We’ve played loads of games over video since March. I’ve hosted far more than I have played in - so this is probably mainly from a host / umpire perspective.
Early on we had lots of thoughts about doing clever things with the camera, but we have ended up stripping back the games and making them smaller to make them more remote player friendly. We’ve found 2 or 3 people seems best, either 2 remote player and an umpire, or one local player and one remote player. We have played a few multi-player games but these can end up with a lot of waiting around. We use Google meet mainly, but it certainly doesn’t handle multiple voice streams at the same time, which means that too many people speaking at once is a problem.
We’ve certainly found the problem with not knowing the number of wounds on units - we tend to use small d6 for this, but have swapped this to using a separate marker for each wound. Also with smaller scale figures it can be hard to tell the sides apart - differences in basing or using different wound markers can help with this.
Most of the games we play don’t require too much accuracy or precision in movement which certainly helps. But at times it can be hard to understand quite what the player wants their troops to do, but generally it works pretty well. Also rules that have command uncertainty help, as the players already except a degree of friction in what is happening.
If I want to play a computer game, I will play a computer game. But there is something different and more about playing a miniatures game, even if it is over a video link. I’m not sure I can see the attraction of setting up something like a virtual table top to play a miniatures game but as a computer game - seems to loose the benefits of both media.
I have to say I have generally enjoyed hosting games, more than playing them. But a lot of the ones I have played have been with a lot of players, and lot of switching of rules, but there have been some good ones. As the host you do need to have figures for both sides, but as a group we have done some sending of armies on holidays, to ensure that the host has enough troops in one place!