Getcher nominations in for AAR of the year!
Tentative rule: must have at least 5 updates/episodes/posts in the year for which it is nominated
What do you guys think?
on this site or from anywhere?
@Brant
Yes, I think there has to be some continuity. 5 posts/updates is fair, and not a very high bar to pass. I'll contradict myself now: Does it really matter if there are only say 3 or 4 updates if the AAR is outstanding?
FWIW, I've only read a few AAR's so far this year, so my opinion is based on very limited experience.
One of my favourites is the Barbarossa one between Barthheart and Jason Pratt. Both threads are very well written, with a good sense of humour. So far both are highly entertaining in my opinion. O0
Quote from: undercovergeek on February 11, 2016, 04:41:08 PMon this site or from anywhere?
there are other sites? ;)
nah, bring them in from wherever. Ours are the best and are going to win anyway O:-)
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 11, 2016, 05:53:23 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on February 11, 2016, 04:41:08 PMon this site or from anywhere?
there are other sites? ;)
nah, bring them in from wherever. Ours are the best and are going to win anyway O:-)
absolutely - just wondered, there are some awesome paradox ones
I am going to preemptively nominate Airborne Rifles for his CMANO AARs.
Quote from: mirth on February 11, 2016, 06:03:51 PM
I am going to preemptively nominate Airborne Rifles for his CMANO AARs.
Many thanks. Another one is in the works.
Hurry it up! :P
I will second AR's CMANO AAR's. KyzBP and 'geek's WitPAE AAR is good, too.
Wait, will there be two categories, one for digital AARs and one for tabletop AARs?
Quote from: bbmike on February 11, 2016, 08:45:10 PM
Wait, will there be two categories, one for digital AARs and one for tabletop AARs?
nope
Oh hell. This was my idea and now I'm torn between the AAR's already mentioned here. But I gotta stick with my original pick, the WitP AE AAR of Geek and KyzBP. It's not only entertaining but informative and they've both been great at answering dumb questions asked by us. It takes so long to play this game that it could also qualify as last year's and next year's AAR too. O0
KyzBP's is the most engaging for me.
My criteria is engagement, ease of reading, frequency updates.
We have an entire year to fight about this, right?
Quote from: mirth on February 11, 2016, 11:51:33 PM
We have an entire year to fight about this, right?
yes, including ones that haven't been written yet - so you don't need to decide today.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 12, 2016, 06:28:55 AM
Quote from: mirth on February 11, 2016, 11:51:33 PM
We have an entire year to fight about this, right?
yes, including ones that haven't been written yet - so you don't need to decide today.
Maybe I'll find something to write about then.
Quote from: MetalDog on February 12, 2016, 11:24:24 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 12, 2016, 06:28:55 AM
Quote from: mirth on February 11, 2016, 11:51:33 PM
We have an entire year to fight about this, right?
yes, including ones that haven't been written yet - so you don't need to decide today.
Maybe I'll find something to write about then.
Not MTG and not some stupid baseball thing :P
If I could figure out how to combine the two, I would. You betcha!
Quote from: MetalDog on February 12, 2016, 11:47:16 AM
If I could figure out how to combine the two, I would. You betcha!
Magic: The Boring
This from a guy who replays centuries old battles with little men, following the same paths to victory or not as the generals who fought them to begin with. Why not just read a history book to see how that worked out?
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Quote from: MetalDog on February 12, 2016, 12:13:17 PM
This from a guy who replays centuries old battles with little men, following the same paths to victory or not as the generals who fought them to begin with. Why not just read a history book to see how that worked out?
I was able to completely screw up the Battle of Chickamauga last weekend and produce a wildly ahistorical result with my little men.
Quote from: mirth on February 12, 2016, 12:29:44 PM
Quote from: MetalDog on February 12, 2016, 12:13:17 PM
This from a guy who replays centuries old battles with little men, following the same paths to victory or not as the generals who fought them to begin with. Why not just read a history book to see how that worked out?
I was able to completely screw up the Battle of Chickamauga last weekend and produce a wildly ahistorical result with my little men.
What was the result? A cannon that fired five times historically actually fired four?
Shouldn't you be glued to ESPN waiting for pitchers and catchers to report?
Six more days, my friend. Six more days.
Quote from: MetalDog on February 12, 2016, 12:51:41 PM
Six more days, my friend. Six more days.
Yes, but you could be missing important news. Sabbathia might have a sniffle or something.
Excellent! Niggling details for us both!
Quote from: MetalDog on February 12, 2016, 11:24:24 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 12, 2016, 06:28:55 AM
Quote from: mirth on February 11, 2016, 11:51:33 PM
We have an entire year to fight about this, right?
yes, including ones that haven't been written yet - so you don't need to decide today.
Maybe I'll find something to write about then.
You've been spying on mirth and Star... that ought to be good for a "Sissy Slappy-Fight" AAR... ;D
I'll have to get someone else to write it for me. What I've seen can't be unseen.
Quote from: MetalDog on February 12, 2016, 05:03:28 PM
I'll have to get someone else to write it for me. What I've seen can't be unseen.
We could do a video AAR.
Working title - Magic: The Sexening
Quote from: mirth on February 12, 2016, 06:12:52 PM
Quote from: MetalDog on February 12, 2016, 05:03:28 PM
I'll have to get someone else to write it for me. What I've seen can't be unseen.
We could do a video AAR.
Quote from: mirth on February 12, 2016, 06:17:33 PM
Working title - Magic: The Sexening
And subject EVERYONE to the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name?!
I'm not taking responsibility for unleashing THAT on mankind!!
If you guys want action, I could always post the transcript of my last divorce. Damn that woman has a great lawyer. Before we were threw, I wished I had married him instead. :'(
Quote from: Sir Slash on February 12, 2016, 11:16:24 PM
If you guys want action, I could always post the transcript of my last divorce. Damn that woman has a great lawyer. Before we were threw, I wished I had married him instead. :'(
We've led parallel lives.
That should scare the shit out of one of us.
Quote from: mirth on February 11, 2016, 11:51:33 PM
We have an entire year to fight about this, right?
Also, this is only the nomination phase. Not the voting phase.
Also, I have a MTG AAR for an illegal version of MTG, featuring a sorceress and her red wienies. Here on Grogheads! O0 (But not applicable since that was last year. Unless I start it up again for 5 posts worth this year. ;) )
Also, I nominate Banzai_Cat's Pool of Radiance AAR (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=14588.0); and Con (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=13096.0) vs. Geek's (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=13090.0) mutually self-destructive "Rolling on the River" Combat Mission Black Sea AAR. Sadly, ineligible. :'( Although BC might re-elige his.
So since my first two nominations aren't eligible (or one of them at the moment isn't), allow me to nominate Hofstadter's Hitler's Last Gamble (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=15945.0), for ComOps1's Battles from the Bulge, and Crossroad's "West Bank Crossroads" DAR vs Berto (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=15700.0) for Campaign Series Middle East.
My Pool of Radiance AAR is one I want to get back to. I just haven't had the time. Also the FCN AAR. Probably won't finish up the Ottoman Sunset one, unfortunately.
Brant - I haven't done an update for the BofF one I was doing. I assume since you're not asking you don't need it any longer? ;)
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on February 15, 2016, 08:14:41 PMBrant - I haven't done an update for the BofF one I was doing. I assume since you're not asking you don't need it any longer? ;)
I would've liked to see it thru, but if you aren't feeling it, don't force it.
I'm nominating B_C , pool of radiance AAR , love it :smitten: O0
Topic: REALLY OUT TO GET ME, TOO! -- JRP vs Bartheart on Twilight Struggle PC (DONE)
For a couple of reasons. First, it inspired me to buy the game.
Second, it was fun.
Third - my wife says "vote no" because I bought another game.
I should go read that again: I have literally forgotten who won that game! :crazy2: :uglystupid2:
Quote from: JasonPratt on November 26, 2016, 03:20:11 PM
I should go read that again: I have literally forgotten who won that game! :crazy2: :uglystupid2:
That's because I won. :bd:
I HAVE BLOCKED THAT EXPERIENCE FROM MY MEMORY! --
...um, I mean, the game dealt me a toxic hand from which I could never afterward recover.
(And also I tunnel-visioned on Canada like an imbecile; although in the end, even if I had put all those points in West Germ like I should have, I don't know that I could have triggered a Euro autowin in time.So really, I tunnel-visioned too hard on a European autowin. And also on Canada.)
I think a rematch would be great AAR reading. \m/
Well, he also beat me at Barbarossa, so I can't exactly ask for the best two out of three... O:-)
If I ever get a chance to figure out the game perhaps we can have a go someday.
O0
Anytime Jason.... :cowboy:
I thought Gstockbridge's AAR covering the British 6th Airborne's landing 'East of the Orne' from Panzer Battles - Normandy was one of the prettiest and well laid out reports I had seen for quite awhile.
He did it completely in Powerpoint and included a heap of additional information including the actual history and his opponents commentary interspersed throughout the action. Add the period photos and it is a very engaging read.
http://www.theblitz.org/message_boards/showthread.php?tid=70064 to see the whole report laid out...
David
Nomination for Crossroad's CSME DAR - CS Middle East: The Crossroads (West Bank, 5 June 1967) -- DAR vs Berto --
And one for Tripoli's SaI AAR - World War I in the North Sea-A Steam and Iron Campaign Game AAR
I'll second both of those and add my personal fav. Airborne Rifles excellent Northern Fury: Changing of the Guard. :bd:
Quote from: Strela on December 20, 2016, 02:41:56 AM
I thought Gstockbridge's AAR covering the British 6th Airborne's landing 'East of the Orne' from Panzer Battles - Normandy was one of the prettiest and well laid out reports I had seen for quite awhile.
He did it completely in Powerpoint and included a heap of additional information including the actual history and his opponents commentary interspersed throughout the action. Add the period photos and it is a very engaging read.
http://www.theblitz.org/message_boards/showthread.php?tid=70064 to see the whole report laid out...
David
That's a helluva AAR.
An interesting presentation. I'd tried to figure a way to do AAR playthroughs in Storyline 2 but there's no way to host the files that I'm aware of. Still, that's food for future thought.
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