Battle reports: planning beforhand.

So, I am hoping to do my battle report soon and I thought I'd share my tips on planning.

1. Less is more with notes, I will be writing the BR as soon as I get back so I don't need to many notes. Just the really important bits need to be written down.
2. Think of a pic criteria for each turn, i will have a pic of the entire battlefield, a pic of the interesting events and any other pic that I want to take but keep that in mind and take notes from where you are taking pics of.
3. make sure your opponent is up for a BR as they add time to the game.
4. Get your opponent to help you out by writing his part of the tale down while you do.

So, just thought I'd share that with you. i have a question though. If you don't use picasa or another service like that how do you upload pic. I use blogger in draft and it won't let me upload any pictures at the moment!

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Battle reports: Part 2, pictures, thematic, informative and overviews.

So, I thought I'd go through the 3 types of pictures that I use when I take pictures for battle reports

1. Thematic: Very nice to use, especialy as the first pic. These should show thematic moments like you see in white dwarf. Sant Cruz Warhammer always puts up an edited pic at the start of posts to make them stand out. This leads me onto my next point. You can fuge these pictures. I've seen blood spatters, lightning effects, anything from adding fog to having body parts flying. These pictures are for pure fun.
2. Informative pictures: these are the most common and show the points of action, these are usualy accompanied by the main body of text as these are telling the story.
3. Overviews: these are the other common type and show large parts of all of the battle. I find one or two is good but they are not big enough pictures to show detail.

So, that's about it for now. Oh, yea, James, I need to play you again, what do you think to me actualy doing a battle report on our next game, but play 2250 as it get us more toys. Though I'd give James another shout out as well His blog is: Paint Brush And Clippers James Gaming. thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Polls: Battle reports poll closed.

So, the poll on battle reports is over and it seems that loads of people like them, here are the results:

YES, I love them. 16 (61%)

Ok, but can get to long, only short ones 8 (30%)
Don't really read them. takes to long. 2 (7%)
Rubbish, waste of space 0 (0%)

It looks like I will be preparing some battle reports in the near future.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Fantasy: 2000 pts WoC vs Empire (I got smashed) battle overview.

Hi, today I played a game at the GW and well, I got smashed.

I made a mistake with my screening fact cav and he got an ace shot with a warmachine which dropped some knights then the turn after he took my hero on jugger off. I also made a mistake because I forgot my jugger guy waas a hero and not a lord so used him wrong. The other problem was that in my army I had 1 unit ofknights and 1 unit of warriors then the rest was just cav making a really small list.

So, I bought 5 more knights so I canplay more ballanced and the marauders will be getting another look in, also maybe another small unit of 10 warriors.

I'm going to build those knights now,thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Tutorials: Battle Report pt1, the components and layout.

So, time for pt 1 in a series of tutorials for writing battle reports.

Components:
Pictures: very important, they should tell the story whether through clever photoshopping or just clearness. not to many though or they will bog the post down.
Explanatory text: this goes under each picture explaining what is going on.
main body of text: this comes here and there telling the story of the report as a whole. these shoudl tell the main overview and the explanatory text the details.
fluff(optional): either at the start the end or tiny bits interjected in italics this is telling the'story'.

Layout: the report should come in a layout of something like this:

introduction:

turn 1
picture
explanation
overview

turn 2
picture
explanation
overview

etc

summary
picture
closing thoughts.

Now obviously that is very vague but it is a rough idea.

Tell us what you think and if i've missed anything,

Thanks for reading,

Jacob

Battle Reports: Great reads or to long posts? (poll related)

When I first got into this hobby I used to love reading the battle reports in white dwarf so I looked online and found This Site and then when I had read all of those I moved onto Lone pilgrims battle reports then I started looking at his main blog then FTW and finaly I started my own blog. After a while I found that I didn't really have time to read a big long battle reports just like I only skim big posts. I do like mine battle overviews just not a full in depth ones. When I do read big ones they are great-amazing but I just don't have time. I was think though is it just me? I am planning on doing some more battle reports. Maybe a mix between long and short ones.

So, do you think battle reports are worth it? Poll, left column NOW!

5 ed (kind of ) 500 Points Terran Hands (my army) Vs IG Stuarts army

I got another game against my mate Stuart the other day. I used a vindicator and four 5 man tactical squads (we didn't bother with the FOC)
Stu used one conscript platoon, colonel Schafer, a leman russ, three heavy wepon teams and two 5 man squads of storm troopers with a sentinal.

The table was relitively clear with a brick wall on one side with a building and some rocks on my side.
I started by moving my vindi ( vindi-anna jones ) and one squad moving up to face the building my two squads moving up the other side leaving one squad in reserve.
Stu put his force out of the walls and his tank moved into cover ( idiot ).
I then moved one of my squads out to the far rightthe other made pot shots with te missile launcher, at some point vindianna made a blow in one of his squads and his ank rolled out.



So far this is the campaign results:

SM me: win 1 lose 0 draw 0

IG Stu: win 0 lose 1 draw 0

N Rob: win 0 lose 0 draw 0

by the end of the turmoil I had squads left o go and try and get t his heavy wepons and our tanks were facing off but we had to stop their for it was time to go I won by about 50 or so points.
This was the first battle of a 4th edition campain involving me Stu and his brother Rob

Battle report: Space marines Terran Hands (my army) VS Imperial gaurd.

Opponent: Stuart. SORRY FOR ANYTHING THAT IS ELIGAL (WARHAMMER WISE) THIS WAS OUR FIRST GAME.
Points: 500.
Rules: 4th edition.
mission: anilate.
Armies


Space marines:
Captain Scatrall of 2nd company: artificer armour, combi-melta, power fist
Tactical squad Burnbreath: 8 men, flamer
Tactical squad Flamefist: 5 men, missle launcher
Deverstator squad hammer hunters: sargent 3 men 2 heavy bolters, one missile launcher.
Dreadnaught Stargone

Imperial gaurd:
Colonel schafer
Karskin squad: 10 man flamer, grenade launcher.
conscript platoon: flamer grenade launcher.
Sentinal
heavy wepon platforms

Turn one: I started by moving all my stuff up ready for a big showdown then stuart bdid the same.
Turn two: I put Flamefist inside a building and opened fire then started shooting a Styu's platoon.
My deverstators shot at one of the five man squads of Karskins and slayed 3 then I moved my dreadnaught up to the building with my comander .
Stuart returned fire with everything but was pretty inefectual exept for when they charged Burnbreath.
The rest of the battle I'll sum up, all that happened was the shooting went realy badly for me and Burnbreath was reduced too to models, my dread took on his walker and eventually killed it
as for the deverstaters they only managed a couple of lucky shots and the good news for me was that his heavy wepons did next to nothing in the end we just counted minutures and it came to a draw.