First AAR I've read, and it was fantastic! Really loved all the detail and creativity. I'm now moving on to your RTW Numidia AAR. Always wanted to try them out, but never had the guts. Keep up the great work!
Side with the hawks - conquer the world for Scotland!
Side with the doves - restore the bedraggled nations of Europe.
First AAR I've read, and it was fantastic! Really loved all the detail and creativity. I'm now moving on to your RTW Numidia AAR. Always wanted to try them out, but never had the guts. Keep up the great work!
Wonderful work as usual. Your AAR's are the stuff of legends and what makes people like me originally sign up for these forums. Thanks for the entertaining read.
I just spend most of my night reading through all of the AAR and I am at a loss of words. That was one of the finest AARs I have ever read! The only thing I was disappointed with was your ruthlessness at the end. You had a chance to help.... to restore the kingdoms of Europe. You simply took out Spain without mercy, Sicily killed themselves, you justified your conquest of the Byzantines by saying they weren't worthy of the title, and you demolished your once great allies in the east, one of them without any reasoning. You became what you attempted to overthrow. Remember all the talk of how you would do your best to help the exiled Polish royals? BAH!!! Who needs Polish?!?! Remember the wise words of Lord Mayor Wallace? Well, regardless, even though you lost all sense of honor at the end, it was one of the greatest AARs ever and its legacy shall reign for millennia.............. + rep
I'd just like to point out that this AAR got me from Google to TWC, and I've been loving it ever since. +rep to the legendary Decimus Milo!
In the 17 months I've been on TWC, I've searched everywhere for good AAR's. If you're interested, please see my signature below for a fine selection of AAR's that I've really enjoyed.
G-Ballz, AAR Connoisseur
Great AARs in progress now:
Thokran Heaven's Descent, Cyprus Reborn
Radzeer The Wolf Among Dogs
Chirurgeon The Nascent Ranger: Book 2 [Skyrim]
Swaeft The Astray Apprentice [Skyrim]
My favorite finished AAR's:
Skantarios Pagan Vengeance
Thokran Letters of an Aragonese Knight
Love it so far!
The first AAR I read on this site when I first started lurking late last year. I decided to re-read it and spent the past few days doing so. Just as good the second time, though I wish some of the old images hadn't been lost. Ah well.
Definitely my favorite play-through along with A Scotsman in Egypt. Why is it always the Scottish ones?! Just so you know I posted this AAR in the Fanfic Recs section for Total War on TV Tropes.
Currently playing my own Scotland campaign emulating yours for the most part, with a few notable differences. For one thing I have been influencing the world subtly by calling crusades on whatever faction tends to be excommunicated at the moment. I never join them (except once when it looked like the mission would run out before it was taken, then I just took Bordeaux and gave it to England for fun). The main benefactors of these have been the Poles, Venetians, and Papal States. I also grew a bit tired of turtling and decided to pre-emptively take the rest of the British Isles from England in the mid-11th century, then making peace with them. I also decided to take Dublin and Canaervon by force when they were still rebel settlements so I would have a slightly stronger starting base. Right now it's around turn 200 in the late 11th century (same time settings as you) and I'm mostly keeping busy defending myself from the Danes and waiting for my extensive but no longer necessary continental spy network to die of old age so turns go by faster. I keep the fog of war on when going by turns just to cycle through them more quickly. The HRE, Milanese, Spanish, and French are all dead, while the Byzantines have been exiled to Cyprus for most of the game and Portugal is probably going to be wiped out soon by the English and the Pope. Thinking of calling a crusade in the Holy Lands for the first time soon, just to mess with Egypt. Fun, though the Danes are annoying. If there ever does come a time when I have to liberate the Old World, I intend to go for the "Dove" route instead of the one you chose, giving back lands to surviving nations... I think it would be nicer to end on a peaceful note.
What did you use to make the tactical war maps?
hobololgag1, welcome to the Writers' Study! Looking at Decimus Milo's profile, his last post on TWC was in 2012, so it seems unlikely that he'll answer (although you never know, sometimes great writers do re-appear).
The best place to ask questions, such as how to make tactical war maps for an AAR, is usually the Writers' Study Chat and Feedback thread in the Writers' Lounge. If you are considering writing an AAR - and if you have not written one before - you might want to look at an article on Writing a First AAR: Ten things you can do.
I know this thread is long dead, but I just want to say this is one of the best AARs i've ever seen. Not THE best (that honored distinction belongs to the one-of-a-kind Timurid Scientists AAR on the Europa Universalis II forum at Paradox Plaza; nothing will ever top that), but definitely a great one. I read the whole thread over the course of several hours. The only unfortunate thing is that half the screenshots are gone now, which is a common problem on older AARs, it seems. Pity that Decimus seems to have left this site for good. I really enjoyed the witty writing here, it really brings the AAR to life.