MAARC XXXVI - Nominations

[Robin de Bodemloze]

This is the submission/nomination thread for MAARC XXXVI.

Eligibility

- The nominated AAR must have at least two updates in March.

- The winner of the previous competition cannot compete in this current MAARC
- Only one AAR per person
- Nomination deadline: the last day of the month
- The competition is open for a month, followed by a one week, multi-poll vote.
- If there are less than 5 nominations, the competition is extended for another month.
- Usually authors nominate their own work. If you would like to nominate somebody else's work, please ask for the author's approval first (or encourage the author to nominate the AAR)!

Information to provide

- Title and link to the original AAR thread
- Author
- Game and (if applicable) mod
- Faction
- Short description / teaser

Advertisement Rules

Advertising is allowed in the official advertising board and in AAR threads. Any other kind of direct advertising to advocate nominees is prohibited. Those who breach this rule shall be disqualified for 3 months.

Asking for votes is not allowed and will result in an immediate disqualification and ban of 3 months from the Competition forums.

The competition manager will take whatever steps necessary to insure the integrity of the competition.

Awards

4 points for the Winner
3 points for Second Place
2 points for Third Place

Points are accumulated towards the awarding of the AAR Competition Medals.

Please see the Writer's Study Information and FAQ Thread for more details.

[Oxode]

Fortune Favours the Bold: A Carthage AAR

Author: Oxode (Me )
Game: Rome Total War
Difficulty: VH/VH
Mod: Roma Surrectum II
Faction: Carthage
Unit Size: Huge
Recruitment: Normal

Description: Many people don't know that dreams are a reality of their own, you can feel, see, taste, hear, and speak in a dream, yet people still think they are nothing but figments of imagination, Hannibal Barca, hero of Carthage is one of few people in History to completely understand that dreams, are as real as the world around you.

[Shankbot de Bodemloze]

Finally 2 updates

The Tales of a Kingdom



Shankbot12

M2TW SS 6.4

England

Volume1 : Follow the life of William Smith, as he accounts the 'happenings' during the early days of the Kingdom (COMPLETE)
Volume 2: Eustace the Bastard, son of Phillip Radcliife, Follow him during his life and see the world through his eyes (ONGOING)

[Supermoler]

Reserved just incase I don't win.

I might just do that as well

So do I.

edit: Nevermind. Good luck to all entrants!

[LuckyLewis]

I suppose we can give it a go:

The Hunter of Blunders

Title: The Hunter of Blunders - http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...php?p=11131643
Author: LuckyLewis
Game: TES: Skyrim
Short description: Following the exploits of a hapless hunter through the vast wilderness of Skyrim

[Schrödinger]

- Title and link : Restoring Rome
- Author : Schrödinger.
- Game : M2TW (SS 6.3)
- Faction : The Byzantine Empire
- Short description : A very Byzantine AAR following the internecine Komnenian plots, still in it's nascent stages but entering for it's first time, updating daily!

[Justinian Australis]

Title: The Last Pagan Emperor
Author: Justinian Australis
Game: RTW (IB:SAI)
Faction: Imperium Iuliani

Flavius Claudius Julianus has been appointed Caesar by his Emperor, Constantius II, as a pliant puppet that can be manipulated to do his bidding. However, he has made a grave mistake as Julianus has other ideas and sets about on his own path to the throne after a series of stunning victories against the barbarians. Acclaimed by his troops he battles the never ending hordes across the major rivers, desert tribes in Africa, rebellious Romans seeking to carve out their own kingdoms and those he thought he could trust...all in the name of been sole master of the greatest Empire in the world.

[Geoffrey of Villehardouin]

Times full of Distemper

- A dusty scriptorium –

A Historie of the severall parts of that war pursued by his Majesty king Charles I against Englandes Parliament

by John Locke Esq of Wrington, Somersetshire

Lawyer, Clerk and Agent for Alexander Popham Justice of the Peace
and a Captain in his Regiment of Horse during the War

- Author: Geoffrey of Villehardouin
- Faction: Parliament
- Description, game and mod: John Locke’s “historie”, is an AAR of the events of a Parliamentarian campaign using the For King or Country (FKoC) mod, a total conversion of M2TW that covers the period of the English Civil War (1642-1649).

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[MT2W FKoC AAR] Times full of Distemper
Reviewed by robinzx at the Critic's Quill, Issue 31

[Thokran]

Heaven's Descent, Cyprus Reborn: A Crusader AAR


Mod: Stainless Steel 6.1 / Sicilian Vespers 3.3
Faction: The Kingdom of Jerusalem / Kingdom of Cyprus
Campaign Difficulty: Very Hard / Hard
Battle Difficulty: Very Hard / Hard
Unit Size: Normal


The Holy Land. The Crusades. The History of these events are well-known as Christendom's attempt to reclaim the city of Jerusalem and its surrounding territories in the name of God. The Kingdom they established there was often known as the Kingdom of Heaven, and it stood for peace and prosperity, a place they believed to be home. Alas, that Kingdom was not meant to last. Or was it? Though the city has been long lost to the crusaders for years, their legacy still lives on generations afterwards through their descendants in the Kingdom of Cyprus.

For years, this small Kingdom has endured while others have fallen. Even now, as Islam seems to enjoy a resurgence of power through the expansionist regimes of the Mamluks, Timurids, and Ottomans, there are those who remain in Cyprus, determined to see the fabled Kingdom of Heaven restored.

But what price are these brave few willing to pay in order to attain a brighter future? What price are these crusaders willing to pay to be finally left at peace in land they can call their own? Come along to see the story of these brave few as they travel a world that has all but forgotten them in search of the path that will lead them to the peace and prosperity they so greatly desire.

[chaplain118]

The Kingdom of Ionia

Author: Chaplain118

Mod: RS2.1

Factions: Romans 1-turn

Short teaser:

It is remarkable that the Kingdom of Ionia had survived for as long as it did. A brief twenty years of violent and often times quite bloody history exists only in rumors and hearsay. Little archeological evidence supports the existence of such a kingdom. However, the presence of three newly unearthed coins inscribed with Rex S. Pap. Cra dating back to this period seem to suggest that at one point or another, something of this Kingdom of Ionia must have existed.

What we know, we know very little of. However, there exist several broken Greek documentations to an uncertain date around the first century BC to mid first century AD. It spoke of a campaign by several Roman excursions and the establishment of a 'faithless kingdom, full of corruption and lascivious decadence that even the gods grew distasteful of.' One individual in particular that has been mentioned multiple times had been the eponymous Decimus the Coward, more commonly referred to in these documentations as the Coward King.

It has been mentioned that Decimus the Coward King held the Kingship to this fragile kingdom for nearly seven years, with the first two years being held by his father, Numerius Sulpicius Camerinus, whom sources say very little about but the Greek documentations claimed to have carved out a series of kingdom across all of Ionia, from Assos to Ephesos. However, renewed attacks by Greeks soon shrank this kingdom to just the lands around Ephesos.

However, when we turned to Greece itself, we found certain documentations of the long-established family of power in Athens that spoke of one of their sons, Numerius Aebutius Drusus, who was sent to Ionia on a Pilgrimage in order to restitute familial obligations--typically an euphemism by the Romans to denote seeking forgiveness for sins. Based on these two scant pieces of evidence, we begin our intrepid attempt at deciphering the histories of this elusive Kingdom. It was a central portion of the Eastern world. Its presence amongst a number of religiously significant structures cannot be ignored. Yet despite these factors, this Kingdom remains unspoken of in academic circles.

The excavations performed around the Ionian coast, particularly near the Temple of Artemis, revealed a number of clues that further support the notion that this Kingdom of Ionia truly was a Holy Kingdom and that the wars fought in its brief existence were religiously based in nature. The Kingdom of Ionia, for all intents and purposes, found itself beleaguered on all sides, its back pressed against the Aegean, its front facing a porous border that the Greeks could simply pour through at a moment’s notice.

Excerpt from “Forgotten History of the Ionian Coast” by C. Krieger Ph.D and J. Connelly Ph.D