What sort of battle reports do we want to see?

[dwkay57]

Does the editorial team review forum reports to see which ones might make good Slingshot articles?

[Patrick Waterson]

I shall leave our Editor to answer that one.  At present, I suspect not, as our volunteers have limited time on their hands, but in the future, who knows?

[Justin Swanton]

I've felt for some time that we need more diagrammatic battle reports in Slingshot, and I prefer diagrams (obviously) that show exactly who went where and did what.

Doing diagrams from photos is straightforward for gridded systems. For free movement systems I can do it but it is essential that the four corners of the battlefield are visible in the image. What I do is take the photo into Photoshop, then use the free distort tool to line up the battlefield corners with a regular bird's eye view battlefield rectangle. This moves all the photographed bases into a bird's eye view position from which I can draw an accurate diagram. Something like this:

[Imperial Dave]

I'm with you Justin on the use of diagrams although I do like seeing both diagrams and photos in a report. The photos give you a visual feel for the battlefield whereas the diagrams give you a tactical view of a batlefield

[Justin Swanton]

I agree. A mix of diagrams and photos is the ideal option.