What AARs do YOU want to see?

[rye8111]

I'm thinking about writing my first AAR soon and want to know what would be the most interesting to be. The AAR could be with or without a mod/mods, will be on at least H/H difficulty (depending on the proper balance of the mod), and I will endeavor to create it with proper grammar and spelling. Other than that, I'm pretty open to just about anything! Thanks in advance for the ideas.

[Ferdiad]

Taking over the world as the Mongols.

[PapaRosario]

Taking over the world as the rebels! Is that possible?

[Maklodes]

I was thinking of trying a "I was just defending myself!" campaign. I'm not sure if it would be a good AAR, but the self-imposed rules would be:

-No attacking rebel settlements, unless they actually rebelled against you. You can attack rebel field armies (brigands and the like). If they're just starting rebel settlements, like Florence or Valencia though, they're off limits.

-No starting wars with other factions. If they attack you, they're fair game.

-Crusades as a Catholic are not an excuse to attack another faction with which you're not at war, although if the Egyptians decide to start a stupid war by blockading one of your ports, or the excommunicated Milanese decide to randomly besiege you, by all means join or even request a crusade against Egyptian-held Jerusalem or Milan.)

-Ceasefire proposals should be proposed, and must be accepted if they include a reasonable indemnity. (Example: if they just blockade a port for a turn, then request a ceasefire, 500 florins might be reasonable. If they besiege, then conquer and sack, one of your cities, return of the city plus a significantly larger indemnity might be required. You shouldn't be like an early Civilization game democracy that will let an enemy sneak attack you, take a city, and then propose a peace which ratifies their occupation, which you're forced to accept by the senate.)

Although other than being weak early in the game thanks to not acquiring rebel settlements, this might not play out so differently than a regular game, given how backstabby the AI usually is. You'll probably end up conquering the world regardless.

Anyway, I was thinking of trying that, but if you want to try it, and it isn't an idea that's already been beaten to death, you could give it a shot. It might be a little boring at first, though.

[Ferdiad]

You can play as them but It's extremely broken.

[King William the Conqueror]

I would agree with Ferdiad. Conquer the world as the Mongols but PLEASE include pics!

[PrestigeX]

Play one of the mods that isn't S.S.

pick a faction that isn't pegged as a 'new faction'.

It would be nice to see an AAR that was made with perhaps.. Milan , France, Spain, or Poland.

[King William the Conqueror]

and play vanilla too! I personally don't like reading AARs from mods

[Ferdiad]

If SS is boring you just use one of It's many submods. That's the real strength of SS.

[Maklodes]

Or, on the other hand, maybe a different set of self-imposed rules: blood-death-berserker mode!

-Start wars with other factions ASAP: never accept any sort of peace. (Probably it'd be best not to be Catholic here.)

-Always execute all captured prisoners.

-Always exterminate all conquered cities. (Even Durazzo.)

-No ranged units! Charge into battle and tear the foe to pieces up close and personal.

[... where did it run?]

Or, on the other hand, maybe a different set of self-imposed rules: blood-death-berserker mode!

-Start wars with other factions ASAP: never accept any sort of peace. (Probably it'd be best not to be Catholic here.)

-Always execute all captured prisoners.

-Always exterminate all conquered cities. (Even Durazzo.)

-No ranged units! Charge into battle and tear the foe to pieces up close and personal.

With bunch of drunk danes or scots. CHARGE !!! that would be loltarted to do and fun to read/see.

[Exarch]

do a vanilla M2:TW as the HRE and try to expand the core territories to the extent of charlemagne's empire, then win the game by making everyone vassals

[napoleonic]

apocalypse AAR please, I want to see you fighting 100+ stacks of armies, whether they are mongols, timurids, papacy or even nazis I don't really care

[tudor93]

vanilla is boring dude (M2TW and RTW too), so a vanilla AAR would be also boring ... the only one who did a magnificent job making a vanilla AAR very interesting (although this was RTW vanilla) was Milo (I don't think you have his skill, no offence, but you said this will be your first AAR ). Make an AAR for a mod like SS (or pick whatever mod you like).

[Christonikos]

Do a character based AAR for 2 reasons.
1st character dies, AAR stops.
2nd we can see the in-game development of a war-hero (not having 10 stars by the end is considered failure) and we can explore in depth the character himself(feelings, emotions). You may want to write something like an autobiography.

Edit: Vanilla is just fine.

[Britannia's Finest]

I think Scottish King managed to pull off a Vanilla AAR...

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=448593

[rye8111]

I have to say, out of all of your great ideas, I really like the idea of a character point of view. Maybe pick a faction that many people want to see that has a family member about to come of age (what faction should that be?)! Also, because everyone knows the layout of the vanilla campaign, I was thinking that that was the best option. I'm going to say no Stainless Steel because many people have already done this for AARs, but if there is another out there that improves the AI and historical accuracy as well as the character trait system, then I am listening!

[complete noob:(]

I have to say, out of all of your great ideas, I really like the idea of a character point of view. Maybe pick a faction that many people want to see that has a family member about to come of age (what faction should that be?)!

In vanilla, Puccio Rossi comes along after like 10 turns (He is milanese)

[fredtrotter]

You should try the Expanded Americas mod, play as Spain/France/England and take one general and a bunch of soldiers to conquer all of the Americas for the crown!

[Christonikos]

You should try the Expanded Americas mod, play as Spain/France/England and take one general and a bunch of soldiers to conquer all of the Americas for the crown!

You could do the same with Age of Discovery mod.