You know, that's exactly right. It is one thing to write a campaign walkthrough style AAR where the point is to show what you do and another thing to write a more fiction style one where you have all the power to add and omit for the benefit of the reader.
Meh, for now I've only hid things not involved with the main character so they come as a surprise lately and messed the order of the battle pics to get a more epic narrative. I'll see were I am at the end.
Certainly a negative character could at least be a rival or foil of the main character of an AAR. I'll have to try that sometime in my AAR. Pick a Roman, any Roman...
I'm slowly getting through Primus Inter Pares, but the way that Oslyabya has developed thus far has been interesting. I enjoy how the author has a crafted a story that uses the campaign, but is not stuck to following it.