Crimisus video report

Well, after several attempts - including a turn by turn report which I was forced to discard when I realised I had inadvertently cut my head out of the picture for the last six turns! - I've posted a video report of the battle mentioned in my previous post. It's not perfect by any means (no one should have to hear as many 'ums' in their entire lifetime as they are going to hear in this video!) but I'll take away a few points I can work on for next time (if indeed there is a next time).

I would normally post a few photos at this point for the people (and I number myself amongst them) who as a rule hate watching video of twits waffling about wargames, but the memory card was full, so the video is all there is, sorry.

Trebia in miniature with Lost Battles. Video reports.

I recently played through a couple of refights of Trebia using Lost Battles, with the idea being to video the games as pseudo-instructional efforts.

I gave it two goes, and while the second effort is far superior to the first, it's still very long, and contains a mistake which, although not game-breaking, got me annoyed with myself.  Given the number of times I've played the system you'd think I'd be able to count correctly!   Grrrr! 

Still, it's too much of a mission to remake it again just on account of that, so I've posted it, error and all.

I daresay that my droning voice and ubiquitous use of 'so' as a transitional tool will drive any viewers up the wall, but I'll put the videos up here anyway.  Feel free to let me know what you think.  I have plenty of soap and water to wash the filth off, so don't hold back! 

Part 1:  Introduction.

Part 2:  Deployment turn.

Part 3: Turn 2.

Part 4: Turn 3.

Part 5: Turn 4.

Part 6: Turn 5.

Part 7: Turn 6.

Part 8: Turn 7 and wrap.

Lost Battles instructional videos.

Here are some instructional videos I put together some time ago as an introduction to Lost Battles.  They were done on the fly and are pretty amateur but may be of some use to some, I hope!

Part one:

Part two:

Part three:

Part four:

Video report - Paraitacene with Lost Battles

I've been experimenting with some video making software today and thought I'd use some photos from a Lost Battles game I did a while ago to put together a slightly tongue-in-cheek AAR as a wee tester.

You can see the results here...

What do you reckon?  Time to start concentrating more on my day job? 

The Negoro-gumi

The fighting monks of Negoro-ji temple are quite famous in Japan as one of the religious warrior orders.  You can read a little about them here.

Last weekend at the local summer festival some re-enactors (presumably associated with the temple) were demonstrating arquebus fire.  I always manage to miss the demonstration, but for some reason this year I was lucky enough to be there on time with the flip camcorder on hand. 

Here is the video, and apologies for the shakiness:

Interestingly enough, while Japanese are not generally known for their height, the outfits made these chaps all look like quite big guys, and although there were only a few of them it was easy to imagine that a larger contingent, attired in this fashion, would appear quite fearsome.