Barbarossa82's Armenian AAR

[Barbarossa82]

How do you make those pictures so small, and then when you click on them they become larger? I want to do that with my screenshots of my victories!

ImageShack will handle all that for you. Personally I use the imageShack toolbar which will allow you to upload multiple images at one time and get the thumbnail code for each of them. You can cut and paste that code right into the forum.

I apologise for any misspellings, inconsistencies, inappropriateness etc. in the current installment. this is due to:
1) I am very, very, very drunk right now.
2) New girlfriend
Hope you all forgive any mistakes etc.!!

Chapter 13: The Doom of the Seleucids

As promised, one extremely cool battle coming up!

Part 1: Petra I......Part 2: Petra II......Part 3: Family Fortunes......Part 4: A Change of Character......Part 5: Seleucia I
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Part 6: Seleucia II......Part 7: Seleucia III......Part 8: Seleucia IV......Part 9: Seleucia V
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Thanks to ImageShack for free image hosting!


Join us next time for even more hardcore combat and family fun!

[Nellup]

Another great installement and congrats on the new girlfriend.

[dacdac]

they should make a "best story written while drunk" award. Good job on this installment. Do you have M2TW, because an AAR using your style for it should be even more interesting with all the different units and features.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

My first time seeing this AAR - it's very entertaining! I'm just jealous, wishing you had done it with Hayasdan in EB. Great work.

[Fate]

You never fail to impress, my friend

[Barbarossa82]

Greetings Hayastan fans, and welcome to another installment. Sorry it's been so long since the last update - my write-ups had caught up with my last savegame, so I actually had to play some more of the campaign before I could continue! At least I'm sober this time.

My first time seeing this AAR - it's very entertaining! I'm just jealous, wishing you had done it with Hayasdan in EB. Great work.

Thank you, and to all others who have been so generous with their comments. I would certainly have made this into an EB AAR, but unfortunately when I try to start 0.8, my three and a half-year old, 64 MB, stripped down laptop graphics card laughs in my face. Guess I'll have to wait for my new PC before I can sample the glory that is EB.

Right, now for:

Chapter 14: Dawn of Empire


Part 1: World of Wonders......Part 2: End of an Era......Part 3: Seize the Day......Part 4: 1st Tylis I
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Part 5: 1st Tylis II......Part 6: Macedonian Mutiny......Part 7: 2nd Tylis
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[Nellup]

As usual excellent, a great read.

[Fate]

You continue to release wonderful and enthralling work my friend!!
Nice work and keep up the excellent writing skills, i'll be needing my fix of this AAR in the near future!!

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Well done! Such a good read!

[Upxl]

Well I finished reading the last part.
Now i don't know what to do with myself.

Don't want to pressure you but wath's the next deadline?

[Barbarossa82]

Well I finished reading the last part.
Now i don't know what to do with myself.

Don't want to pressure you but wath's the next deadline?

Sorry sir, coming right up sir!

Upxl, Omanes Alexandrapolites the Idiot, Fate, Nellup - thanks for your continued support guys

Okay, let's get back to business with...

Chapter 15: A Fool and his Money

Part 1: Siwa I......Part 2: Siwa II......Part 3: Siwa III......Part 4: Always Read the Small Print
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Part 5: The Army Grows......Part 6: Medea I......Part 7: Media II......Part 8: Borders Secured
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Join us next time when we'll be seeing if Armenians and Romans can learn to live with each other's territorial ambitions. Yeah, right.

[Poulp']

Great installment !

I still miss King Sarduri, let's hope Emperor Philipos to be the right man to suceed him.


PS
Congratulations, you've reached 100 pages !

[dacdac]

great job Barbarossa! You have been entertaining us all with your fantastic and captivating writing ever since the beginning!

100 pages!!! I can't believe it!!!
Congrats!!!!

[Roman_Man#3]

Very good chapter. Can't wait to see who wins the sure to happen war between the mighty empire of Armenia and the fruitless senate of Rome.

[Fate]

Another excellent installment my friend!!
I was late into college this morning because i was reading it haha

Also, ive been playing a sassanid campaign recently on BI, and it feels really similar to this one lol, cataphract archers in particular!

Did you really place the bribe that high? Did you think itd make an amusing twist in the story? Or was it (more likely) a drunk and amusing accident?

Cant wait for the next hit

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Great AAR Barbarossa. Expert writing, superb style, what more can one want. Well done!

[Upxl]

I’m playing a good old fashioned Jullii campaign.
Last turn I received the message that the hands of the evil Pontus have destroyed the Armenian faction.

Couldn’t help but to feel bad about it.

[César Victor]

Great job, Barbarossa. You've inspired me to make something similar on my next campaign. I hope it's anything near as good as yours.

EDIT: Out of curiosity, what program do you use to make your AAR?

[LuckyDog Trojan]

Barbarossa82:
Like so many others who have already attested on here - great, great job!

Your text & writing style along with the game-based illustrations AND the tongue-in-cheek humor, keep all of us thoroughly entertained and wanting more. (For several days now your entries have served as entertainment during my lunch break while at work). Artashes of Tomisa getting 'swindled' for more than a half-million denarii had me laughing out loud!!

Keep up the great work - and like everyone else - can't wait for the future installments and continuing adventures of the Sarduian clan. You are truly R:TW literary inspiration for us all.

[Barbarossa82]

Hearty Armenian greetings once again, fellow Org dudes, and sorry for the long hiatus (seems like I say that every post!). Real-world work got on top of me a little but I think I'm over the worst of that now so hopefully updates will be a little more regular

Thank you all for raising my morale with your kind comments. If you put your mouse pointer over me right now, you'd get a tooltip saying "Steady (spirits lifted by the orgahs' encouragements)".

Just to respond to some of your feedback:

Poulp' and dacdac, well spotted with the 100 pages mark! I hadn't noticed but it's nice to reach that milestone and hopefully I won't have to write another 100 pages before it's done!

Fate: yep, you rumbled me. I didn't read the bribe price properly, so I thought I was forking out 50,000 instead of 500,000. Couldn't believe it when I saw the end of turn report. Then I had to pin the blame on poor old Artashes of Tomisa for the purposes of the AAR!

Upxl: that is a tragic story. I hope they treated their defeated Armenian subjects well

and César Victor: the program is an old, cheapo Desktop Publishing app called Serif PagePlus (version 6 is what I use, I think they're up to about 10 now).

OK, let's get on with...


Chapter 16: The Mauling of Macedon

Part 1: Scythian Plains I......Part 2: Scythian Plains 2......Part 3: Death by Dastardy......Part 4: Campus Scythii 1
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Part 5: Campus Scythii 2......Part 6: Campus Scythii 3......Part 7: Adoption Spree
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[LuckyDog Trojan]

As always - another great installment of the continuing adventures of the Saduri clan. Macedon is isolated and the Brutii (albeit the full might of imperial Rome) loom on the horizon.

[dacdac]

Great job Barbarossa. There really is no point in me saying that anymore b/c you know we all love your influential story telling. Do you have any idea if your going to do another one, and if so, what faction?

dacdac

[Roman_Man#3]

Very well written. Probably the best one yet. It is hard to imagine that Armenia rised from a tiny kingdom in obscurity into a world spanning empire. What year is it now though? And do have you enabled late cavalry bodygaurd?

[Nellup]

As usual an excellent write up, a shame about Arame though, maybe we should all watch out for spiders wielding blades!

Nellup

[Fate]

Well my friend, i was waiting for that all week!
And oh my, it was worth the wait!

Ive really considered doing one of these myself, but i dunno if id actually get around to it, i shall see what time brings, and yeh, thats a good point, what year are you upto?

[Upxl]

Fate: yep, you rumbled me. I didn't read the bribe price properly, so I thought I was forking out 50,000 instead of 500,000. Couldn't believe it when I saw the end of turn report.

It made a good story to tell so don’t worry about it.



Cant wait what you’re cooking up for us next Barb.
No doubt live will get pretty hard for those bleeding Romans any day now hu?!
Also it seems that you're starting an AAR hype around here, giving inspiration to other talented (soon to be) AAR writers and that little push in the back for others who needed it.
Well done! (this is getting old aint it).

Fate; "Bring it on" I say, just love reading these things.

Cheers

[Barbarossa82]

Yet another episode of Armenian awesomeness for all you readers out there. We have now seen over 75 years of Armenian history, and there are only 17 more years to go. Although they are pretty packed with battles.
I may have to tone down the detail on some of the battles to stop you guys getting bored, as some of them seem a bit repetitive due to my cheesy tactics and the AI stupidity.
Writing this is fun but kinda tiring also. I would like to do another at some time in the future - probably for BI - but I think various family members will murder me if I plan that right now!
I would love to think that I have inspired others to write AARs, I love to read other people's.


Chapter 17: Brutii and the Beast

Part 1: Grim Tidings......Part 2: Macedonia I......Part 3: Macedonia II......Part 4: Paionia I
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Part 5: Paionia II......Part 6: Paionia III......Part 7: Dacia I......Part 8: Dacia II
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[Poulp']

yeah

maybe it looks like I was hiding somewhere waiting for the next part of this AAR
and maybe it was true

I'll edit that post as soon as I'm done reading

Reading done !
Lots of battle in this installment, and although the narration is vivid, I fear it'll slow the story down.

As a sidenote, I particulary enjoyed the picture of Asinus Agrippa heroically leaving the battelfield.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Another great instalment Barbarossa!

[Fate]

Nice work man! Once again youve got an action filled addition. I figured youd have a new one up today but with the date and all my girlfriend has been here all day so i aint had the chance lol, but now ive read it im a happy guy!
Lets see how this World War breaks down! Rome vs Armenia!!