Thanks for the feedback

Also, now updated to have all 6 games.

[Malorian]

I jumped to the 6th video just to see if you got things worked out and it's obvious that you did.

The sound isn't perfect but it's leaps and bounds better than the first one.


Now to go back and check out the rest

[tmarichards]

Thanks Mal, I actually had to re-record the 6th game because I had my fan on in the background the first time...

"So, here on my left flank CCRRRRRRRRRRRRR over there, and now looking at the cen- CCCCRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"

Very annoying...

I basically just changed rooms, moved the cat, moved all my papers etc.

[GreenSpeed]

Great reports, thanks for posting

[Zoolander]

I jumped to the 6th video just to see if you got things worked out and it's obvious that you did.

The sound isn't perfect but it's leaps and bounds better than the first one.


Now to go back and check out the rest

I agree. The other reports are better. Nice job.

Cheers.

[giant stegadon]

I just watched the 2nd game b/c of time- sound doesnt seem that bad. For the beginning and end you could either have a slide show of up close pics of your army or informative text with either army info at the start & "good" & "bad" or something at the end.

Just some criticism- keep making video batreps!

[tmarichards]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I think in the future I'll put a close up pic of my army at the start while I go over what's in my list and spells etc, and I'll try to note down the VP scores so I can put them on a slide at the end.

Hopefully I'll be getting some more games in this week under the ETC comp, so all things going well I should have another report or 2 up by next week.

[Artinam]

Subscribed, when you fix your sound problems these are very nice reports.

[tmarichards]

First post has been updated with 3 games under the ETC comp for Call to War, which is this weekend.