Teutonic Knights "Fall In" Round One

Hepius · Post by **Hepius** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:21 am

Had a great time at Fall In last weekend. It was my first wargame tournament in around five years. It was great to be back.

I took on Ethan Zorick's Ghaznavids in Round One. It looked like it was going to be a complete blowout, but I managed to pull out some points in the end.

Here is my Round One report.

http://sites.google.com/site/mattheppe/ ... -round-one

babyshark · Post by **babyshark** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:43 am

Nice report. If you keep this up, pretty soon you will have the Hochmeister of the Order offering commentary on your generalship a la Hannibal.

Marc

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:44 am

That's great. You even added the madaxeman style captions! The models are really good-looking as well. If there's one possible improvement to be made is to take wider shots so we can see more of the action. The ones you have show the painting quality very well but sometimes it's hard to understand the context of the action.

Hepius · Post by **Hepius** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:24 am

Yeah, after I got home I realized I needed some more wide shots. I added the diagrams to try and help out.

I'm afraid my 4.7 megapixel camera won't handle the larger shots well. I wonder if my wife will let me get a better camera so that I can improve my battle reports?

I can't claim credit for the quality of the Teutonic figures. (The ones with grass bases are mine, however). The guys on snowy bases were purchased by a friend. I then traded him a ton of 7YW Prussians for them.

frederic · Post by **frederic** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:31 pm

Great report with nice close shots and the diagrams help a lot too.
Link added

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:29 pm

4.7mp should be more than enough to capture the shots for the web - IME its all about setting the lighting and setting the camera to take into account the lighting - and MS picture vewer can do lots of correction after the event anyway

But great reports

I even was inspired to create a "Hannibal-style" Grand Master for you - feel free to download him and use on your site if you wish !!

tim
www.madaxeman.com[/url]

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:13 pm

madaxeman wrote:4.7mp should be more than enough to capture the shots for the web - IME its all about setting the lighting and setting the camera to take into account the lighting - and MS picture vewer can do lots of correction after the event anyway

But great reports

I even was inspired to create a "Hannibal-style" Grand Master for you - feel free to download him and use on your site if you wish !!

tim
www.madaxeman.com[/url]

So when do we get the Grandmasters mug complete with appropriate quotation?

Hepius · Post by **Hepius** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:36 am

Tim,

The Grandmaster is great! I'm glad to have him on board. (I couldn't get the blinking eyes and hatching chick to work on my website. Suggestions?)

Your battle reports were my inspiration.

Hep

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:23 pm

Nice report Hep, love reading text and looking at pics, really helps to give you a feel for how things went.

Brian

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:39 pm

Hepius wrote:The Grandmaster is great! I'm glad to have him on board. (I couldn't get the blinking eyes and hatching chick to work on my website. Suggestions?)

The Grandmaster is an animated gif, so an image that has several looping frames of animation. I don't think slideshare supports animated gifs and that is the problem.

frederic · Post by **frederic** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:15 pm

Hepius wrote:Tim,

I couldn't get the blinking eyes and hatching chick to work on my website. Suggestions?

You save the image as "master.gif".
You upload it on your website (eg : http://sites.google.com/site/mattheppe/logos/master.gif)
Then on your site page you use the code <IMG> or <IMG> if it's for the page "http://sites.google.com/site/mattheppe/ ... -round-one".

camlan · Post by **camlan** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:54 pm

Hepius wrote: I can't claim credit for the quality of the Teutonic figures. (The ones with grass bases are mine, however). The guys on snowy bases were purchased by a friend. I then traded him a ton of 7YW Prussians for them.

Ahhhh.............I thought I recognized those Tuetonics..........I think I painted them about 5 years ago, and sold them. Glad you are enjoying them [I am actually doing them again......one of my many projects]

Dave

Hepius · Post by **Hepius** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:51 pm

They fought well and deserve none of the fault for my losses. You did a beautiful job painting them.

Hep

Andy1972 · Post by **Andy1972** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:53 pm

I used him as my avatar on myspace.