Well its sort of time to give up my very first award ... sigh.
In addition to the pleasure of all the nice comments (cheques are in the post) one of the real delights of this was feeling obligated to read around the forums well away from my usual haunts (a wierd mix of HOI3 and CK at the moment). The sheer variety of styles, approaches and countries is amazing.
Still since I apparently can't just nominate
AARLand, it seems I need to choose.
Well one I seriously enjoyed was
JDMS Etruria: Forging an Empire, its short, the writing is superb and he lost. Fantastic stuff. Having just started writing an AAR that is as slightly thematic rather than just broken up into discrete time periods, I have a small inkling into how much work
Karelian must have put into his
Prisoners of Silence. One thing, and this particularly affects WW2 era AARs, we as gamers and writers tend to forget is both the reality of those events and the wider context that sits outside the game engine.
EvilFishTank's brilliant UK AAR
The World After Appeasement more than compensates for this common oversight.
Anyway, after rambling longer than the average Oscar speech, I do have a firm nominee, its brilliantly written, utterly engaging, and places the game events into context, I leave you with
...
Daemonofdecay's Ottoman EU3 AAR
The Sublime State. If you've not read it yet - trundle over there and enjoy
.