This will be my first attempt at an AAR, so I’m just going to play it for laughs. It will be a humor AAR... or at least, an attempt at one... using quintelosky’s Mod-34 for Armageddon v1.2.
To date, all of my humor writing has been for television, which is a completely different environment from the Internet. In particular, in TV screenwriting you get to bounce your ideas off your co-workers, work out all the bugs, and run them through endless revisions and re-writes before anyone actually sees them. From that point of view, this AAR will be very much a “first draft”, so you’ll have to bear with me. If it turns out that it isn’t particularly entertaining after all... a very real possibility... then don’t read it.
I will be playing as Germany, starting in 1934, with my country still almost completely disarmed by the Versailles Treaty. Since I’m still a complete noob at Mod-34... and since the point of the AAR is not to show off my “leet skillz”, but to entertain my readers and to showcase quintelosky’s excellent mod, the game will be played on Normal/Normal.
The format for the AAR will be pseudo-Multi-Player. That is: I will be playing a Single-Player game, but presenting it in the AAR as if it were a Multi-Player game, with most of the commentary provided in the form of a faked “chat-log” between the imaginary players. Each of these “virtual’ players will have his own personality: a sneaky, exploitive, untrustworthy Hitler (that’s me); a bombastic, ambitious, opportunistic Mussolini; a gullible, totally ineffectual “League of Nations” Secretary General, a ruthless, cynical Stalin... there will be serious gaming, role-playing, gamesmanship, cheesy exploits; all the different styles that you might encounter in a random group of computer gamers.
Let’s begin: it’s October 1934, and this is... The Game.
Index to game updates:
1st update
2nd update
3rd update
4th update
5th update
6th update
7th update
8th update
9th update
10th update
11th update
12th update
13th update
14th update
15th update
16th update
17th update
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Winner, 2008 Iron Heart Award for the best HOI-2 AAR of 2008.
To date, all of my humor writing has been for television, which is a completely different environment from the Internet. In particular, in TV screenwriting you get to bounce your ideas off your co-workers, work out all the bugs, and run them through endless revisions and re-writes before anyone actually sees them. From that point of view, this AAR will be very much a “first draft”, so you’ll have to bear with me. If it turns out that it isn’t particularly entertaining after all... a very real possibility... then don’t read it.
I will be playing as Germany, starting in 1934, with my country still almost completely disarmed by the Versailles Treaty. Since I’m still a complete noob at Mod-34... and since the point of the AAR is not to show off my “leet skillz”, but to entertain my readers and to showcase quintelosky’s excellent mod, the game will be played on Normal/Normal.
The format for the AAR will be pseudo-Multi-Player. That is: I will be playing a Single-Player game, but presenting it in the AAR as if it were a Multi-Player game, with most of the commentary provided in the form of a faked “chat-log” between the imaginary players. Each of these “virtual’ players will have his own personality: a sneaky, exploitive, untrustworthy Hitler (that’s me); a bombastic, ambitious, opportunistic Mussolini; a gullible, totally ineffectual “League of Nations” Secretary General, a ruthless, cynical Stalin... there will be serious gaming, role-playing, gamesmanship, cheesy exploits; all the different styles that you might encounter in a random group of computer gamers.
Let’s begin: it’s October 1934, and this is... The Game.
Index to game updates:
1st update
2nd update
3rd update
4th update
5th update
6th update
7th update
8th update
9th update
10th update
11th update
12th update
13th update
14th update
15th update
16th update
17th update
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Winner, 2008 Iron Heart Award for the best HOI-2 AAR of 2008.
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