AAR question

[Ghaust the Moor]

this is probably a noobish question, but If I were to write an aar that was so long that it took place in Europa Barbarorum through Medivel 2 total war and maybe Empire total war, where would I post it?

[Molinaargh]

Mead Hall: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=37

That's where I have my RTW + MTW AAR.

[Ghaust the Moor]

Mead Hall: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=37

That's where I have my RTW + MTW AAR.

Oh dangit. I thought I was the first to think of that. oh well

@frontline: like what kind of details?

[DaciaJC]

Oh, like what faction you're planning to play as, the tone of the AAR, your goals, etc. Unless, of course, all of this is purely hypothetical.

[Molinaargh]

Oh dangit. I thought I was the first to think of that.

I doubt anyone was ever the first to think of something.

It does make sense to keep the EB part in the EB AAR forum if you're not going to play the different games simultaneously (which I'm doing).

[Ghaust the Moor]

I actually plan on doing it, but as to what faction I have no idea. I still have to do some research. I plan on doing it like a history book that plays a realistic campaign (vh/vh) and playing the story in succsesion, starting from eb all the way to etw hopefully. I'll take any suggestions. It will be written from the faction leaders pov. It is going to be rped as a book that has been passed down form king to king that each one records what has been done during his reign. I'll occasionally give insights to the culture of the time, depending on the cicumstances of the game

[DaciaJC]

Most forum members, including I, would caution you against a battle difficulty of Very Hard, as it completely skews the effectiveness and use of units. Some may even warn against a Very Hard campaign difficulty, which may leave no course outside of blitzing. 'Tis your choice, of course.

[DaciaJC]

Since it starts within EB's timeframe, I would keep it in the EB AAR section, at least initially. Can you offer details?

[Owen Glyndwr]

this is probably a noobish question, but If I were to write an aar that was so long that it took place in Europa Barbarorum through Medivel 2 total war and maybe Empire total war, where would I post it?

Well, If I recall correctly, Olaf Blackeyes started an AAR with the Sweboz, and is now into Invasio Barbarorum/BI, and his is on the EB AAR section.

I suppose if you really wanted to you could start as Romans in EB, and then roleplay on as the Byzantines into BI and MTW, however, it wouldn't go much further than that. It's really hard to do one that goes on to E:TW as there aren't really any nations that I can think of which reigned continuously from 270 BC to the 1700s (Many of the "European Nations" which we have now originated in some way or form from the various migration which occured in the late Roman Empire, i.e. Franks=France, Angles=England, etc.)

If anyone can think of one, let me know.

[Ghaust the Moor]

I probably won't go into ETW. There are too few factions to be worht it and like you said, it would be innaccurate.

I was thinking, maybe doing:


Scotland
/
Casse-- England
\
Saxons

Portugal
/
Lussotanna--Spain
\
Moors


Venice
/ Holy Roman Empire
/ /
Rome---- Papal states
\ \ \
\ \ Milan
\ Byzantine Empire
Sicily


Gallic tribes--Denmark
\
France


Getae-- Hungary



All of this depend on how the game turns out though. I am not goin to make this a conquer the world AAR. Towards the end of the EB campaign I will let the country fall into a decline, I won't let it be destroyed ever though. I plan on starting M2TW as if the new king has become ambitious and he has made his mind to renew the greatness of his kingdom. There of course will be a time gap between in the story, to illustrate the harsh times the kingdom was going through as if a dark age has been entered.

[Ariovistus Maximus]

I think it is a GRAND idea! I wanted to do a RTW + M2TW one someday, but (hehe) I'd need to get M2TW first.

But all THREE would really be something! And if you added expansions to get Barbarian Invasion to cover between RTW and M2...

Of course, you would have to do a considerable amount of writing between the joints of RTW > M2 > ETW, to make it plausible.

Or you could kinda start in ETW and rp that an archaeologist found some records of the X tribe, and then go into RTW from there...


The Casse or Gauls would be easy; they are pretty important in all three games.

Anyways, I will SO balloon you if you do it. And if you finish I will put you in my sig for OTHER people to balloon you, untill you have a whole fleet of them.

Good luck!

[Ghaust the Moor]

I would have to get ETW first as well. I don't think I'll go into it though. Not enough variation in the factions. I will stick to EB- M2TW. What is a good faction to use?

[Ariovistus Maximus]

Well, if you have BI you could do some more variation.

As far as my thinking takes me, to play any faction, you would kinda need to play parts of several different campaigns. Well, not really; only if you wanted to make it historical. If you wanted to play the english in M2 for instance, then you could start as the Casse, play that for a bit, then play as Rome and conquer a chunk of Britain. Then you would have to start a BI game and play as the Celts and get Britain back, then you'd have to play the Saxons and invade Britain.

Then you would have more or less a proper historical intro to it, unless you wanted it to be completely ahistorical. Then you could just start with x and go bonkers!

You could even conquer 3/4 of the map as x faction in EB, then rp that when you start M2, the FL that conquered the world in EB died, and his empire fragmented into all the M2 civs! Kinda like Alexader.

Or what you could do, is play (for instance Casse), win the Casse campaign, then play another game where you're the Gauls or Iberians or something, give the victory condition cities to Casse, and then play until you shove the Casse out of europe. Then you could move into M2 and play the rebirth of the British empire or something.

Anyways, those are just a few ideas as far as structure; I like to do stuff like that to break it up and set it apart from your ordinary AAR theme. I'm planning one as Pontus, but it will start out in Galatia... before the time of Mithridates I Ksistes...

Anyways, as to the faction...

I suppose there are M2 equivalents to many of the EB civs. Your web of x=x=x is quite good!

Casse=Britain
Gauls=French
Lusotannan=Spanish
Germans=HRE (to make that work you'd have to use BI) or Danish
Rome=Byzantium (you'd want BI for that too)
Carthage=one of the berber kingdoms (I assume they have one in M2? you could rp that Tunisia is
Carthage reborn)
Egypt=Egypt
Parthia+Armenia=Sassanids=Turks or any other Arab faction really.

Anyways, you already came up with those urself.
The other nomads, Bartix, and Saba might not really have a place to fit in.

I suppose each of them would be about the same method of developing a storyline...
Casse and Gauls would be the easiest I would think. If you wanted a real challenge you could play as Rome, win that, then switch sides in EB and destroy W. Rome, then play Byzantines in M2.

Anyways, I'm sure It'll be quite good! If you need help with anything (but I can't imagine what that would be; I don't even have M2! ) ring me up!