Tactical Basics: Forward and Reverse Slopes is out for Patrons! (Patreon)

This one is a bit on the experimental side- I actually went outside. This brings some base-level technical challenges- I'm not recording on a PC using recording software, I'm standing on a hill with an old mobile phone that is probably not the best way to film. Especially on a windy day.

So my concern is that the real world footage is a bit shaky. The stabilisation feature I tried to tidy it up with mainly seemed to just zoom in and rotate the footage in weird ways so... more experimentation needed! There is equipment out there that can make it easier, but I want to make sure the whole concept is viable before splashing out.

Somewhat amazingly, I couldn't find any videos on Youtube where someone explaining about forward and reverse slopes by actually showing what it looks like to stand on one- it's diagrams all the way down, so even if it's not perfect it is at least filling a niche.

In other news, I am almost done with Operation Whetstone Mission 3. It's worked out at about half an hour, so having done Not One Step Back at 40 minutes with only a tiny break in between them to make this basics video I'm really looking forward to having a little break from CM and working on the next War Room episode!

We may be heading back to the Peninsular War for some classic 'Wellington on a reverse slope' action- that would tie nicely into the Basics video- but I'm still 50/50 on doing the Battle of Ferrybridge. That's a medieval battle from the Wars of the Roses- the issue with that period in general is patchy sources and a reliance on 'inherent military probability' which... is interesting, but boils down to "the solution of an obscurity by an estimate of what a trained soldier would have done in the circumstances". Which is fun and interesting but... means coming up with plausible reasoning that goes one step forward that the reported facts.