The world according to the Koinon

[alatar]

Brilliant AAR, now do another one

I think the KH or the mac's or eperious are good aar choices as there in the middle of things.

[Bonny]

finnaly/sadly the second AAR which i have read comes to an end. I really liked your way of storytelling, showing the progress of all factions and writing an own story for each one. Thank you very much for such a great and funny piece of computer game animated literatur

einfach nur ganz großes Tennis

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

Thank you all for the friendly reply, wich honours me deeply (really!!)

Centurio Nixalsverdrus: Yes, I think you're right, the concept of Borvoism is indeed mostly about having the biggest moustache. (And about telling Kíng Baeren to pass over his crown (to Borvo) at his 60th birthday)

Wolfman 25: I really thought about making a kind of AAR hall of fame, listing them all with the number of views etc., like they do it in RTR-Forums, maybe with a little text, which explains, what an AAR is. Could be encoraging for more people to write one, which would be very nice. What do you think?

Alatar: My next one will not be about a hellenic faction. While I do not dare to make a Phalavi one because of the Waste Land, it could be about Saka, Sabyn Jau or maybe the Lusitanii. Anyway it will take a little time, because different things have to be written now. But it will come for shure.

Vonsch, Errant and Bonny: Thank you very much!

[alatar]

A Saka one would be very good, so many options, take out the Samaritians? The Parthia? The big blue beast?

[vonsch]

Wolfman 25: I really thought about making a kind of AAR hall of fame, listing them all with the number of views etc., like they do it in RTR-Forums, maybe with a little text, which explains, what an AAR is. Could be encoraging for more people to write one, which would be very nice. What do you think?

I think it would be interesting to have a thread explaining what an AAR is with some links to examples of a variety of types. I know the one I've been dabbling with evolved from a bit disjointed into a more epistolary style with letters among the agent/family members as the main thrust. But it's only now occurring to me just how many different styles there might be. You don't have to cover a whole campaign, for example. Some I've seen or that have occurred to me:

• High-level third-person POV full campaign (a huge challenge)

• Single battle report in detail

• Follow a single agent or family member's career

• Follow a single army's career or a single unit's career

• Follow the history of a single region that sees a lot of action, perhaps from a POV of a non-combatant

• Newspaperish reports of significant events across the known world

• Cover a whole campaign, or part compaign, from the POV of many individuals affected (epistolary is good for this, but could do first-person or third-person too)

• Follow a single family (based on their family name) through a campaign

One advantage to one of the more limited styles is you have a cleaner start and end without having to document a whole campaign. You can go into a lot of detail without exhausting yourself since the period of time is apt to be much shorter.

Limited intel can be fun too. Do this by using a limited POV for the narrator. He or she can't tell what they don't personally know, which leaves you the ability to create suspense for the readers and throw some surprises their way. Of course, there's the 30-40s serial style where you use chapter headings or captions to do it cliff-hanger style: "Will he capture Capua? Or will the legions of Rome fail and and her Empire be lost to the memories of history?"

Comic-book style works pretty well with lots of screen caps and some text photoshopped into it, as we've seen in many cases.

I'm sure others can suggest more, or refinements of these.

[Wolfman]

I think it's a very good idea and that you should follow thru with it.

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

Ok, maybe I'll try something like a list, but not before weekend..

[Orb]

Fantastically done, QK.
Great sense of humour. Good narrative. Progressively more sophisticated photoshopping and jokes.
Loved it!

[Chirurgeon]

while I was rummaging around in my closet looking for a different book I stumbled upon this beauty! I have read it again and laughed for the better part of an hour. Enjoy!

[Romano-Dacis]

Quite a good AAR.

Those poor Getai. No matter how many lands they conquered, no matter how many other civilizations they dwarfed by their sheer size and numbers in the end, they would never live down the name of "dwarfmen"

[Gebeleisis]

i donno why we got the nick of "dwarfs"

[Lysimachos]

i donno why we got the nick of "dwarfs"

Because the Getai live beyond the seven hills :) You probably need some serious knowledge about the brothers grimm's fairy tales to understand that joke

[Gebeleisis]

uhm..lol?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

It was a hilarious and entertaining AAR - one of the two or three best I've ever seen here. It's called humor. If you guys don't quite get it, you can find plenty of ways Romanians stereotype in a "humorous" way other nationalities and ethnicities here. Sometimes such humor even makes fun of the people saying it, and is not really directed at the supposed object of the remark, such as this:

[Gebeleisis]

well i didnt say i didnt enjoy it,just that i didnt get why people made getians dwarfs

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

Hello, here a few words in the dwarf case:
It was because of the getan skirmisher and hoplite untits, that looked kind of dwarfish to me. Later the fairy tale "Schneewittchen and the seven dwarfs" fitted in that concept, because also the Getans always came out of those hills where they lived. I did neither have in mind the historical Getans, of whom I don't know much nor the people of todays Romania. This was never meant in a national chauvinistic way like: "Compared to us you are just dwarfes, höhö". It had in general nothing to do with the real world or real history, it was kind of parrallel universe, the world according to the koinon hellenon. And there, (and only there) behind the seven hills, as Lysander stated, live the itchy dwarfes, drinking hallizinogenal beer and planning wicked plans against Thisbios, the Cruel....
Look, I also pictuered the Baktrians as kind of weird nazi nomadism eradicators, which has really nothing to do with reality nor history but with their behaviour in game.
The romans I took as a bunch of arrogant sissys under the rule of on overweightet Cretin, which was kind of an satirical exaggeration of stereotypes concerning the later Romans, who are seen as "decadent" in comparision to the "fresh" and "unspoilt" northern Europeans who overwhelmed them in the end. In no way it meant as an offense against today Italians.

I had no real concept and did not do much things on purpose in this story. I explored the fantastic game, which was quite new to me this time and made a few stories out the things I found.
I'm really glad, that someone (Chirurgeon) grabbed it out of the cellars of yesterday after nearly one year.
Hope, that explanation suits you, Gebelaisis, and thanks for defending me, Lysimachos and Teleklos.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Nice to see you still hang around here. Do you continue in playing EB? You kinda vanished after your glorious AAR.

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

Nice to see you too, Centurio! I think I had been a little bit burned out after the Koinon AAR. But of course I am still playing EB. Currently I'm on a Pontus Campain on the 1.1., which was really a good choice, not only because of the beautiful galatian units of Ankyria.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

I can understand that with the burn-out!