"[WGR] WFB - Orks & Goblins vs. Lizardmen - Maps & Pictures" Topic

Hey all, may I share a battlereport made by me and my friend. It's easy to follow with great maps and pictures, supported with a well written text.

Enjoy it here :)

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Excellent report. I like how you can see the whole field of battle.

How do you create those "neat" red directional arrows and stuff?

That has got to be the best represented battle report I've ever seen. Professional magazine level and then some.

A cool report! I also applaud the battlefield level aerial photography. Was that photoshopped with the units layered over the tabletop background or was the aerial recce live!
@ WarWizard – I use PowerPoint. Insert the battlefield as an image – add arrow head autoshapes and then save as a JPG. I've only ever used blockshapes to represent my units on a bitmap field of battle though

I've just looked at the 40K reports here TMP link and I have to applaud again. I can see that the units in those reports do appear to be layered onto the image. That's a lot of work but for an excellent result.

wow, thanx for the great response!

To answer the questions, yes all unites are layered onto the background. In short I take a picture of the empty battlefield, and all the model types, edit them in Photoshop and then I import them to Illustrator were I move the "models" around the canvas. I use Illustrator tools for drawing movement arrows and such. Skull marks for showing death of models is on a layer as well and is placed on top of the model just slain. Layers though is probably not the right word, Illustrator calls them Objects.

Siggi

This is awesome! I'll be back to read more in depth later and have more questions / comments.
GREAT!!!!!

Where are you guys from?

Very nice battle report.

How do you manage to get the birds eye pictures of the gaming table.