IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PICTURES (7 DEC 2013): THERE HAVE BEEN SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE PICTURES RECENTLY. IF A PICTURE SEEMS TO BE MISSING FROM THE TEXT AND YOU CAN'T SEE IT, DON'T WORRY, IT'S NOT LOST. EVERY PICTURE IS A LINK TO ITS SAME-SIZE OR LARGER VERSION (DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE PICTURE), AND THE PICTURES ARE PHYSICALLY STILL PRESENT ON IMAGESHACK. IT'S JUST THAT LINKS DON'T ALWAYS WORK. TO VIEW THE PICTURE JUST RIGHT-CLICK ON THE MISSING PICTURE ICON (AS SOON AS YOU SEE IT, WHICH IS WHEN YOUR BROWSER GIVES UP TRYING TO LOAD THE PICTURE), AND OPEN THE PICTURE IN A NEW WINDOW. THE PICTURE WILL THEN SHOW ON IMAGESHACK. YOU SHOULD ALSO BE ABLE TO VIEW OTHER PICTURES FROM THE SAME AAR THERE EASILY.
[Editorial note: This will be a light-hearted AAR (or not, in depends), something to fill in while I'm waiting out the time-frames between updates on the more serious
Lives of the Saints, especially due to the fact that managing a gameplay AAR narrated mainly with screenshots forces pauses in the game, as it's only so far you can go without losing the memory of whatever background surrounded the particular moment recorded by a sreenshot. And when an important king's lifetime can easily produce about 2000 screenshots, this is something to take into account. Needless to say, also here do I have a certain number that are queued and waiting but here I won't be waiting so long with the updates. If I feel like posting, I will. There will not be that much suspense, except maybe when I feel I can deal with the wait. Otherwise I might post even five updates overnight, depending how much work I have to do. On the other hand, I'll try not to let it fall behind. So while this is a light-weight AAR, you can be sure that it will be carried to the end (the end being 1 Jan 1453) and your hopes will not be disappointed. Well, they won't be as long as you like what I'm posting. And that will tend to be what I feel like doing. Due the nature of this AAR as I described, I might be trying various things and this is going to be a freehand project. Nope, nothing drastic like reloading as a different ruler or doing anything like that to the game, absolutely not. But depending on the day, an update may contain a long narrative and just a few screenshots or, on the contrary, it may be just a screenshot chronicle with a precious couple of words in between to guide the flow. There are no ambitions set for this AAR (win this, achieve that, score an award etc.) and it's going to be free of such constraints. It's going to be free, free, free.
Bonus: If you however the mouse cursor over the text or if you have particularly sharp sight, you will notice wikipedia links. Like in my other AARs, they're supposed to provide some background if you're interested and suggest something to read if you're bored. Also, they represent background that I don't particularly feel like rewriting at length in my own words.]