AAR question

[Ghaust the Moor]

I do have BI and i might use that as an inbetween story, but I'm am a little worried. As most of the map is owned by the romans, I would have to add a new faction, right? I'm not sure.

I plan on making it like a chronocle to a factions history as told from the perspective of the King. He will give alot of in-depth mythology concerning the backround of his people and occasionally give insight into the regular people life.

While it will be a chronocle, It will be very rp heavy and will rely on rp to progress in the campaign. the only cheats used will be forced diplomacy in case the AI goes crazy, and the money cheat, in times of hardship, to simulate that my faction got a booster from an ally. It will be payed back, with FD if I must.

It won't be a story based AAR, but a story will be going on at all times. Each King will have his stories and they are mainly told to hint at his personal backround and charactor. They will happen in real time(sort-of) and will influence my desicions in the campaign.

I was considering playing the game in General camera. Is this a good idea? I have never played for a long time like that. But it makes sense since he is telling the story.

In answer to your question, I think that is a good idea to do that. I think it would be annying though, because you have to set aside very long period of time to upload each chapter and if you do it all at once it would take a verrrrry long time.

[Ariovistus Maximus]

Yeah, BI could present some difficulties. But then, (a) that depends on which faction you play, and (b) if you use BI, you don't have to put the BEGINNING of your campaign into the AAR.

If you wanted to play, say, one of the Gauls in EB, and take that into BI, all you have to do is play 1/2 of a game as the Alemanni or something, untill you've taken the BI territories that you had in EB! THEN you could start to show people your campaign progress! That's the best part of AAR writing is that they don't HAVE to see everything you did, as long as everything combines to make a good story.

In my upcoming Pontic AAR, I'm going to play lots of custom battles to spice it up. For instance, there's almost no way I will ever play a large battle where an ally comes to help, but I can set that up in Custom battle! Plus I can fight battles as other factions if I want to for any reason. Perhaps my character will be captured by Parthians... hmmmmm...

Well, you NEVER KNOOOOWWW!!! Anyways, that's what keeps it exciting! (IMO)

I like your method too... telling the story from the viewpoint of each faction leader. That way, you still get the first-person point of view, but you don't have to worry about who will tell the story when your character dies. It automatically passes to the next FL! Very good!

Chirurgeon's Iberian AAR is just what I'm talking about. The character starts as the son of a Carthiginian senator, and ends up chronicling the history of Lusitania!