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To celebrate that the demo for Victoria II: A House Divided is releasing later today we are running an After Action Report (AAR) Contest for Victoria II: A House Divided! Write an AAR and and submit it before February 29th to have a chance to win one out of two Paradox Complete Bundles on Steam. The devs will elect the winners and announce them on March 1st. The winning entries will be published on the news section of the forums and spread on Facebook and Twitter.

There are no specific format rules or requirements besides from that we'd like you to post your AAR as a new post in the AAR forum here: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...al-Discussions and link to it in this thread.

Let your creativity loose and good luck folks!

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To celebrate that the demo for Victoria II: A House Divided is releasing later today we are running an After Action Report (AAR) Contest for Victoria II: A House Divided! Write an AAR and and submit it before February 29th to have a chance to win one out of two Paradox Complete Bundles on Steam. The devs will elect the winners and announce them on February 30th. The winning entries will be published on the news section of the forums and spread on Facebook and Twitter.

Odd ;)
 

How's that odd? Never noticed that Paradox games tend to have a February 30th? It's a symbol of Swedish work ethic. Even when a month formally ends, they keep on going.
 
How's that odd? Never noticed that Paradox games tend to have a February 30th? It's a symbol of Swedish work ethic. Even when a month formally ends, they keep on going.

Interestingly there was an actual February 30th in Sweden. In 1712.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_February

"The Swedish Empire (which included Finland at the time) planned to change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar beginning in 1700 by omitting leap days for the next 40 years. Although the leap day was omitted in February 1700, the Great Northern War began later that year, diverting the attention of the Swedes from their calendar so they did not omit leap days on the next two occasions, causing 1704 and 1708 to remain leap years.

To avoid confusion and further mistakes, the Julian calendar was restored when, in 1712, one extra leap day was added, thus giving that year a 30th of February. That date corresponded to February 29 in the Julian calendar and to March 11 in the Gregorian calendar. The Swedish changeover to the Gregorian calendar was finally accomplished in 1753 by omitting the last 11 days of February."

It would make an interesting easter egg to include it in EU4.
 
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