Table-top miniature war-games will always beat any video game. You can see the whole battlefield, inspect individuals units, at any angle, without losing the big picture. Fond memories from the 1960's and 70's. Cheers.
I think you have to grow up with it to appreciate it. Where videogames shines is administering the rules , can give a proper representation of conditions and losses etc. I understand the its lovely to have everything layed out on a tble with all those beautiful miniatures. But for someone like me, all the niggling things like pushing around figures, immersion breaking stuff like playing cards, not seeing proper losses, biggering about rules, that just takes away any joy. A little bit of training, and you get complete overview of the battles fields on a display too.
Well Fraser, the seed is now in flower!! I was replaying both your army reviews only the other day, so good to see these armies on the tabletop!! Many Thanks to you and John for a great batrep. A few twists and turns, I thought the Romans were coming back there for a bit. It will be interesting to compare with Hail Ceasar. Thanks again👍👍
It was a good game and was nice getting the armies out once again. Have not yet played Hail ceaser but would imagine it will happen one day. Thanks for the comment 👍
Really enjoyed that while l was painting. Realistic situation with coffee brewing and the planes overhead, loved the 2 cameras as well..thanks for going to all that effort , thankyou
WOW, what a great report and that setup is GREAT! One question and I apologise if I missed it but where did you source that awesome Russell Crowe model?
@@vonketteringham have to say it is well done. Table looked great. I have tried 2 cameras before, found it tricky. I have seen Larry battle reports where they r@n 3, 2 on the table, one just looking at the dice tray.
John here, I edit the video in iMovie - the cutaway option let’s you add another video on top, then you can cut bits out of it to flick it back and forth. The hardest bit is lining up the sound as it is a bit of trial and error! Also it depends on you having an apple device
@@credo3612 hi John. I too use iMovies, record on my iPhone, edit on iPad Pro . With my earlier videos, I did run with 2 cameras, but was recording directly with laptop, but it was a real faff, toggling between 2 cameras was time intense.. I want to do as you, the effect was very good. Thx for the reply, very useful. 👍👍👍👍👍👍.
Using cards gives a totally screwed up method of luck....Once a card is pulled from a deck and not returned the chances of the next unit after that getting the result they need or dont want has now mathematically changed.
John was unlucky with the cards in this battle. I think giving the Dacian all falx made them lethal in close combat offsetting the Roman save. All to learn!
Mate this is artistic in it's simple beauty big table, big armies and both painted and played by polite, intelligent men without ego...
Thanks for the kind comment 👍
Love it! Beautiful armies. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much. 👍
Thanks for posting this report. Great looking armies on a big table. This is wargaming as it should be .
Thanks for the kind comment John 👍
A pleasure to watch.
And a pleasure to play! Thanks for the comment 👍
I would have paid to sit and watch this played live
We would gladly take your money!🙂🙂
Excellent report and very entertaining. 👍
Thanks TJ 👍
Table-top miniature war-games will always beat any video game. You can see the whole battlefield, inspect individuals units, at any angle, without losing the big picture. Fond memories from the 1960's and 70's. Cheers.
I think you have to grow up with it to appreciate it. Where videogames shines is administering the rules , can give a proper representation of conditions and losses etc. I understand the its lovely to have everything layed out on a tble with all those beautiful miniatures. But for someone like me, all the niggling things like pushing around figures, immersion breaking stuff like playing cards, not seeing proper losses, biggering about rules, that just takes away any joy. A little bit of training, and you get complete overview of the battles fields on a display too.
@@dagdriver4412 " biggering about rules" True. Half the battle was convincing your opponent that he's been nterrupting the rules wrong,
Thanks for the comment 👍
Well Fraser, the seed is now in flower!! I was replaying both your army reviews only the other day, so good to see these armies on the tabletop!! Many Thanks to you and John for a great batrep. A few twists and turns, I thought the Romans were coming back there for a bit. It will be interesting to compare with Hail Ceasar. Thanks again👍👍
It was a good game and was nice getting the armies out once again. Have not yet played Hail ceaser but would imagine it will happen one day. Thanks for the comment 👍
Really enjoyed that while l was painting. Realistic situation with coffee brewing and the planes overhead, loved the 2 cameras as well..thanks for going to all that effort , thankyou
It did get quite noisy!!
The game looks absolutely brilliant mate
Thanks Mark 👍
Great report mate. Figures look great too!!
Thanks Mate 👍
Good stuff VK.
Thanks Mate 👍
Great report! I very much enjoyed it.
Thank you John 👍
Interesting amendments with the light lance.
Seemed to work well 👍
Very nice Fraser
Thanks Mate 👍
Awesome buddy
Thanks Nath. Any hobby stuff done recently?
Yeahbeen playing 40k with my youngers son. And just started painting Epic waterloo french from warlord. Cheers buddy.
nice one VK
Thanks Mate 👍
WOW, what a great report and that setup is GREAT! One question and I apologise if I missed it but where did you source that awesome Russell Crowe model?
I think he is from Warlord games, complete with dog! Thanks for the comment 👍
John you had best keep a keen eye on Fraser's deck in future games 8P lol.
No comment!😄
Great looking game. The armies looked superb a pity the Romans could not pull out the victory.
Thanks for the comment Antony 👍
amazing battle report. how do you toggle between the camera views?
Absolutely no idea Graham, that's John's department!🙂
@@vonketteringham have to say it is well done. Table looked great. I have tried 2 cameras before, found it tricky. I have seen Larry battle reports where they r@n 3, 2 on the table, one just looking at the dice tray.
Meant to sat Lardy not Larry.
John here, I edit the video in iMovie - the cutaway option let’s you add another video on top, then you can cut bits out of it to flick it back and forth. The hardest bit is lining up the sound as it is a bit of trial and error! Also it depends on you having an apple device
@@credo3612 hi John. I too use iMovies, record on my iPhone, edit on iPad Pro . With my earlier videos, I did run with 2 cameras, but was recording directly with laptop, but it was a real faff, toggling between 2 cameras was time intense.. I want to do as you, the effect was very good. Thx for the reply, very useful. 👍👍👍👍👍👍.
John looked a bit unlucky at about 1:02:30. Can't see what number the attacking card was, but not sure his unit got hit
Let's keep that quiet Peter!!🙂
@@vonketteringham outrageous!
Using cards gives a totally screwed up method of luck....Once a card is pulled from a deck and not returned the chances of the next unit after that getting the result they need or dont want has now mathematically changed.
We use two decks per player👍
Looks like it was a really fun game. Poor Romans just didn’t get the cards they needed….ouch, but we’ve all been there (with dice in my case).
Thanks for the comments Keith, all OK with you?
Romans don't seem to be up to much, was it bad cards, but seem to break very easy?? Interesting never the less :-) 👍
John was unlucky with the cards in this battle. I think giving the Dacian all falx made them lethal in close combat offsetting the Roman save. All to learn!
@@vonketteringham ahh the dreaded falx!😆👍🏻
Around 1 hour you missed up on your card amigo.
Was a lot of that going on!
@@vonketteringham 😂😂😂 True.