WarGamerGirl YouTube Battle Reports

[J. Beatnik]

Big fan of the batreps. I'll send these to my girlfriend to watch as she's a big fan of girl gamers and is just starting to learn the game with her Menoth.

[PG_ICleadpeople]

Love the format. I really like the damage grid that popped up in the Menoth report. Can't wait for the next one!

[Sp1ice]

Very Nice.. being a new player found it very informative.

[LichLordVexing]

I see kendo swords! Unless you're practicing bushido, then I see bushido practice swords! Also, wickedly sweet batreps!

[Swiss Tony]

Nice videos clear, well presented and entertaining.

[Romo Lampkin]

One of the best battle reports I have seen until now (and I watched nearly all bluetablepainting, Vaul's and miniwargaming battle reports), in particular for the beginners. Everything - the pace, shooting, angles, comments - is just right. There's hardly anything that I would do differently. Do keep them coming!

[talthar]

Really great reports...and two more victories for the Motherland! I've subscribed so please keep 'em coming.

[Valander]

Just watched the new one, Khador v. Cryx. Love your reports, but this one had a few rules errors that could have changed things pretty significantly.

1. Skarlock should be on a small, not medium, base.
2. Scrap Thralls are still solos, even though you buy them in sets of 3. They would not have needed to activate at the same time, nor be anywhere close to each other. The last point being particularly important, since they chain reactioned themselves to death.
3. Spray Attacks are simultaneous. So, when you sprayed and destroyed the Standard Bearer and Officer, you said, "the Officer doesn't get a tough roll," but in fact he would have since that attack was simultaneous with the one that destroyed the standard.

Keep 'Em coming!

[Skatari]

Afternoon ms. Miranda.

Just thought id add yet another comment to the affirmative. Your battle reports on youtube are one of the only two reports i actually enjoy watching.

Very well balanced amount of detail and information given so you dont have the "yeah i get it" from regular players and the "dude.. what?" from newbies.

I hope you continue to post the reports up on youtube as the other channel i surf for the warmachine reports is usually clogged with other game systems that really do not appeal to me.

The one and only thing that i wish were different is that you played Cygnar rather than Khador but i spose you cant win em all =)

Well done and keep it up =)

[sliganian]

Just adding to the chorus of praise for these reports. Another thing I appreciate (as a parent) is that the language stays 'clean', which is a plus when I go to show my kids these reports.

I know during my own games at my friends' places the language gets decidedly 'unclean' now and then and I notice that other BatReps sometimes have this language issue on occasion.

Oh, and one thing from the Menoth report (#2?): a charging Manhunter-tress gets 4 dice on this initial atack damage roll not 3.

[toxicwisdom]

"...i am saddened you think my arms are so hairy..."

Sorry to cut in, but that was too funny...nice batreps !

[WarGamerGirl]

Hey all just letting you know I have some new battle report videos posted.

Khador vs Cryx (older but wasn't included in my original post)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8bTxapS4FM

Khador vs Scyrah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCIAoJi5wwM

I apologize in advance that I make the mistake of not counting my 'jacks armor as 17 after reign of death. I thought that it only applied when melee attacks were used but I went back over the Devastator rules and sure enough I goofed.

[Septimus]

Hooray! New ones. I like how you use different music for each side. It's a nice touch.

[Da-Rock]

Good report, I like the style.

Not that it mattered at all, but the Phoenix's sword on a hit has Continuous fire.

Good stuff!

[e314]

Very nice reports.

Please continue!

[Silopolis]

These reports are a lot of fun to watch. Keep up the good work!

The Ret vs. Khador one was a prime example of why I'm not a huge fan of that sort of scenario game. It ended just as the armies were getting in each other's business! I wanted more smashy!

[TarlSS]

Hey, who is your other player? I would love to hear the opposing commentary

[sliganian]

Hey, who is your other player? I would love to hear the opposing commentary

This! I would especially like to know (as a Khador player who plays against Cryx most often) WHY the Cryx player didn't FEAT in his BatRep. It would have stop cold the Khador offense in the next turn.

[Mastershake]

The batrep vs. Ret made me cringe. Stormfalls are only SPD 5 so they shouldn't be running 12", but more importantly they threat 21" (5" walk and 16" range with Snipe ammo) and their contribution to the game over three turns without losing a model was a single shot. Should be illegal for a unit with that kind of threat range to go all game without shooting. It was also cringe worthy to see the assassins practically on another table with how far away they were from everything relevant, he should've at least used them to contest and not lose points in his turn. Also, I really couldn't believe he charged with the Phoenix. He had walking distance and was only dice -1, losing an attack just to get another die is just a bad trade-off unless you have an ability giving you a free charge.

As an addendum, your opponent didn't roll enough dice for the Force Hammer on the Devastator. He's got a boost for the feat and an additional die for being slammed into a model of equal or larger base size. Also, your Juggernaught had DEF 14 when it was being drug by the battlemages since it had cover from the Griffon wreckage and while we're on that, push effects are slowed by terrain just like advancing, so it would've been half speed.

[SevenSins]

a nice set of reps yet again

One thing though, most scenarios score control points at the end of the second players second turn, might have changed the scyrah battle a bit (unless the current rule package differs from what I'm used to seing)

anyhoo, thanks for sharing

[PG_harsh]

I very much appreciate your style of battle report, and as an added bonus you have inspired my wife to play Khador. She didn't believe there were women who played. Thank you.

[PG_jbarket]

Love the batreps, errors aside. We all make mistakes gaming at times.

I was curious if you'd let us in on how you edit the videos? They just keep getting better, and with the damage/feat and so on in there, just fantastic.

[WarGamerGirl]

Hey all:

I've uploaded a new battle 50pt report of Khador vs Trollbloods. You can see it here:

Khador vs Trollbloods:
http://youtu.be/6guceOWNeo8

I have also edited the OP to reflect any new content.

As always, your feedback is appreciated.

~WarGamerGirl

[Zid]

Hey all:

I've uploaded a new battle 50pt report of Khador vs Trollbloods. You can see it here:

Khador vs Trollbloods:
[URL="http://youtu.be/6guceOWNeo8"]http://youtu.be/6guceOWNeo8[

I have also edited the OP to reflect any new content.

As always, your feedback is appreciated.

~WarGamerGirl

Hopefully we can get a game in someday! Which stores do you usually go to?

[Canadianized]

Look forward to watching it! Think you might stop by Saturdays?

[Aron Figaro]

Cool stuff, but wow, your Cryx opponent scrubbed out on a lot of stuff. Hopefully he or she learned from a few mistakes, notably letting those Winter Guard go unmolested when they rushed up the field like that. Even just a Crippling Grasp to prevent them from spraying would have been good enough, though honestly I probably would've feated and killed them all, and Crippled the Devastator. I'm really not sure what was going on there. Also not sure what was going on with that LIST, but that's another story; even with the Slayer retained, Cankerworm should've been Tartarus and a Warwitch Siren.

Your use of the shocktrooper is pretty cool, I have to give you that. My fiancee just got 10 as hand me downs from me, and it's nice to see them accomplish things in games.

[Maudlin]

Hey all:

I've uploaded a new battle 50pt report of Khador vs Trollbloods. You can see it here:

~WarGamerGirl

I think you missed applying the +2 DEF from Guard Dog at the end, but I have to say I really like the production values of these videos.

Would you mind commenting on the software you use?

[Canadianized]

At around 27:30, you have Winterguard shooting at the Axer. Since he was attacked by a Shocktrooper, he would be engaged, putting him to DEF 18 (you said 14), and you wouldn't be able to CRA the beast. Also, you'd have to roll to hit on your Shocktrooper. Same thing with your widow makers.

I do appreciate how the rules errors I've seen wouldn't be super game changing, though.

[missing1leg]

Not errors per say, but tactics suggestions for the Troll player:

1. Mauler's initial attacks @ the devastator most likely should have gone for a 2h throw for the Grab and Smash @ the Man-O-War. This would have knocked down 2-3 of them as well as disengaging Mulg for a charge (which is a free damage die due to Wild Aggression).

2. Whenever attacking "hard targets" (anything over armor 20 imo) Mulg should receive the rage animus (which Doomshaper can cast for free once per turn or the Runebearer could have used Power Glyphs to cast). For this reason, its a very good idea to keep the damage buffing beast (Mauler/Pyre/Slag) as a second wave beast instead of first wave.

3. All dire trolls have snacking. Mulg/Mauler/Bomber should have healed 1d3 each time they boxed a living enemy model (shocktroopers/winterguard I think were relevant to this)

4. Not hugely significant due to Irusk's feat, but Mulg's club has critical smite so could have slammed the Mechanic into Irusk which would have resulted in a power 13 collateral damage roll to get the damage started on the caster (and knockdown under other circumstances making the assassination much more reliable).

[Brandubh]

Nice work, Miranda. I really enjoy your battle reports.

[Whiteout]

Great video Miranda. Really inspires me to make some too. How was the damage grid applied to the video?

[PG_DesertWynd]

Great video Miranda. Really inspires me to make some too. How was the damage grid applied to the video?

+1

Great stuff Miranda

[Coffee_twitch]

I have 1 question for the community (without actually bringing this to the rules forum). I am still new to using the Conquest myself. I was curious how you got 4 covering fire templates out there on the first turn? From my understanding of linked guns (I'm paraphrasing as I don't actually have the card in front of me): After attacking with initial attacks, this model can attack again targeting the same model as the initial attack.

So from my understanding, I would shoot at a model, if it still lives I can shoot with the same weapon system again at the same model. So how would that work with the Covering templates? Would I get 2 cover templates from each gun? I personally dont think so, as I am not targeting a model with my initial attack.

Great Report though! I love the graphic you used for the beast's life spirals! Looks awesome!

[Canadianized]

I have 1 question for the community (without actually bringing this to the rules forum). I am still new to using the Conquest myself. I was curious how you got 4 covering fire templates out there on the first turn? From my understanding of linked guns (I'm paraphrasing as I don't actually have the card in front of me): After attacking with initial attacks, this model can attack again targeting the same model as the initial attack.

So from my understanding, I would shoot at a model, if it still lives I can shoot with the same weapon system again at the same model. So how would that work with the Covering templates? Would I get 2 cover templates from each gun? I personally dont think so, as I am not targeting a model with my initial attack.

Instead of attacking with this weapon during this model's activation, if it is not currently crippled you can place two 3" AOEs anywhere completely within this weapon's range.

It's the next ability under Linked Guns. The weapon system itself is actually called Secondary Battery. Linked Guns is one of the 2 abilities the Second Battery has.

[Brandubh]

I have 1 question for the community (without actually bringing this to the rules forum). I am still new to using the Conquest myself. I was curious how you got 4 covering fire templates out there on the first turn? From my understanding of linked guns (I'm paraphrasing as I don't actually have the card in front of me): After attacking with initial attacks, this model can attack again targeting the same model as the initial attack.

So from my understanding, I would shoot at a model, if it still lives I can shoot with the same weapon system again at the same model. So how would that work with the Covering templates? Would I get 2 cover templates from each gun? I personally dont think so, as I am not targeting a model with my initial attack.

IIRC, if you forfeit the attacks with the chest guns on the Conquest (it has two of them) you get two templates per gun, so four altogether. So, in lieu of attacking with the guns, she can drop the templates. But the "big guns" can still shoot.

That said, I forgot to mention that I think it's really cool that Miranda modeled her Conquest to have a movable gun and the video of the guns swiveling to aim at target models was awesome.

[Coffee_twitch]

IIRC, if you forfeit the attacks with the chest guns on the Conquest (it has two of them) you get two templates per gun, so four altogether. So, in lieu of attacking with the guns, she can drop the templates. But the "big guns" can still shoot.

That said, I forgot to mention that I think it's really cool that Miranda modeled her Conquest to have a movable gun and the video of the guns swiveling to aim at target models was awesome.

Good to know. Thanks
I also agree that the movable gun and the video of the gun moving is a nice added touch

[WarGamerGirl]

Great video Miranda. Really inspires me to make some too. How was the damage grid applied to the video?

An animator friend of mine built the damage grids and damage markers separately as .TGA files. I use Adobe Premiere to edit the battle report and when I drop the .tga images on the timeline Premiere automatically recognizes the alpha channel and keys it out...so you can lay it over your live image pretty easily. The damage markers are laid on top of the first damage grid image and I play each damage marker for about 6 frames before going to the next.

[Yzor]

Great new battle reports. Fantastic job as usual. Shame you went out the way you did as otherwise you had it.
A rules comment on the Khador/Trollbloods game. On Khador turn 4 I think the Winterguard CRA at the Troll Axer but you can't CRA a target in melee (he was engaging the shield walled guys).

[VagrantPoet]

I just watched the Khador Trollbloods game. These are really really nice battle reports. The quality blew my mind a little bit.

[Mastershake]

The Bomber shouldn't havve been able to throw at the Winterguard. At 31:36, the target of the bomb appears from the camera angle to have LoS blocked to it from the bomber by the two winterguard in front. Actually here, took a screen shot and drew some lines real quick. Right off hand I dont think Bombers have Arcing Fire, but that ability would make it a legal shot otherwise the target was invalid.