Hannibal X: I can’t remember exactly when the mod began so it could've been 4 July but if I started the game before 4 July then it was somewhere in the beginning of the AAR and since I loathe rereading my material I’ll only suggest that if I mentioned it, it was somewhere in the first two or three chapters. If you mean the end of the war it was 30 April 1778 in the AAR but in the game it was actually a month earlier; I made the alterations to allow for news of French involvement to reach America.
A few years after I signed peace with Britain, Spain ended up taking pieces of Louisiana and Canada. France ended with a white peace. Soon after I bought Louisiana from Spain and built forts all throughout the country while ramping up my military. A few years after the truce with GB expired I declared war again, stealing away the midwestern provinces. Toward mid-1790's I decided to go to war against Spain and ended up overrunning everything Spain owned in the Western Hemisphere. No matter what, the Spanish wouldn’t accept peace. This was why I stopped playing in 1801.
To all: Due to the low amount of interest I’ve decided against giving an in-depth epilogue but I gave a recap of the US from 1778 as a response to Hannibal X.
In the upcoming version (American Enhancement Mod 1.3) not only will surviving be tougher (I made it seem tougher than it was in the AAR) but some of the glaring problems I noticed (due to the vanilla version with Spain not wanting to make peace in spite of my occupation of all their North, Central and South American provinces) have been remedied.
In all honestly, I expected this AAR to trump my other projects, especially since they’ve largely been failures, excepting of course, the Ireland project. Should I choose to do another history book AAR (no plans for it right now) I’ll do it like the others where I write a little and slap a few pics onto the post.
Historical accuracy? Surprisingly there was plenty accurate throughout the AAR since I only went a few years into the game. A few things, like the Louisiana Militia, was largely made up and that was the only complete embellishment. I tried maintaining the historical traits of the characters, phrases, etc. so I hope I accomplished that with some truth.
To all who’ve stuck around, thanks for doing so but this was one of those rare AARs I wrote for me so even if no one would’ve been reading, I would’ve plugged ahead anyway. In an age when its fashionable to attack America, I thought it refreshing to release something like this project.
Future projects:
Ryuku: The Land of the About to be Annexed: It was talked about toward the end of my Ireland project that I would do an MMP2 (when it came out) AAR about Ryuku. Going at the speed I’d like, it’d almost have to be a gameplay AAR and I’m a little worn on that style. Whether or not I do it will largely depend on how I’m feeling about the gameplay genre when MMP2 is released. So the project is in question.
It never rains in space...: This is my CK AAR. I’ve been able to create a way on how to incorporate space with the action in CK. I’ve even been playing with the idea of presenting it on youtube as a type of “Radio AAR.” If I decide to do it this way the stories will be the same but there will be minor alterations. Expect the written version to be released sometime in late October - early November. The Radio version TBA.
The Algiers Narrative, still untitled: I’ve finished the basic outline and have begun fleshing out the characters. If you read any of the old narrative have no fear because this one will be different. Some characters are being removed, some added and there is a clear and definite end. Expect the release of this to reach AARland early September.
A Victoria AAR?: I’ve been playing with the idea over the last week or so about doing a Victoria AAR and no, it has nothing to do with the large void that’s known as “I’m Gonna Be IN PictAARs.” Instead, I’ve decided on going with a proper nation in Vicky Rev with the VIP mod. I’ll be guiding you through the fate of Texas using a very interesting way that I don’t think has ever been done before in AARland. To be released sometime in mid-late July if I have the game completed by the end of June. If it isn’t completed in June, expect a late August - early September release.
The Death of Vaudeville: This was going to be the continuation of the Algiers AAR into Victoria but I decided against the project after playing roughly three decades into the game. I’ll go into specifics when PictAARs has ended.