Hello All,

The Durandal Initiative will be bringing you another exciting match of Armada, live tomorrow night. Keep an eye out for our pre-match tactics videos which we're hoping to post late tonight.

By the end of the week I hope to have the follow up Batrep posted as well.

Cheers!

Pre-match fleet build and tactics video is up now:

And a rewatch (not the whole thing.. I jumped around) with commentary by yours truly wherein I detail my demise at the hands of those Imperial tyrants and their not only one, but two 'we don't have to play fair' huge space triangles of death. Excuse the stumbling dialogue. That's what you get with unscripted television.

I like the format. You should always do one pre and one post

@teeseeuu that is our goal moving forward. Unfortunately, as it tends to do, life has other ideas for us sometimes and we may not always have the free time to do these. But we are going to be giving it our best! Hope you enjoy!

p.s. Big shout out to @durandal343 for doing a great job with this post match Batrep!

I really think you guys have an excellent stream. You have a patreon?

I try to watch live and comment, but life...

3 hours ago, teeseeuu said:

I like the format. You should always do one pre and one post

Like @SgtDurandal said, we do enjoy the planning before and then the 'that was really stupid' conversations after almost as much as actually playing. I intended the rewatch to be much shorter since we still would like to have a more condensed full match vid (about an hour) that removes all the thinking and bickering and dial setting and 'I'm sure I can make this maneuver tool do something different even though I've been at it for 10 minutes already' from the raw footage. Ideally we'd like to show a little about what we were thinking beforehand with build and basic fleet strategy, the match, and maybe some post commentary on how the match went and if our strategy worked as we'd hoped.

In the real world though I think we'll end up with a mix of it all since that would mean 6 videos per match (2 tactics vids, raw livestream, edited livestream, 2 post match vids).

Personally, to feed my armada habit, I plan on going back and doing more 'rewatch' videos with commentary since they are pretty easy to do. We'll see how that goes with time etc. Mostly we do this for us because we're extra nerdy that way but we're glad others enjoy it too. We're by no means pros but sometimes it's good to see games that aren't just the top tournament lists going at it between regular Joes who are just trying to have some fun.

Love this stuff. What hardware are you using out of interest for your streams?

Thanks, glad you enjoy the streams. We swap back and forth between our houses so we each have a slightly different setup. For my place the over head cam is a Logitech 930e attached to a cheap security camera bracket and the action/dice cam is a 920c attached to a cheap mic arm. I have a custom PC that's fairly middle of the road and other than that I use a wireless keyboard to handle the simple transitions. Nothing too extravagant but I like the end product.

I'll let @durandal343 give a run down of his setup.

We're always open to suggestions for improving our content so feel free to post comments on the channel anytime.