The 2020 Historybook AAR of the Year is...

[coz1]

We saw a number of longstanding works voted upon here, but also many new ones. Also some multiple nominees, as we have come to expect. That's what happens when we have so many great writAARs. In total, there were 36 different AARs given nomination, but there had to be a winner. And thus, your 2020 Historybook AAR of the Year is...

Jihad on the Savannah: A Vic2 serious Sokoto AAR by @mad orc​

Many congratulations on a win that looked close in the counting but came out quite ahead when all was done. Excellent!

For 2nd place, we see another newer work...

For All We Have and Are: Britain in the Great War - (1901 Series) by @BigBadBob​

And finally for the bronze (which was close to 2nd place)...

Der Adler, der Wolf, und die Sonne: Die Geschichte des Stahlpakts by @Wraith11B​

And additional 33 works were nominated and they were:

The Most Sublime Porte - An Ottoman AAR by @Riotkiller

Empire for Liberty: America in the Long Nineteenth Century by @volksmarschall

The Butterfly Effect: A British AAR by @El Pip

Echoes of A New Tomorrow: Life After Revolution in the Commonwealth of Britain by @DensleyBlair

Pax Astra - A Stellaris AAR by @Rawghi

Vpřed, Zachadie! A 20th Century HtA Zachadia AAR By @Kienzle

A Kingdom In the Clouds: A Ü-Tsang AAR by @RossN

Brigid's Flame: A Gaia's Stepdaughters AAR by @Cora Giantkiller

Italian Ambitions: A Florence AAR by @JerseyGiants88

Empire of the Bear: A History-Book After the End AAR by @GangsterSynod

Fires of New Olympus - an Indo-Greek Kingdom AAR by @Doctor Baby

The dynasty which wouldn't die - a Zengi AAR by @Yvanoff

We Are Sildor - A Federations AAR by @Nikolai

The White Eagle and the Knight by @RossN

Annuntio Vobis: A Papal History of Italy by @slothinator

A Most Forgiving Land: A Nigerian Coast AAR by @Cora Giantkiller

A Storm from the West: a Sunset Invasion AAR by @Kazanov

The Ashen Eagle on the Edge of the World by @Tiberionus

The People of the Forest by @Dunaden

Mistresses Of The Jungle - Amazonia AAR by @dark_melancholy

Rise of the Folkungs, A Nordic AAR by @streaker77

We Stand United: A Stellaris AAR by @journalisticRoman

The Caliphate of al Rus - A Kievan AAR by @Cora Giantkiller

Superior Arguments by @eoncommander

May the Sun Never Set: A British AAR by @Jape

Road of Queens - CKII India AAR by @Eurasia

United Nations Federation, a stellaris AAR (translated into english) by @KODRAM

Ged's Existential Nightmare by @TheButterflyComposer

Here Dwells God - A Jewish Poland AAR, Part Two by @Tommy4ever

History 303 – The Third Kingdom (A CK2 Jerusalem AAR) by @Dunaden

The Mabinogi by @smrice

The Human Stellar Union by @Smokez83

Here Dwells God - A Jewish Poland AAR, Part Three by @Tommy4ever​

So many great works! Congrats to each and every one that found mention here, but most certainly to our winner @mad orc for an excellent Vickie 2 AAR! Now is the time all of you may offer your congrats and speak of the AAR should you wish. Look for the Narrative winner tomorrow (likely early in the day.)

 

[Wraith11B]

Congratulations to all the authors and voters, I'm especially humbled to continue to be associated with all of you!

 

[BigBadBob]

Holy Hell, 2nd Place!

With the quality of the competition, I was just happy to get on the board. That AARland enjoyed FAWHA enough to let it get anywhere near first place, much less outscore all but Jihad (which, if ever there were a deserving winner, then Jihad is it)...

Thank you to everyone who voted, whether for FAWHA or something else; congratulations to fellow podium placers @mad orc and @Wraith11B; a huge thank you to @coz1 for organising the AwAARds; and three cheers for AARland!

 

[Idhrendur]

Congratulations, all!

 

[DensleyBlair]

Many congratulations to our winners and runners-up, and very well done to all nominees! Special thanks of course to all who gave Echoes a vote. Highly appreciated, all.

Very glad to see Vicky so strongly represented on the board. Speaks well of the theory that we're having something of a renaissance over in the sub-forum.

 

[HistoryDude]

Congrats @mad orc!

 

[Macavity116]

Job well done, @mad orc!

And many congratulations to all of the runners up!

 

[Chilango2]

Congrats @mad orc and to all the runner ups! It's lovely to see how vibrant the AAR community is.

 

[Eurasia]

Congrats to the winners and the runner ups and the voters!

 

[mad orc]

There was a time a few years ago when the HistorybookAAR of the year seemed like a legendary award to me. I saw some of my most fav AAR's winning it. Today I feel like I have joined their ranks!

Thankyou every one
Truly I feel blessed
This has been a team effort though
The awesome people who regularly comment on the AAR and help me in my downtime are also a part of this victory. I would like to thank @HyperTwerp once again for giving me this idea last year when I was all out of ideas

Congrats once again to all my voters and readers without whom this was impossible. Thanks for voting for me. We have put Jihad in the history books with this

 

[mad orc]

Also congrats @BigBadBob, @Wraith11B and all others who have won. Hip hip horray

 

[Tommy4ever]

Congrats Orc! Well deserved.

 

[mad orc]

Congrats Orc! Well deserved.

Thanks a lot man
Hearing this from the person who got me into AAR's in the first place(Serpents on the Nile) feels like a dream come true!!!

 

[TheButterflyComposer]

Wow, lots of nominees this year. That's good. Well done Mad Orc!

 

[diskoerekto]

Congratulations to all the authors and voters, and thanks for the organizers!

 

[Nikolai]

Well done all! What a rooster of great AARs! And thanks to hose who voted for me.

 

[roverS3]

Congratulations @mad orc , and to the two podium finishers. I'm impressed by the sheer number of nominees, and by the fact that @Wraith11B found himself on the podium in a category where Hoi3 is somewhat underrepresented. Great effort all around, history books are fun, and few more so than those on the AAR forums.

 

[El Pip]

Congratulations to our undeserved winners, may you choke upon your stolen glories. No, I'm not bitter at all about losing. Why do you ask? ( )