Semper Fi Syria Mission 8: Hims my Brother is out for Patrons! (Patreon)

This one was loads of fun. You'll see why, but I really enjoyed it!

As a bonus, it was also pretty quick to edit, being only 23 turns long and the action only taking up maybe a dozen turns.

The final turn did get a bit weird though. You can play back the last turn in a game, after the end screen pops up, but the game doesn't play all the sounds- especially engine and background noises. So I had to improvise a bit to get them in- I don't think you can see the joins!

Also with regards to sound, I've used a slightly different voice recording setup for this one. I think the quality is a bit better... the audio definitely needed less editing, which shaves off even more time.

With that out of the way pretty quickly, I've ploughed straight on into the next Unit Guide and, after some deliberation, plumped for the Italian Infantry Battalion out of CMFI. And boy oh boy, it is by a significant margin the worst TOE I've gone through so far. Literally decades behind everyone else. But it provides a really interesting comparision to other infantry battalions by showing off all the things that make them work that we've grown to think as standard.

The script is pretty much done- just needs checking- then we're into the record-cut-footage pipeline.

In other news, the process to switch over to monthly billing instead of per creation billing has kicked off. This shouldn't represent a significant change: I've been reliably releasing one video per week for ages now, so switching to monthly billing means changing from 4x£1 to 1x£4. Nice and simple.

I am planning to slot in tiers on either side of this too, once the change goes through. I definitely want a lower option for people to contribute if £4/month is too much (though whatever limits you might set should still apply) and a slightly higher tier for monthly bonus videos to live. I'll go into all this in more detail once the details are nailed down, but like I said: it shouldn't result in a meaningful change at your end.

So, with CMUG: Italian Infantry Battalions well down the production line, next on the horizon we have more Marines- now with backup from the US Army- and after that more CM Basics, for which I have as yet no idea what to do. Fun times!