A Great Skirmish, a Win, and Stas’ Very First Battle Report Video
Battle report, but make it homemade
This one is a short and very personal battle-report entry straight from our chat: Stas won, and by all accounts it was a great skirmish.
That was the key message we got first, and honestly, sometimes that is exactly the energy we want from the hobby: a good game, a satisfying result, and the immediate urge to tell the group about it.
The important part: the battle was fun
Stas summed it up perfectly: it was a win, and it was a wonderful skirmish. That already tells us most of what we need to know. Not every battle report has to be a turn-by-turn breakdown with diagrams, odds calculations, and post-game statistical analysis. Sometimes the whole point is just that a game delivered exactly what we want from tabletop Warhammer: tension, memorable moments, and a proper post-battle glow.
From the conversation, we also got one more priceless detail from Wilini, who wanted to send the video to his brother because his wyvern was apparently mowing down elves after 20 years of passive XP gain from sitting on a shelf and collecting dust. That is an absolutely elite hobby image, and honestly one of the best things about this whole story.
Old model. Long break. Back on the table. Immediate violence.
Perfect.
Stas became a YouTuber
The second half of this little hobby story is maybe even better: Stas didn’t just win the game — he also made a video battle report.
In his own words, it was raw:
- recorded with an AirPods microphone,
- cut a bit unevenly in iMovie,
- rough around the edges.
But also, crucially: done.
And that matters a lot. We all know how many hobby ideas stay at the “maybe later” stage forever. A painted unit that still needs basing. A campaign idea sitting in notes. A battle report we mean to write up “when we have time.” This time, Stas actually made the thing, posted it, and shared it with us.
That deserves a lot of credit.
The reactions in the group were immediate and very much in the spirit of Wiatry Magii:
- End3r: congrats, nice one
- Michał: “sztos!”
- Wilini: great video, you have to post more
- and later End3r again: it was genuinely great to watch
So yes, the production may have been scrappy, but the result clearly worked. And honestly, battle reports often gain a lot from that homemade feeling. If the excitement is real, people will forgive a rough cut or imperfect audio very quickly.
The extra hobby side quest: AI dancing miniatures
Because no group chat can stay on one topic for too long, the conversation then drifted into experiments with AI-generated animation. Michał shared a clip, Stas observed that the models were dancing nicely, and suggested that maybe the model saw a drum and imagined some kind of parade with music.
That has absolutely nothing to do with winning the battle, but it has everything to do with modern hobby life: one minute we are celebrating a game result, the next we are wondering how to animate miniatures into a weird fantasy procession.
Very normal behavior.
Why we like posts like this
We’re filing this under battle-report, but really it is also a reminder of what keeps the hobby fun for us:
- getting a game in,
- enjoying the game enough to immediately talk about it,
- sharing a photo,
- making a video even if it’s rough,
- and having the rest of the group cheer it on.
That’s the good stuff.
So: congratulations again to Stas on the win, and also on becoming, by his own admission, a YouTuber. We fully support this development and expect more battlefield cinema in the future.
If a dusty wyvern really is back to farming elves after two decades off the table, then clearly we need sequels.