what would you think of.

[NERFGEN]

Well an Aar but one in which eeveryone who wishes can post the results of one particular action in depth.

For example:

instead of posting a huge Aar of how the norwegians prepare for war against the germans in 1940 have an Aar of the specific battle for.. say .. Oslo, in depth, with pics or not, but only one , huge .. most important battle for the campaign.and then stop.
Maybe come back to it when there is another such battle.

just a thought if you dont like it you can hit me.. provided you can find me.

Maybe a place where people can test their ability to write and see if they really wanna embark upon a grand campaign Aar.

Maybe also a chance for those who wish to do those scenarios in Hoi2 and still write Aars about them

 

[Razor]

That could be an interesting idea. But I guess there has to be a full game AAR as background to the battles?

 

[Gul Brown]

So an AAR, based on one battle- if done right its an interesting idea. AAR means after action report , nowhere in therre does it say it has to be about a whole game.

 

[Razor]

So an AAR, based on one battle- if done right its an interesting idea. AAR means after action report , nowhere in therre does it say it has to be about a whole game.

Yes i know, but having a full game AAR as background to a set of battle AAR's might keep the battle AAR's in an apprehensible context. Just a suggestion.

 

[Gul Brown]

Yes i know, but having a full game AAR as background to a set of battle AAR's might keep the battle AAR's in an apprehensible context. Just a suggestion.

Yes ofcourse there would have to be a background to the battle- but telling us about a game and then showing the battle that won you a war say "Stalingrad" could be interesting.

 

[unmerged(3435)]

I think it's a fine idea - I'd suggest the best way to implement it would be to start a 'Guest post request' thread where those writers keen on giving one engagement a detailed treatment could chat to those (like me, unfortunately)
who have an exisiting AAR but lack the time or the confidence or whatever to give individual battles detailed attention.

I'd certainly be happy to collaborate in that way if anyone was interested, as I'd love to see how far my imagination of the action matched other people's...

For example there have been several hard fought battles in my AAR between Japanese Marines and american armoured forces in the Pacific - not strategically crucial in a Stalingrad way, but fascinating to imagine, and pretty good material for anyone who wanted to try their hand at describing a limited engagement.

What do you think?

 

[NERFGEN]

thanx all for the feedback..

I'm not thinking of "Stalingrad or bust " battles only.
Any engagement that has a unique outcome or one that tickles your imagination.


So to resume:

a) make 1 thread called .. your unique battles somthing.
b) everyone interested could pot his battle (with his own style)
c) comments by experienced writaars or watever.

In this thread ;
every battle must have a background and an epilogue.

i.e. which country against which country/alliance -> time of the war -> events that lead to it -> aar proper -> what happened after-> impact of this particular battle in the course of the war.

Say all in one post however long it might be.

Open to suggestions ofc.

 

[CatKnight]

Hm. With everyone posting a battle, followed by inviting critques, doesn't that make this a focused version of Guess the Author?

Not that I think this is a bad idea, but I wonder if some of the details could use fine tuning.

For example, a 'leader' could talk about the general course of a war or campaign. Then guest authors could come in and write about specific battles or maneuvers.

If instead you wanted to welcome any battle..hm, what would be your aim? A battle-writing workshop?

 

[unmerged(10971)]

We used to have a thread devoted specifically to AAR battles. "Fields of Honour" I believe it was called... Good heavens, that was a long time ago though!

 

[coz1]

Yeah, JM - I tried to find that earlier today and gave up it was so long ago. But it's back there...buried beneath time and many, many threads.

 

[unmerged(68451)]

Yeah, JM - I tried to find that earlier today and gave up it was so long ago. But it's back there...buried beneath time and many, many threads.

Field of Honour: Tales of Blood & Glory

 

[NERFGEN]

might just revive that thread since its already there.

Anyway since i started this i will post a small battle report soon.

We'll see if it works or not.

 

[NERFGEN]

After having started I decided to modify 1 rule.

1 post is not enough so I will give it 3 posts. 1 for the prologue 1 for the Aar and one for the .. well .. u guessed it.. the em-pilogue.. lol

 

[unmerged(62343)]

Have you started the thread yet? I'll take a look and see if I want to jump on this.

 

[NERFGEN]

Not yet.. I'm dividing my time between the research and the work (i still need to keep my job )
I kept doing my research at work so i sent me loads of emails with loadsa documents (.doc) at home. Then I remembered I dont have word installed at home.. so here I am at work trying to figure out how to put things together.

I got one noob question tho.. Where do i find HOI2 screenies? I.E. which folder?

 

[CatKnight]

Um....how did you create them? F11? If so, then they should be in your HOI main folder as "screenshot1.bmp", "screenshot2.bmp", etc.

 

[NERFGEN]

thanx catknight.. i was thinking of after I created them ^^

but I thought u had to push prtscrn to make them .. so I got no screenies to work with for the prologue and part of theaar..