Battle Reporter Reporting from the Front Line of the Table Top

31Oct/091

‘Dawn of the Dead’ Scenario Game

Friday, we had a 'Dawn of the Dead' scenario at my FLGS from around 6 till closing (although ACTUALLY, we only played until about 9:45).  BASICALLY, the scenario was that you get 2 Troop choices to score points for killing zombies and other nasties. Once your models are killed the 1st time, one of your units would come back as zombies and score points for killing living models.  TECHNICALLY, we could attack fellow players from Turn 2 onwards, but we were all too busy dealing with the zombies to do that (although, plans were made, but never executed).

We ended up having seven players involved; they were:

  • A Chaos Daemon player with 15 Bloodletters and 17 Daemonettes (me)
  • Another Chaos Daemon player with 30 Bloodletters
  • A Imperial Guard player with a Platoon (~40 guardsmen) and allied Sisters of Battle in a Rhino
  • A Deathwing player with 2 squads of 5 Termies
  • A Space Marine player with 2 Tac Squads in Rhinos
  • A Necron player with 2 groups of Warriors (what else?)
  • A Chaos Space Marine player with 2 Squads (one was in a Rhino... maybe both)

I made a quick Battle-Report of this here: Dawn of the Dead Battle Report

The pictures are here:

If you were there and have corrections for any of my notes though, shoot me an email and I'll make the fixes.  This is all based on my memory which ain't what it used to be.

22Sep/090

Status of the Battle Reporter…

I've made many small improvements to my Battle Reporter Wordpress Plugin and I'm hoping to have an initial release before the end of the month.

What's done so far is the output of the Reports and a Rating System.  Also, the Options page is completed and allows the administrator to Add/Remove Armies and Game Systems.  My initial rollout is including armies for Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Space Hulk, Flames of War, Warmachine, and Hordes.  I also have entries for 2 board games (Pandemic and Ticket to Ride), but both games are disabled by default.

The big things still needing to be done are (in the order I'm workign on them):

  1. Finish Comment Functionality
  2. Finish Pictures-in-Report Functionality
  3. Create Search/Browse Page
  4. Create Report Input Page
  5. Create Admin Pages for Editing Reports

So, yeah, there's alot to do still.  But, This is the biggest coding project I've undertaken in a while (and I had to learn AJAX for it), so I'm happy with the results so far.

Hopefully more will be coming later.  For now, I'm going to go ahead and turn on the Battle Reports page and hope to get feedback/suggestions based on what's there now and as it gets more complete.

17Sep/090

2000pt Capture and Hold – Daemonhunters vs. Space Marines

Another quick and dirty Battle Report from the escalation league I was in.  I had added some non-Grey Knights by this point so I had officially changed to Daemonhunters instead of referring to my army as Grey Knights.  It was a sad day.

No major updates still on the Wordpress plug-in.  I've done the database schemas and basic grunt work to get it going.  I'm working on using the Battle Reports I've already done to give me some sample data to get the display done and from there to move on to adding functionality it input them without hacking the database directly.

Since I'm sure you're not here to listen to me go on about me coding stuff, here's the Battle Report after the jump...

15Sep/090

Battle Report: 1000pt Capture and Hold – Grey Knights (Daemonhunters) vs. Imperial Guard

Just a quick note...  I play both Daemonhunters and Imperial Guard.  This was an escalation league game I was in as the Daemonhunters, but up until the 1500pt. games, I ran purely with Grey Knights.  Sadly, I don't have pictures, but I'm workign on remembering to take pics more in the future.

Also, I am working on coding a plug-in for Wordpress to make creating and posting Battle Reports simple and easy.  It's still early in it's progress, but as I get it up and running, I hope to have it unveiled for viewing this Winter.  I'm aiming to have it open for outside contributions early 2010.   More details to come, but feel free to read the Battle Report following the jump...