BLKOUT Battle Report - Big Trouble in Little Ethron (Harlow VS UN)

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@Sniper54579 5 ай бұрын

I enjoy and appreciate the additional commentary about your deployments, strategy, movements etc. makes it easier to follow along and understand what is happening as I watch. Great job man, keep it up!

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 5 ай бұрын

Glad you're enjoying those parts :) I wasn't sure if they were disrupting the flow or not so it's good to hear they're a boon

@MangoPrinter101 5 ай бұрын

recently found about BLKOUT and this really helped me understand how everything works, especially with the descriptions. Keep up the good work!

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 5 ай бұрын

I'm glad my videos helped :) been thinking about a 'scenario' game where I work through each individual action to do a sort of tutorial snapshot but there's a couple good how to videos out there already

@thomasthecrippled3601 4 ай бұрын

Hey, great batrep and I got into the game thanks to you. A sidenote - I don't see you two using control points at all. Every player starts with 3 control points, and you can use them on the special actions that are on each faction's board. Which I believe using those would make the UN elite guys a *lot* more useful. Also, everybody can use a point to activate another unit in the following turn. So when you use the Dataspike unit to give another action to another model, you can actually activate *two* units, but you use one of your three control points. Control points seem pretty huge, but only got a tiny section in the rulebook. You can find it under point 8.6! Makes the entire game a lot more dynamic and the UN especially gains a lot of survivability thanks to Smoke grenades and free whole-team movement that way.

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 4 ай бұрын

We knew about the control points :P but we're both former 40k players and you can't force rerolls with control points here. We know how they work, we just either forget in the moment or don't impliment them into our strategy much

@TehSquare 4 ай бұрын

Much appreciate the report guys

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed :)

@countcroak2640 5 ай бұрын

Another great episode and great opportunity to learn more about the game, thanks again for all the hard work!

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 5 ай бұрын

Of course my friend :) I'm still getting some rules wrong but with every game we're dialing it in. Happy to hear the vids are helping your own runs!

@ianhunter1599 5 ай бұрын

They are running a deal for the Memorial Day weekend. If you spend $100 you get a Midas.

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 5 ай бұрын

I already got two more Dusters T_T and burn cards and Wetwork and the handlers

@SpannSr1970 5 ай бұрын

Would like to see how the Dusters play. Very interested in this game, waffling either this or OPR.

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 5 ай бұрын

I play both XD I'm still learning this one but I'm going to a demo event tomorrow with Handlers so maybe something new soon. Just don't want to fiddle with Dusters if I don't know the base game, you know? As for OPR, I've played in a couple tourneys and do pretty alright. Been rebuilding my main faction for balance actually, and I've wanted to do a batrep for it for a while now.

@SpannSr1970 5 ай бұрын

@@DynamicEngagementGaming113 can’t wait to see.

@noxiousbones 5 ай бұрын

I’m also big on OPR and I’m also pumped to see the Dusters in a game!

@noxiousbones 5 ай бұрын

Is the background music added in post? Or do you play is while playing? It’s the only part of your videos that I’m not a fan of. Just not my thing. Otherwise incredible videos. The recorded “real-time” learning of the game is very useful as I try to learn the game.

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 5 ай бұрын

It's added in post, mainly because without it the video feels sort of lifeless. Was in an audio imbalance thing or are you not a fan of the music itself? Glad it helps either way. If you're not already in the discord then check it out :) the BLKOUT homies are very welcoming and always answering questions

@noxiousbones 5 ай бұрын

@@DynamicEngagementGaming113 it’s just the music itself isn’t to my taste. I understand why you put it in, it definitely helps the gaps between play. But to my own personal opinion it’s kind of repetitive and disingenuous. (Hopefully not music you made because I would feel bad poopooing it lol) But different strokes, if I’m the only person who doesn’t vibe with it maybe it could be turned down a bit? Then if I just adjust the volume on my end it’d be less noticeable. Not sure if you’d be willing to change it because I know finding good free tracks is tricky and you try to set a vibe for the videos, honestly its such a minor gripe in an otherwise great series so far.

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 5 ай бұрын

Thanka for the feedback; I'm working on expanding my music library but at the moment I'm only using teknoaxe because his music has never given me trouble before. I'm also kind of a sucker for guitar XP but yeah I'll fiddle with the sound balance a little more next time. This one in particular I forgot about the music until I'd already uploaded, then had to reedit and reupload so it was a bit rushed

@SpannSr1970 5 ай бұрын

Another excellent game.

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 5 ай бұрын

Thanks much homie o7

@8triagrammer 2 ай бұрын

Do you guys like this better than Infinity?

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 2 ай бұрын

I very briefly looked into Infinity, but didn't have money to get into it at the time despite how much I loved the setting and vibe of the company. A lot of the guys on discord played Infinity before ending up here as well; in fact most of my opponents for these batreps have some experience with it if only in passing. The general vibe seems to be that people who end up playing BLKOUT love how much simpler to learn it is, on top of how much cheaper it is to get into, in comparison to Infinity. Both games are really good, but BLKOUT is a lot easier on the brain and the rules/mods to play it are completely free.

@8triagrammer 2 ай бұрын

@@DynamicEngagementGaming113 Infinity is a very misunderstood animal. It can be played at the same scale as Blkout (5-10 dudes per side), and there's even a "Code One" version that has less extra rules. The basic rules are actually simple, it's all the equipt. and skills that make it look intimidating, but you don't have to use all that stuff. In that sense the rulebook is mostly like a dictionary, most of it isn't meant to be read through. Only the first 10 pages have the actual basic rules. I'd highly recommend giving it a go - it'll change the way you look at the rules of EVERY wargame, even RPG combat. HMU if you want me to do a demo game.

@DynamicEngagementGaming113 2 ай бұрын

@@8triagrammer While I agree it's simpler than a lot of people seem to think, it's still a good bit more complex and that leads to heavier mental load. For instance the activation system in Infinity adds a whole other layer to planning. I'll stick to BLKOUT for now :P playing too many games at the moment to dig into a beefier one like Infinity.

@8triagrammer 2 ай бұрын

@@DynamicEngagementGaming113 You're not wrong. I'd still say try it with a hard cap of 5 models per side, which will solve most beginner issues. And I'm definitely not saying replace Blkout. I don't think they're mutually exclusive. But it's all good to talk about it, it's another to actually try it, I'm telling you it's brilliant - probably the closest thing to real combat there is in a mini wargame.