Re: Immersion: History and Bending It - Charlemagne
Welcome to TWC and to the Writers' Study! I enjoy the connections (and contrasts) between events in Total War games and real history too. Like Caillagh, I'd like to know more about your nation, it foes and its strategies.
It sounds like you're worried about people being bored. You could think about what interests you in your campaign, and write an AAR which has those features. For example, you could focus on the links to real historical characters and events, and the strategic choices your characters face, if that's what interests you the most. An AAR doesn't need to comment on every battle or every turn with the same level of detail. Like a film director, an AAR writer can speed up and slow down time - you could spend several chapters covering an important battle (or a single day, week or month) in detail and then tell the story of the next 20 turns of the campaign in a single paragraph, if that works for the AAR you want to create.