Wow... thank you King of Men, thank you guys. Certainly didn't expect to win this again!
Well the FitzGeralds was really my first attempt to write an AAR with a concrete set of goals. Usually my AAR's are more story/character driven - in my Canada AAR for instance I barely did anything in game terms and most of the action was based off of elections. The FitzGeralds on the other hand probably saw more action in any one decade than in my entire Canadian AAR!
When writing an AAR I usually like to pick a country that wasn't around, or at least was radically different - partially so I have less research to do and a lower chance to get things wrong (
), but also because it gives me the freedom to create my own royal families, generals and courtiers, away from historical people - I can then do what I want with these characters without having to worry if I'm portraying them rightly or wrongly. CK is brilliant at this - creating completely different characters every time.
Strangely hardly any of my AAR's end up where I was planning to go - with the D'Alema's I certainly didn't think I'd end King of Aragon (and Egypt, Mauretania, North Africa...) and when I set down to write The Patriot's Sword I fully intended to go the Fenian route before even the glimmer of an idea of bringing in Napoleon occurred to me. In my current AAR I started as Tuscany and more or less by accident refounded the Latin Empire! :wacko:
The FitzGeralds are very unusual in largely remaining in Ireland - precedent suggested they would have ended up Kings of Georgia or Dukes of Iceland or something.
Well, wow just thanks again guys, sorry for babbling!