XIII MAARC - Nominations

[Hesus de bodemloze]

Nominate AARs for Augusts contest.


The nominated AAR must have at least 2 updates in August.

Give the following info:


Title (as link)


Game: RTW / M2TW / ETW


Mod:

[tuore]

Crossing the Great Divide

Game: Medieval II
Mod: Stainless Steel 6.1
Difficulty: VH/VH
Description: Aragonese king conquers the world - but there is a secret he doesn't know. But someone else knows...

Teaser:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

"I can now take all the money AND explode the bomb. Jericho will get a pack of cigarettes i found from Burke. This is the way it goes... MWHAHHHAAA! Bye bye Megaton..."



Megaton is no more.

"Hahhaaa! It has blown up!" i said.
"Sir, beware the shock wave!" Jericho said.
"What? Ohhh.... ungghhh! It is heavier than i thought!"
"Sir, don't fall of the balcony!" shouted Jericho
"No! The shockwave... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

And he fell into darkness.

One thousand and 200 years before...





"I am king Sancho. Crown of Aragon is my empire. We are surrounded by rebels, but our plan is to drive them off quickly and secure our holdings in the Iberian Peninsula.




Half year later, Sancho was approached by a messenger who brought a message from the council.
"Send emissary to Leon and Castille".
"Messenger! Tell your lord that I, king Sancho of Aragon, shall send my best diplomat to negotiate."
This was done. One year later we had a military alliance and trade rights with the Leon-Castilian kingdom. They can prove an unbeatable help as a shield who protects us from the Moors. Meanwhile, we can take the rebel cities and make sure we are secured if France attacks.

Sancho got a message from the middle east: The mighty empires of Seljuks and Egyptians have unified against the possible infidels. They are allied.
"They can become a problem later, if they get Kwarezmian Empire to their alliance. Then we are doomed, as no christian man can then enter the holy lands. We must free them soon."
Our first military operation was to strike Pamplona, which is an important castle just at the border of France.

[AnthoniusII]

The Last Hope

AAR in detail...
Game:M2TW
Mod:Stainless Steel 6.1.
Submods:Basileia ton Romaion,Master Zumas Stone forts for SS 6.1,Agart's new castles v1.0,Argent User's Real horses v1.0.
Campaign:Late.
Dificulty:Hard/Hard.

Teaser:

The strugle of The medeival Roman empire to survive and regain it's glory
of the past...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Imperial Eagle]

The Illyrian Empire

Rome : Total War

Various Mods

Join a young Illyrian in his life of treachery, danger, and the adventure of a lifetime.... Chapter 6 Coming soon!!

[Lysimachos]

The Legacy of Megas Alexandros

Europa Barbarorum 1.1 for RTW
Arche Seleukeia (Seleucid Empire)
Medium/Medium

Description: The Legacy of Megas Alexandros is the saga of the kin of Seleukos Nikator, companion of Alexander the Great. Read about glory and humiliation, loyalty and betrayal, love and hatred, between the kings and those close to them.

In the August updates you will experience the empire in a fragile position: While Antiochos Theos is fighting to reach eternal glory, his son struggles for his bare existance.

Teaser:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Led by a rugged, dusty track half a dozen men ride toward their destiny. As rugged is the surrounding landscape, rough hills covered by meagre grass and poorly grown bushes.
The horses are lean and weak and so are the men on their backs, wrapped in dirty coats, bearing the history of their travel in matted hair and written in dark rings around their eyes.
"Off the road! Quick!" barks the man at the front, turning his horse to the side, off the pitiful path and into the barren land, where the other horsemen unhesitatingly follow.

[Heartfire]

The Center of Conflict 2: Renaissance of a Fallen Empire

Empire: Total War

DarthMod 2.6
Regalia of Nations

A mysterious book found after an explosion leads a young Austrian boy to discover the story behind his greatest ancestor.

[Seleucid king]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=277581

The Orange Occupation
Author: Obadiah Hakeswill

Game: Empire: Total War

Mod: No

A Dutch Soldier is fighting to keep his Nation alive....His Nation seems to be doing fine, though. Regardless, This AAR is updated almost daily, AND has at least 5 pics in every update(except one).

Teaser:
Part 1: The 1st Regiment of Militia

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Many years ago I joined into the first regiment of militia. I was a young man, and looking to make a living. We’d trained most of the time and slept in our gutters: most of us had nowhere to live, we’d joined the militia for housing, but we’d had no such luck. Still, it passed the time and we were getting income. A fair number of us, I included, kept to stealing anyway: we’d keep the money for bribing officers to be favourable (though we soon learned that our meagre wealth wasn’t enough for them to so much as give a hopeful glance).
Then came the day when the Stadtholder sent out the news that the Spanish navy had raided our trade routes in the Indian Ocean. We all knew the Spanish navy did not even nearly reach as far, but the government were desperate for an excuse to take back Belgium. They ordered all regiments, including militia, to march south. And so, early in the Summer of 1700, we marched south into Belgium. And we marched on. And on. And on.
And finally, at least three months later, we found ourselves outside Brussels. Our tiny army didn’t come close to being able to surround the city, but that didn’t matter, because the Spaniards would refuse to sacrifice their cavalry in mere raids.
It was August when they finally decided to attack. We were ready for them and our pike regiment was the first to charge. Our provincial cavalry then charged into what was now the flank of the buckled enemy line. Our line infantry pressed farther. And then it was our turn. I couldn’t bring myself to move. Who was it I was going to kill? Would I survive to kill anyone in the first place? How would I survive? I forced myself to march with everyone else. Our regimental sergeant major turned and looked at me, a concerned look on his face.
“This your first, son?”
“Yes.” I replied hesitantly.
“It was mine only a year ago, a small attack on a bandit camp.” I suddenly saw he himself seemed unsettled by the battle. “In fact, that was my only battle until today. What I recommend is this: try and stay to the back and watch the other soldiers do the fighting.”
“Yes. Thank you.”
And so I was in the rearmost rank of our unit when the rout began. First it was the armed citizens, then the pikemen and cavalry followed suit as their numbers disintegrated around them.

[ALZU]

TIMURID APOCALYPSE
A danish survival AAR

Author:ALZU
Game:M2TW
Mod: no

Description: Inspired on Dunecat´s AAR "my retaking europe from the timmys", the world has changed. 500 hundred years of war and change, with only a few remaining factions fighting a world war. You will follow the struggle for survival of the european remaining nations and how all must unite when it seems the end is nigh.

[ALZU]

My retaking europe from the Timmys

Author: Dunecat
Game: M2TW
Mod: no

Description: The first of its kind, an AAR where Novgorod is located in America and will fight a world war against the Timurids, who now control all the world. Many different strategies applied to defeat the unstoppable Timurid war machine.


note: i just felt like i had to nominate the AAR that inspired me :P

[SonOfAlexander]

The Epic of Caelvs Morsvs Lvminivs
A tale of revenge and anger, empires and vision

Mod/Faction: N/A

The Story:

Caelus has come a long way, from the tragedy of his parents' brutal murders at the hands of raiding Gauls at the age of 8 to having conquered much of Britannia. The Roman who ran at the Battle of Lake Bigorritis is now in charge of the most disciplined and revolutionary army ever to walk the face of this planet. But a well placed spanner is about to be shoved in the works.

Caelus will face rebellion, betrayal and many more perils as he battles to conquer Britannia and expand his Empire. And as he races to smash tribal armies and win over the peoples of the tin islands, the Lord of the Islanders, Ri Inse Ghall, must prepare for the meeting of ambassadors from the Empires of Rome and Carthage. Cities will tremble at the confluence of might that takes place at these talks...

And all the while a young rogue named Hannibal Barca rampages along the East Coast of Iberia, with ludicrous rumours of a trip even further North...

[Latest update]

[ALZU]

The survival of Catalunya
Author: Beer Money
Mod: Chivalry II - Sicilian Vespers 3.3.
Faction: Catalonia/Barcelona
Era: Late, Dark Ages
Difficulty: VH/H

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=274231

[Seleucid king]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...=283611&page=4
A Murder of Crows: A Bean Sidhe AAR

Game: Rome: Total War

Mod: Amazon: Total War v3.0

Subrosa Florens takes us into another of his (I think he's a boy, he never said)great A:TW AAR's, such as his "Daughters of the Dragon" ATW AAR.

[Lysimachus]

Title: Alexander Reborn (link in my signature)


Game: RTW


Mod: Rome Total Realism 6.3

[cupoftea]

Claudius: from a weakling a warrior is born. link is in sig.


RTW


RS/Eb

People said i had to join the competition so here i am

My AAR just tells about a young boy (Claudius) who's life gets turned upsidedowneverywhere. Join him on his epic journey.

[Junius]

A Medieval 2: Total War AAR, using Stainless Steel 6.1 and following the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Things in the Kingdom are heating up. After all the planning and conspiracy of King Jean and his lords, war is about to break in the Middle East. The Kingdom's great army is ready to march out to capture Damascus, but can the untested Prince Alphonse win glory and fame, or will the ambition of his father prove the undoing of the precariously situated kingdom?

[Antiochos VII Sidetes]

Ultimus Romanorum

Mod: Ruins of Glory

Game: RTW-BI


Join Syagrius, Military Master and Duke of All Gaul, in his quest to hold back the dark tides of barbarism and destruction. Watch as Flavius Nevitta, reluctant warrior, climbs the ranks of the Roman army almost accidentally. Observe as a scion of a long-dead Empire rises from the dust of history to once more influence the flow of events...

Teaser:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Syagrius's mind kicked itself out of a dull, automatic stupor brought on by nigh on two hours of bloody conflict. Could it be? The Rhenus legions were returning?

His optimism was crushed as he saw the state of the warriors trudging towards him. They'd be of no use whatsoever...

His line was bent into a backwards V; the cavalry were almost completely annihilated by the action of repeatedly assailing the mass of enemies along the battle-line. The men's bones ached, their weapons broke, their javelins spent.

The Military Master of Gaul drew his blade, dismounted his horse, grabbed a discarded shield from the ground, and strode forward to join his men.

********

Nevitta could barely raise his sword-arm, could barely lift his shield. Yet he must; a thrown spear embedded within the throat of the man to his right reinforced this need.

The reluctant warrior brought out his arms and felt adrenaline flow through him, an energy borne of desperation.

He charged forward with the rest of his line, even outdistancing it by a few feet.

The first barbarian was taken in the chest by his sharpened thrusting sword; the second pierced through the throat by the same. Nevitta reveled in his newfound martial prowess, slaying man after man. The Devil take cowardice! Forget caution! Flavius Nevitta was a god among men, a brilliant shining warrior girded in the armor of invincibility!

His thoughts were put off by the spear thrust through his thigh by a wiry Burgundian.

Nevitta fell to the ground, screaming in pain. The Burgundian strode over to him, spear raised; then, a throwing-spear appeared through his chest. Nevitta, lucid despite the pain, wondered how a thrown spear from the enemy's side could have struck down his foe...

[Solid Snake]

I can still join this right?

The Proud Blood of Germania

Game: Vanilla RTW
Faction: Germania
Difficulty: I still dont remember if it was VH/VH or H/H

Life goes on, the King has died and Ariogaisus has rose as new High King of Germania, his first challenge was to battle the King of the Gaul Tribes. He has suceeded, now he prepares to launch a full scale invasion into Gaul.....
But disaster strikes, the Britons, coming from across the sea had invaded Germania´s soil. Trier is under siege. Can Etelgis come to its aid before its too late?
On the other fronts Vannius son of the King has known love and took a bride of his own, but now what he did on months past will come back to bite him as a Roman embassy prepares to pay him a visit.
Follow the journey of all these and more characters, get in the intrigue, the politics and the battles of the Germanics......whether in victory or defeat.

(latest update)

[webMaster412160]

In the footsteps of the great Belisarius. A Byzantine AAR.

Game:M2TW Kingdoms

Difficulty:hard/hard
unit scale:Normal
battle time limit:Yes
Player Manages All Settlements:Off
faction:The Byzantine Empire
Cheats:No