The Demise of the Intelligent Battle Report

A while back I got my self a subscription to Wargames Illustrated. I'd bought the magazine off and on for 10 years. Wargames Illustrated is much more in the style of a traditional monthly magazine with a mix of content, including battle reports along with new product releases and nice pictures of painted models.

I like my battle reports to give me some insight into the strategy of the players, why have they done that, so that so that I can learn something from the battle reports. The battle reports in Warhammer Visions have become pictures of pretty models with very few words. So it was with some surprise and disappointment that that I read the battle report in the latest WI and it contains no descriptions of the tactics the players are using, but loads of close up of Jadgtigers hiding in a doormat and explosion markers over all the models.

Fortunately there is a way out of this impending disaster. Phew! Youtube has loads of channels about wargaming and has a variety of different people playing different games. These people also cover the range of gamers, there are people posting different kinds of games from the serious tournament gamer to the games run as part of a narrative campaign complete with named characters and D&D style role playing aspects.

So who else watches Youtube chanels and which ones do people like the best?