Blunt's Rifles, A Sharp Practice Peninsular War Campaign

[Malamute]

Splendid stuff,very much enjoying your AARs and the campaign in general.

[Captain Reid]

Splendid stuff,very much enjoying your AARs and the campaign in general.

 Thanks, Malamute (do you have a saloon where bunch of the boys were whooping it up?). I wish I could get better photos but I'm no photographer and messing about for too long getting snaps makes the games take ages.

[Captain Reid]

 Escape to Vitória

 Will Valentine Moon win through to  Vitória? Can Major Manque be safely delivered to Ace British agent Miss Juliet Mycock's tender care? Or will Lech Wodka's lancers polish them off?

 

[Captain Reid]

 Assault on La Concha.

 The 42nd Highlanders make their first appearance.

[Captain Reid]

Riposte at Iglesia de los Santos Pederastas and Race to Río de la Manteca are the latest reports.

[Bloodysword]

Awesome Battle Report.  On average how long do they take you to produce?  I'd like to blog my ascent into Sharp practice but it seems daunting.

[Captain Reid]

On average how long do they take you to produce?

 Good question.

 Taking photos probably adds up to half an hour to game time.
 Editing the photos on my phone (simply cropping, sometimes partially rotating and then auto-balancing) takes about another half hour I suppose.
 Inserting them into Wordpress is easy now as it can be done with multi-selection and one click. Say another ten minutes.
 Writing up the report is maybe an hour or an hour an a half (they're not long word-wise but I tend to do them in a few sections).

 Note all my times are conservative. They are not typical male 'It'll only take me ten minutes to put up a shelf' times (when actually it ends up taking three hours).

 So actual working time not including taking the photos in-game, maybe around 2 hours, give or take 15 mins.

 Actual time taken to do that probably nearer 3-4 hours allowing for cups of tea, accidental fuck-ups, being distracted, etc. But it's something I like doing as it's a permanent record of the games for me. And hopefully some other people find them of amusement/interest/possibly even inspiration also.

 It beats painting, putting up shelves or staring at the walls, drooling . . .

[Furt]

Splendid games and good effort keeping at it.

Did this in the day with our Indostan games and I must say it took me a hell of a lot longer to get them "published" with blogger.

[Captain Reid]

Splendid games and good effort keeping at it.

Did this in the day with our Indostan games and I must say it took me a hell of a lot longer to get them "published" with blogger.

 Cheers.

 Being able to edit in Google and then upload all the pictures in a single batch direct into the blog post does make a huge difference.