Barbarossa82's Armenian AAR

[Barbarossa82]

Dear followers of the glorious history of Armenia and its uniquely alcoholic ruling family,
I have decided to move my Armenian AAR, "Hayastan: From Kingdom to Empire", out of the "Rise & Expansion of your Empire" thread into its own thread so as not to clutter the old one up. So here I'll post the original chapters, plus more as the campaign progresses.

CHAPTER 1: Artaxias's Dream

Part 1: Introduction......Part 2: The Family......Part 3: First Expedition
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Part 4: Phraaspa I......Part 5: Phraaspa II......Part 6: Fruits of Victory
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[Barbarossa82]

And now for....

CHAPTER 2: New Conquests, New Rivals

Part 1: Looking Outward......Part 2: Chersonnesos I......Part 3: Chersonnesos II
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Part 4: Chersonnesos III......Part 5: A King's Legacy......Part 6: The Pontic Menace
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More to come, time/willpower permitting!

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[Hargrimm]

Wonderful writing, I felt really involved involved! However, I would advise that you don't use italics for the majority of your text. It makes it a lot harder to read, for me, at least.

[LegioScythia]

wow cool story cant wait for more

[bedlam28]

Great to see another instalment Barb.
I hope you get to keep us informed as things develop.
You have a great style and its a pleasure to read.

[Barbarossa82]

Well thank you all for your comments and I'm glad you like the AAR. I've been very busy lately so haven't had much of a chance to play or write things up, but there is more in the pipeline. Anyway here for your amusement is Chapter 3.

Oh and sorry about the italics, I thought it made things look more "chronicle-y" but I guess it does make it kinda hard to read. Anyway these had already been done so I couldn't really be bothered to redo it (the JPGs are exported from a DTP program so you have to edit the DTP file and then re-export it to correct stuff )

Chapter 3: A History of the Pontic War

Part 1: The Sword Unsheathed.......Part 2: Rain of Fury......Part 3: Battle of Kotais I......Part 4: Battle of Kotais II
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Part 5: Man with a Plan......Part 6: The Siege of Nicomedia......Part 7: Vahagan's Vengeance
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That's all for now folks!

[MSB]

[The Spartan (Returns)]

great!!

[Ower]

Did I reed right? the Scipii besieged Rome??
In 254, now thats crazy but totaly cool
Give a Screenshot, thats worth to see

This AAR is really cool I enyo it.
I am couriouse, how did you make tabs.

[Barbarossa82]

Once more thank you all very much for your kind comments, I'm glad to hear you enjoy the AAR! There are a few more pages in the pipeline and I'll publish those as soon as possible.

Did I reed right? the Scipii besieged Rome??
In 254, now thats crazy but totaly cool
Give a Screenshot, thats worth to see

This AAR is really cool I enyo it.
I am couriouse, how did you make tabs.

Whoops, something's not right there! I just checked my handwritten notes and it was (unsurprisingly), Lilybaeum and not Rome that fell to the Scipii in 254. I blame the Armenian State Propaganda Ministry for this. Sorry!

I'm not too sure what you mean by "tabs", but the process of making the AAR was basically to take handwritten notes and many, many screenshots while playing the campaign, then use a batch converter to make the screenshots from TGAs into JPEGs, assemble the whole thing in a DTP program and then export each page as a JPEG. These can then be uploaded to ImageShack which gives you the code to make the thumbails.

Back soon with more tales of famous exploits and drinking binges.

[UltraWar]

Barbarossa82, I'll join you in the drinking binges as I'm on leave from my duties for the time being. I hope you luck in dominating the whole of Asia Minor. Just be careful in your wars and watch out for the imperial might of Roma!

I'll see you soon for the drinking binges

[Ower]

What exectly is a DTP?

I think, the Armenians should chadge the minister of propaganda, he´s probably geting too old for the job

Can´t wait for the next instalment