Mortal Gods – Behind the scenes of a battle report

Dino and I have been talking about some things and one partially type of content that I want to give a try are battle reports.

I like producing the reviews, but it takes up a lot of time and only fills the building part of the hobby pillars, where as battle reports are documented games, which means they provide for multiple of the hobby pillars, as you do have to assemble and paint the miniatures you need for your games, get to build terrain and have a game with them.

This means the upcoming battle report is a proof of concept, to get a feel for the work load involved, the scope we're going for and to see what we might need to produce content on the level we're aiming for. And not just for Mortal Gods, but for other systems you saw and will see on here as well.

First off all, in case of the Mortal Gods battle reports, a huge thank you not only to Dino for taking care of that game, with the great article series he wrote and magnificient looking miniatures, you can see on here, but to Robert of Wolpertinger Miniatures, as he supported Dino in building the demo table and greek buildings.

We took pictures, both with the smartphone and with a DSLR camera, to documentate the game, along with writting down everything that happened. Currently "boiling down" that information into an entertaining and understandable content is our to-do. As well as post-processing the pictures and preparing overview imagery for the turns.

But of course, you can't game or work on an empty stomach, and I try to provide dishes in a thematic fitting way to these social gaming events. In this case I prepared Turkey Gyros and Greek beer from Delta near Thassaloniki. Had grapes and other snacks as well, and while there are fitting soundtracks for day like this (Troja OST and Udo Jürgen's Griechischer Wein), we were so focused on gaming, that we didn't even had music in the background.

After the game itself, we used change that we had everything set up to take some pictures. We did scenic shots of some interesting interaction during the game as well as army shots.

While the gear wasn't the problem. The EOS 700D is still doing a really good job, light is an issue along with a more fitting backdrop, as I misplaced the ones I printed. I ordered more light and some coloured card board, as it is a flat surface and shouldn't be shiny / reflect the light sources. By recommendation of my brother in law, I picked up a Amaran Ace 25x LED Light, and I'm very happy with the first impression. Very bright, much more power than my Raleno LEDs and in combination, this should be fine. As some of these lights work with (internal) battery packs, I ordered a multi-charger with longer cables to run them with a direct power feed.

We'll keep you posted on the progress, as we're parallel editing the pictures and notes of the game.