Which AAR, when I decide to write it?

[Heskey]

Hey guys,

I was in the mindset of running my England turtle campaign, just keeping hold of Caen, and taking over the British Isles, micromanaging the place and sending large armies out on foreign ventures or crusades without actually striving for further 'conquest'.

But someone mentioned a day or two ago, an idea that I found quite fascinating, and would be interesting to play and write about as it's unconventional to the ordinary playstyle of Total War (but not outside the boundaries of the games capabilities).

A viking AAR, playing as Norway and taking over Scandanavia, probably kill off Denmark and use the fortress south of Denmark (forgot the name) as the 'doorway' into Norway to stop invasions from Europe (unless they come by sea!)

Once I had this 'island' (as far as the game-map is concerned), I could do one of two things:

1.) Take over Ireland, and use it as a base from which to take over Britain... Or something more interesting to me which ensures I keep my settlement numbers low:
2.) Invade whatever, and whoever; sack their settlements and demolish all their buildings before upping and leaving. A real 'scortched earth' campaign. Obviously, there's gonna be a hell of a lot of rebels roaming around.

What do you chaps think? I know nothing of Norweigan history, and to my knowledge the 'viking age' of raiding and pillaging was quickly coming to a close around 1100; so on some levels I wouldn't be as picky or accurate as an England campaign, but at least it'd be something different?

What do you think?

[For England Men]

england it would be interesting to see what someone else does as I am on turn 55 of a similiar thing I have got british isles , caen, brittany and bruges and cairo. gotta have a crusade in there for fun to play factor.

[Chyeaaaa111]

Well someone challenged me to write an AAR, and I think its a great idea. You should have at it too.

Since the Mongols are truly a formidable force now, you should take any faction west of Constantinople, and conquer the western half of the map. Then have a showdown with the Mongols in a bloody apocolyptic battle to the end of mankind

[Beowulf1990]

It has to be the Norwegians, much more more you can do with them i feel.
Although i would put my vote on option 2, i played a game like that once, most fun i've had with the game in ages! Pretty much at war with half of Europe, but they couldn't do a damn thing about it as long as i ruled the seas and the 'gateway' to denmark.

Just get in, capture, sack/exterminate, get out. I decided which empires lived and which falled.
I went out of my way to help the more minor powers that usually don't get very far. For instance i helped Aragon win it's xwar against France by sacking their northern cities and destroying armies. They ended up in Rennes!