My plan was to do the battle with Zoom using 2 fixed big picture cameras & Chris & I each having a smartphone in hand for close ups. With Zoom the remote players can be using a big screen PC & can choose betWeen a multiple window screen, or pick one to be full screen. I thought this would help the remote players keep a handle on it. But we met a big snag. We got audio feed back with the multiple devices in the wargames room. There is a mute button in Zoom, but it muted all the devices in the room, or none of them. We tried to turn off the mikes on the devices, but that didn't seem to work eithwer. So we abandoned Zoom & used two WhatsApp links one for each side.








We still have technical issues to iron out with the video system - mainly to do with the sound rather than the video (the camera quality is really good). Using two WhatsApp links worked ok, but the remote players would really benefit from a bigger screen & more camera angles including a fixed point overall view. The players on the table would like to have a big screen at one end of the table with the moziac of all the remote players heads. These two items would make a much better connection between the players. We need to either find a way to get Zoom to do what we want, or find another App that will. The main problem with WhatsApp is that it doesn't provide video on a PC, so the remote players have at best a tablet sized pic. Can anyone point us to a better App for our purposes? Another problem is that the video sucks up the batteries - we have to remember to start with the devises fully charged.
Edit: I have found the way to disable the audio on smartphones & tablets, so maybe Zoom will work the way I want if all but one of the devices in the wargames room have their audio off.