AAR

[lionhard]

Ok basically all i want is a few tips into making a nice AAR. I ahve a few questions to those experienced people out thier.

1) What does AAR stand for?
2) Whats the best way to write an AAR, 3rd person? or 1st person?
3) How the hell do u take screen shots, so u dont have to cntrl alt and delete and save each 1 seperately in paint, because so far its took me 4 hours to to documentate my troubles in greece which only lasted 6 turns :s

Any other tips would be nice too

I want this AAR to rival the best :)

[Unintended BM]

1. After Action Report, I think
2. It's up to you really. They each have their advantages.
3. I use FRAPS. It's free and it doesn't require you to constantly exit the program to paste.

All I have to say is, use a lot of pictures. I know some people don't mind big walls of text and they find it interesting, and I do too if it's well done, but I think pictures are nice to break up the text after a few paragraphs.

[lionhard]

whats fraps and how do i get it?

[Ibn-Khaldun]

You do know what Google is, right? :inquisitive:

Fraps (http://www.fraps.com/)

[lionhard]

I prefere to save time an let some 1 else do the reaearch when iv already got loads on my hands :P

Also when making an AAR and when you want to place pictures of the army stacks on the map is their an easier way than taking ss's and manualley dragging them into other pictures. Is their an icon to press in game to get all stacks up rather than having to individualley click on them and drag them all into 1 picture?

[lionhard]

Im gonna wait for EB 2 til i do an AAR

[WinsingtonIII]

Im gonna wait for EB 2 til i do an AAR

That might be quite a while... If you don't plan on making it too long, you could probably finish an EB1 AAR by the time EB2 comes out I'm guessing

[lionhard]

Yes but i want my AAR to be quite illistrative and well written with lots of information on the historic accounts of what was happening at that time. For the amount of work involved and the quality i want i may as well wait for the better quality game. Theirs still things i can do. I want to make a nice donation soon aswell, just its been a 5 week month and im really skint :(

[Hooahguy]

if i had to guess than EB1 in its current state will be much better than the first version of EB2.


but i want my AAR to be quite illistrative and well written with lots of information on the historic accounts of what was happening at that time.
thats up to you, not up to the game.
the game offers all that, but its up to you if you want to include it.

about AARs:
i suggest you read some AARs to understand the range of types. you have some which are mostly text, some which is mostly pictures, and some which have a balance.

[lionhard]

Yeh ill be going for a balance, but my problem is im so into my seleucid campaign i dont wanna be stopping to do an AAR now lol :P

[Hooahguy]

even better! start the AAR from where you are right now!
there are AARs out there that start from half-way into the campaign!

[lionhard]

Yeh i was thinkin that it would also be more interesting throwing you right into the action, rather than a slow start :)

Edit : why isnt my sig showin up :(