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It was easy to do back in the day. I'm unsure if I just assumed the links would last forever or that the work would be done and forgotten before they did. Either way mistakes were made.
That's rather unfortunate. I recall that I had an imagehack for my first two collapsed AARs, and they definitely did not bear up to the intent.

But I did still lose all the pictures from the first half of Furious Vengeance and that was a blow, particularly when it was the only AAR I'd ever finished.
Do you have a link for that?

While this is obviously true, the picture I've found of Sarrat for Chapter XVII is quite spicy. It's from his Governor of Indochina phase and it is a very bold look he is rocking.
I was expecting something... different.

I've got to a chapter with some maps in and, while I have the originals, they are a bit rough even by my own average-ish standards (I am no @roverS3 or @Wraith11B when it comes to such graphics! :) ). I'm fighting the temptation to redo them, because while I do like a nice bit of map making, to do so would lead me down the dark path towards doing Redux. So I am resisting for now and trying to work on an actual new update.
I appreciate the compliment, and say that if you'd like some help I'd be happy to oblige... though I must also admit that I'm no roverS3, either... that said, I'm working on getting through June 1944!
 
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And trains.

I have many train photos from when there still was a railway in my birth town. Fortunately for the Romantics, the line ended before the steam engine so they can feel free to walk over the unsullied memories forever.

Might sneak it in end of 1937. The King's Alternative Christmas Message.

I'll drink to that!

An update in our time!

Unfortunate phrasing there...
 
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I've got to a chapter with some maps in and, while I have the originals, they are a bit rough even by my own average-ish standards (I am no @roverS3 or @Wraith11B when it comes to such graphics! :) ). I'm fighting the temptation to redo them, because while I do like a nice bit of map making, to do so would lead me down the dark path towards doing Redux. So I am resisting for now and trying to work on an actual new update.
Resist the temptation to redo what you've already done... again... it can remain the way it is as it's not a testament of who you are now, but of who you were when you published it. If anything, it can provide contrast and context, showing how you have improved your craft over the years. Maybe finish the AAR before you start on a second round of retroactive improvements? Who am I kidding. Just do what feels right to you, and I'm sure we'll enjoy it regardless. Also thanks for the compliment, it is much appreciated.

I appreciate the compliment, and say that if you'd like some help I'd be happy to oblige... though I must also admit that I'm no roverS3, either... that said, I'm working on getting through June 1944!
@El Pip I'd be happy to help you out with the maps, especially if it would help you get the next update out sooner. Don't hesitate to send me a pm if I can be of assistance.
@Wraith11B Have fun playing. I've managed to get some things in order these last few days, and I'll be playing on to the 10th of September 1942 tomorrow, if all goes well.
 
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First off may I just thank @Wraith11B for posting at the top of the page and removing any pressure I may have felt to rush something out. Very much appreciated (by me, but probably no-one else ;) ).

An update in our time!
That is a schedule I think I can meet.

That's rather unfortunate. I recall that I had an imagehack for my first two collapsed AARs, and they definitely did not bear up to the intent.


Do you have a link for that?
Furious Vengeance - A 1944 UK AAR - I hope it still makes sense without a chunk of the images. It did win the Iron HeAARt Award for best finished HOI AAR back in 2009 so it was quite good when it had the pictures, hopefully the words are enough.

I was expecting something... different.

For an official photograph of a governor, that is about as funky as France got.

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I have many train photos from when there still was a railway in my birth town. Fortunately for the Romantics, the line ended before the steam engine so they can feel free to walk over the unsullied memories forever.
It is the diesel train preservation people you have to watch out for. Apparently they do exist and like to annoy heritage railway romantics by trying to preserve old diesel trains.


Resist the temptation to redo what you've already done... again... it can remain the way it is as it's not a testament of who you are now, but of who you were when you published it. If anything, it can provide contrast and context, showing how you have improved your craft over the years. Maybe finish the AAR before you start on a second round of retroactive improvements? Who am I kidding. Just do what feels right to you, and I'm sure we'll enjoy it regardless. Also thanks for the compliment, it is much appreciated.
I am absolutely resisting the temptation to redo things, but I would like the pictures to work so people re-reading (or maybe even reading for the first time) can follow along better. And I do like making a map, even if the results are not up to the high standards of others.

Thanks to both you and @Wraith11B for the kind offers of assistance, but I think I will decline. I'm going to try to focus my efforts on new stuff and just doing 'good enough' quick maps to replace that which was lost.
 
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I've been had! Me, king of page counting! I heartily apologise to my fellow travelers here and will figuratively go commit ritual seppuku.
 
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I've been had! Me, king of page counting! I heartily apologise to my fellow travelers here and will figuratively go commit ritual seppuku.

Thats too good for you. I sentence you to watch a random series of monty python. All of it. No skipping.
 
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Jokes on you, I've already watched them all!

Always fun to watch people who've only seen the movies and their best sketches on YouTube sit down and watch the series and go WTF with 70% of the stuff.
 
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Excellent Python discussion, good work everyone.

In update news, I thought this subject would be suitable for a short update. I was incorrect. It's not going to be super-long (I don't think...), but my idea for snappy <1,000 word short chapters that I could produce at a reasonable rate has proven an illusion. Sorry about that.
 
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For you, Pip, 1000 words is a mere abstract, bereft of details worthy of the Butterfly name!

Regardless, we eagerly await your next installment, regardless of length.
 
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my idea f

Oh paradox, this is most excellent quoting software.

Anyway, it's hard to keep updates under a thousand words. GEN was supposed to be that, exploring the tutorial guide of the day and asks questions the game didn't answer. Ballooned quickly to 2000 words average and lots of strange musings in what's going on in the world of CK3. And butterfly was never supposed to be quick summaries of topics anyway.

Wonder what a wordflow chart would look like of this work? Navy would be huge, of course, but how large would tractors, Churchill, bastards, incompetence etc be?
 
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Dear Butterfly fans, could you perhaps point me to HoI3/HoI4 British AAR's similar to old HoI2 UK AAR's like "Sacred Grove of Britannia", "British interests, British honour, British obligations" (and of course "Butterfly effect")? So history book AAR's with attention to realism and detail (not gameplay driven).

Other countries history book AAR's also, I prefer British but I like them all. In my younger days I used to scour the forums for such threads, but now I lack both time and willpower.

Naval porn is also a huge plus.
 
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Dear Butterfly fans, could you perhaps point me to HoI3/HoI4 British AAR's similar to old HoI2 UK AAR's like "Sacred Grove of Britannia", "British interests, British honour, British obligations" (and of course "Butterfly effect")? So history book AAR's with attention to realism and detail (not gameplay driven).

Other countries history book AAR's also, I prefer British but I like them all. In my younger days I used to scour the forums for such threads, but now I lack both time and willpower.

Naval porn is also a huge plus.

That is, in fact, most of the big hoi2 aars from yesteryear. Everyone was on a save the empire kick a few decades ago.
 
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Dear Butterfly fans, could you perhaps point me to HoI3/HoI4 British AAR's similar to old HoI2 UK AAR's like "Sacred Grove of Britannia", "British interests, British honour, British obligations" (and of course "Butterfly effect")? So history book AAR's with attention to realism and detail (not gameplay driven).

Other countries history book AAR's also, I prefer British but I like them all. In my younger days I used to scour the forums for such threads, but now I lack both time and willpower.

Naval porn is also a huge plus.
Mine is Axis-focused, but certainly meets the HoI3 + Naval Porn qualifications.

That is, in fact, most of the big hoi2 aars from yesteryear. Everyone was on a save the empire kick a few decades ago.
A few of them still are on that kick!
 
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We, Butterfly effect fans... what are we?

Butterfliers? Butterflieffecters? Butterfects? Pip's minions?
 
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For you, Pip, 1000 words is a mere abstract, bereft of details worthy of the Butterfly name!

Regardless, we eagerly await your next installment, regardless of length.
Wise words as always. This is probably why the actual next chapter ended up as around 4,000 words. Which as you say is a proper Butterfly length.

Anyway, it's hard to keep updates under a thousand words. GEN was supposed to be that, exploring the tutorial guide of the day and asks questions the game didn't answer. Ballooned quickly to 2000 words average and lots of strange musings in what's going on in the world of CK3. And butterfly was never supposed to be quick summaries of topics anyway.
Dundee chapter was 2,000 so you are probably correct on the length. I do have aspirations to be able to dismiss entire topics in a single less than respectful sentence, I just can't quite manage it.

Wonder what a wordflow chart would look like of this work? Navy would be huge, of course, but how large would tractors, Churchill, bastards, incompetence etc be?
Odd is how it looks. 315 Navy, 150 Churchill, only 16 tractor/tractors, no bastards and somehow only a single incompetence. Strip out the obvious words ('the' and so on) and leaders are 717 British followed by 385 Royal.

Dear Butterfly fans, could you perhaps point me to HoI3/HoI4 British AAR's similar to old HoI2 UK AAR's like "Sacred Grove of Britannia", "British interests, British honour, British obligations" (and of course "Butterfly effect")? So history book AAR's with attention to realism and detail (not gameplay driven).

Other countries history book AAR's also, I prefer British but I like them all. In my younger days I used to scour the forums for such threads, but now I lack both time and willpower.

Naval porn is also a huge plus.
I too would be interested in such a thing should you find it. The History Book style is somewhat of a rarity these days.

That is, in fact, most of the big hoi2 aars from yesteryear. Everyone was on a save the empire kick a few decades ago.
A lot of British AARs perhaps, but they were mostly narrative. In addition to the ones mentioned For King and Country, Against All Odds, Kings First Minister stand out and they were narrative. There were actually surprisingly few History Book ones.

Mine is Axis-focused, but certainly meets the HoI3 + Naval Porn qualifications.
This is absolutely true. Though some of the German ships more qualify as horror shows than naval-pron, especially given the tragic and miserable uses to which they are put ( ;) :) )

We, Butterfly effect fans... what are we?

Butterfliers? Butterflieffecters? Butterfects? Pip's minions?
Subjects.
Minions or Subjects. Either works for me.
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Adversaries.
A foolish role to put yourself in. If nothing else I have endurance on my side, I can probably keep majestically writing this longer than people will have patience to keep reading.


And now, if @Wraith11B can keep control of himself, we have reached the bottom of the page so I can post the next chapter and get top of the next page.
 
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