A suggestion for AARs

[Caligula Caesar]

I have a suggestion. It is the following: AARs are a great way to win over people to play your mod. I recall reading a RS one titled "The Pontic Expedition" by Austin Bin, and it was brilliant. I decided to give RS a go after that, and found it quite enjoyable Anyway, the RTR AARs in our subforum are only being read by a select few RTR fans. I would suggest that we somehow link it to the AAR forum so that more people read them.

[Caligula Caesar]

Does this lack of answers mean something is being done? If not, I'll post a link to the FOE AAR section and ask for it to be stickied

[roam]

someone gonna tell me what aar actaully stands for?

[Caligula Caesar]

After Action Report - basically a story based on your campaign

[Pat89]

I have a suggestion. It is the following: AARs are a great way to win over people to play your mod. I recall reading a RS one titled "The Pontic Expedition" by Austin Bin, and it was brilliant. I decided to give RS a go after that, and found it quite enjoyable Anyway, the RTR AARs in our subforum are only being read by a select few RTR fans. I would suggest that we somehow link it to the AAR forum so that more people read them.

Actually... At some stage all RTR AARs were moved to the central AAR location. But we decided we wanted them back in our own place since there were almost no (if any at all) RTR AARs being started or updated.

So if you want a link from that central place to all mod forums, then I think that's more a thing to suggest to TWC than to us. (If you manage to get a link from there to our forum here, then that surely would be very cool though )

[Clearchus of Sparta]

In order to whet your appetite for FOE, we actually recruited some AAR writers so that they could give a preview of FOE. They can be found in the AAR thread, though not all were sucessfully completed due to updates making the game not save game compatable

[Caligula Caesar]

My point is the fact that people from other mods won't see our AAR thread. How would I go about suggesting it to TWC?

[Pat89]

I don't know... Though I think PowerWizard (sp?) is involved in all AAR related things...

[Caligula Caesar]

I contacted a moderator and...

For this proposal you will need to talk with RTR mod leader/s and then they need to ask administrators for that. I would like to help you but it's not in my power.

lol

[Pat89]

lol

Ok, I'll point Tony to this then
(He's our "comms dude", I'm merely a "comms dude deputy" )

[Tony83]

An interesting notion CC. However, as Pat has rightly pointed out, due to a breakdown in comminication, our original AAR forum was moved and merged with all the others without our consultation. However, as we didn't want to reject the initiative out of hand, we let it ride to see what would happen. The upshot was that most of the then current RTR based AAR's died out and a month after being moved I recall having to go down to page 4 to find the first of what few remained.

We relaunched our own AAR just before FOE was released and invited some guest writers to write reports based on a late version of the beta and also stated that other could use the area to spotlight their own RTR stories should they wish. We have no intention of moving again but a link may well be of interest, but does the central AAR area get all that much traffic? When I last looked there were only half a dozen people logged into it!

[Dog Fart]

I suggest staying in this forum. That other one is kinda creepy.

[Caligula Caesar]

A certain AAR has 23,474 views since April 08. Others have multiple thousand views. I think that answers the question

[Finn]

Only a few AAR's get that kind of views. Most are in the 1000's and hundreds.

As Tony mentioned, the RTR AAR community died a quick death with the move to to a central location.

You can also have your AAR moved to the Writers Study by a mod.

[Caligula Caesar]

Well, at least you find out if it's good or not

[Muizer]

AAR's can be really fun. That's what I recall from the Paradox forums anyway. The TW AAR's I've read tend to have too many pics for my tastes. As a dev I wonder what we can do to make the mod itself more attractive to write AAR's about. Because if it's good material to write fiction about that means it's a good game to role-play in. And I think that's ultimately what we want. I wonder if there's a way to get players involved with this. That would be good.

[Pat89]

AAR's can be really fun. That's what I recall from the Paradox forums anyway. The TW AAR's I've read tend to have too many pics for my tastes.

Personally I like many pics more than lots of long texts. Especially if it are mostly campaign pics

[Caligula Caesar]

Well, FOE has the makings of a good AAR mod. The war in Sicily is epic, and all the campaigns are/look (I haven't played them all) good. FOE2 will be even better, I expect. I think the main problem is that people see "AARs" and don't know what it means, so they ignore it. That's what I did, anyway. Perhaps it should be the creative writing section or something.

[Alavaria]

EDIT: Wow thanks TWC, delete this please.

I though I had lost the whole post, seems it got posted instead. And I wrote it out twice.

[Alavaria]

Well, you can try to have your own subsection (Chiv does). If you don't want to get your own sub-forum for that, you can try and find people who do their AARs in a manner involving constantly feeding in updates. There are other advantages to that over huge updates as well ...

Personally I like many pics more than lots of long texts. Especially if it are mostly campaign pics

Yep, many pictures of people being shot at with arrows and bullets.

And body-draped landscapes. Each scutum stuck on its end in the wet red ground another small tombstone heralding the end of the Roman way.

"What do you mean, defeated?" The senator was pale with rage ... or was it fear? "Some stone chucking louts could not handle a wolf, let alone ... our glorious army ..."

The runner ignored the distinction between cast metal bullets and stones. "To the man."

"This is an insult to the Gods! Insolent uncivilized drunkards, they couldn't have. There must have been some aid, collusion - the Carthaginians, the Macedonians - no true Roman could be defeated in such a humiliating manner. The Republic will not be defeated in such a humiliating manner!"

The messenger's stoic attitude was in sharp contrast to the uproar among the gathered senators. "There are only those Celts, according to our best scouts. There are at least two, if not three or four for every single soldier we have ready to take up Rome's defense."

"Valor is superior to numbers-"

"And one more thing ..."

"What is it?"

"They've torn up our northward highways for ammunition."

...

"By Jupiter, we're all dead"

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