The 2022 Yearly AARland Year-end AwAARds

[coz1]

15 voters now! And I'll allow all the way through the 5th of February to get 5 more (or extra to that.) I want to see at least 20 voters so let us see some last minute voices. I can tell you that some races are tight and others are pretty much runaways (in fact, one that seemed a runaway is now a very tight race!) Every single vote matters and the more we have the better and more accurate the results. With five days left (including this one) I believe we can hit that mark. So come on AARland, let's get those votes in and support so many of the great writAARs and AARs that we all love. Vote, vote, vote and let's get to at least 20!

[To add - I have been tabulating as we go, so if anyone decides to change their vote, which is perfectly fine, please let me know either in this thread or via PM. I thank you.]

 

[Nikolai]

- Comedy AAR of the Year:

1. Born to Breed by @Peter Ebbesen
2. Avon Las Observes by @Midnite Duke
3. Ged's Existential Nightmare by @TheButterflyComposer
4. Imperial Cheese by @TheButterflyComposer
5.
6.

This one is fairly straight forward. It's an award for comedy. This can be done in many ways. I will leave it to you to decide what is funny and what is not and if it is well done.

- Gameplay AAR of the Year:

1. Stellaris Wars: A Nemesis Ironman Saga II - Rebellion: The Imperium at War by @Arithmetician
2. Avon Las Observes by @Midnite Duke
3.
4.
5.
6.

Another fairly straight forward category. This is to award the straight gameplay AAR. There can be some crossover here, so feel free to consider it however you wish.

- Historybook AAR of the Year:

1. Wings of Faith. Wings of Fury by @Superstorm
2. Annutio Vobis by @slothinator
3. Superior Arguments by @eoncommander
4. Relight the Flames by @Tommy4ever
5. HaMaadimi Imperium by @CBR JGWRR
6. Sons of Israel by @Cora Giantkiller

This one could get complicated, but really this is the next step from gameplay. Instead of "I did this" it is now, "They did this". Classic history book reads as if a good history book. A survey or more in depth book, it is not one that reads as historical fiction. Though again...tastes and all.

- Narrative AAR of the Year:

1. Wars of the Roses by @coz1
2. Crowns of the Levant by @Werther
3. The Last Heroes by @Macavity116
4. Shattered Glass by @Von Acturus
5. Songs of the Saiban by @Chilango2
6.

This is for the fully narrative work that reads as if a novel or short story of historical fiction. Some works have different sections and if it uses such, it is available for here.

- Megacampaign AAR of the Year:

1. In the Shadow of the Ancients by @Tommy4ever
2. The Russian Path by @Gamov_Andrew
3. Moving past Miracle - Settling the Void (Gothic Megacampaign, part 3) by @alscon
4.
5.
6.

This category is for the megacampaign as the title suggests. There are some that have lasted years and some that are done within a year. What is eligible here is the portion that was written within the time constraints listed in the above post. If there are multiple works for the same megacampaign written within the eligible period, please note this in your vote.

- Multiplayer/Interactive AAR of the Year:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

This is a combined category because there are not as many of these written like the others, but they are still very much a part of our culture here. Multiplayer is just that, an AAR written by two or more people from a game played by two or more people. Interactive is one that calls the reader in to assist making decisions either in the game or the work itself.

- Graphics/AARtist of the Year:
1. @JerseyGiants88
2. @Werther
3. @ibicko
4. @Wraith11B
5. @Peter Ebbesen
6. @Arithmetician

This is for the writAAR that puts in special effort in presentation for their graphics. Could be pictures, videos, screenshot usage and manipulation or anything other that adds visually to the written word offered. Ideally this would be for one writAAR and one work, but some of us do have more than one. I've been liberal in the tabulation here so I'll leave it to you how you vote.

- Character of the Year:

1. Sverker in Born to Breed by Peter Ebbesen
2. Viola in Born to Breed by Peter Ebbesen
3.
4.
5.
6.

This is for a specific and singular character within an AAR. Please do not vote for "the characters in" but rather a specific character in an AAR. Many times there are multiples, but please do try and single it down.

- Newcomer of the Year:

1. @Werther
2. @Von Acturus
3. @Side
4. @Quinzal
5. @RustyHunter
6. @Koweth

This is what it says it is, but some clarification. It does not necessarily mean someone that just joined the forum, but rather is a newcomer around these parts of AARland. If you joined 20 years ago but just wrote your first AAR within the last year, that is eligible. It is about joining into what we do here.

- Writer of the Year:

1. @Macavity116
2. @Tommy4ever
3. @Werther
4. @Midnite Duke
5. @Arithmetician
6. @Superstorm

Here is the place to vote for a person and not an AAR. Those that have one and those that have five...all are eligible. You are voting for the writAAR you think did the most impressive or favorite writing throughout this past year.

- AAR of the Year

1. The Last Heroes by @Macavity116
2. Wars of the Roses by @coz1
3. Crowns of the Levant by @Werther
4. Wings of Faith. Wings of Fury by @Superstorm
5. Shattered Glass by @Von Acturus
6. Ged's Existential Nightmare by @TheButterflyComposer

And finally, here we vote for all works together. It's the Best Picture category. We've awarded our actors and cinematographers, art designers and costume...now the big one. The one where history competes with gameplay, interactive with narrative...all down the line. This is for what you consider the very best or most favorite work regardless of game or style that you've read this past year. Pretty simple, right?

 

[Nikolai]

Seeing how many votes I got from @jak7139 (thank you kindly!) I got curious and counted AARs I've done that had updates in 2022. I got to...9. Nine AARs. Eight of them started in 2022. Heh.

 

[Bullfilter]

Seeing how many votes I got from @jak7139 (thank you kindly!) I got curious and counted AARs I've done that had updates in 2022. I got to...9. Nine AARs. Eight of them started in 2022. Heh.

You’re worse than me! I only had six coming or going

 

[Nikolai]

You’re worse than me! I only had six coming or going

It might be my most active year. I count 38 AARs done by me since CK1, 36 of them from 2015 onwards. So that's over a fifth of my entire production, in one calendar year.

 

[roverS3]

As I've had very little time in the last month to dedicate to the forum, be it reading, writing, commenting, or participating in awAARds, it's a small miracle I managed to get this done. I'd like to of course thank all those who voted, in particular those who voted for my work despite my lack of regularity in the past year. I haven't been able to properly catch up on many of the AARs listed below and hope to do so at some point. These awAARds are a reminder of just how much great work is out there. If only I could find the time to read it... Thanks @coz1 for organising the YAYA's and a great 2023 on and off the forum everyone!

- Comedy AAR of the Year:

1. A Gentleman's War by @Eurasia

- Gameplay AAR of the Year:

1. Der Adler, der Wolf, und die Sonne: Die Geschichte des Stahlpakts by @Wraith11B
2. Quick and Dirty 2: A Soviet Resurgence and WW3 (HOI3 - March 1944 start) by @Bullfilter
3. Days of Infamy - Japan BICE 11.2 by @Jorath13

- Historybook AAR of the Year:

1. The Butterfly Effect: A British AAR by @El Pip
2. King of Kings - An Iran HPP AAR by @RustyHunter
3. Echoes of A New Tomorrow: Life after Revolution in the Commonwealth of Britain by @DensleyBlair
4. A Royal Prerogative - A UK AAR by @Le Jones
5. Italian Ambitions: A Florence AAR by @JerseyGiants88
6. Road of Queens - CKII India AAR by @Eurasia

- Narrative AAR of the Year:

1. Talking Turkey: Alternate History from 1936 by @Bullfilter
2. The Thorn of the Rose by @stnylan

- Multiplayer/Interactive AAR of the Year:

1. Avon Las Observes by @Midnite Duke

- Graphics/AARtist of the Year:
1. @Bullfilter
2. @JerseyGiants88
3. @DensleyBlair
4. @Eurasia
5. @El Pip
7. @Le Jones

- Character of the Year:

1. Cennet, in Talking Turkey by @Bullfilter
2. Field Marshall Melchett in A Gentleman's War by @Eurasia
3. Albert in The Thorn of the Rose by @stnylan
4. Simonetta de' Pazzi in Italian Ambitions by @JerseyGiants88
5. David Lewis in Echoes of A New Tomorrow by @DensleyBlair
6. Archbishop Lang, in A Royal Prerogative by @Le Jones

- Newcomer of the Year:

1. @RustyHunter

- Writer of the Year:

1. @Midnite Duke
2. @Bullfilter
3. @El Pip
4. @DensleyBlair
5. @Le Jones
6. @Eurasia

- AAR of the Year

1. Talking Turkey: Alternate History from 1936 by @Bullfilter
2. The Butterfly Effect: A British AAR by @El Pip
3. A Royal Prerogative - A UK AAR by @Le Jones
4. Echoes of A New Tomorrow: Life after Revolution in the Commonwealth of Britain by @DensleyBlair
5. A Gentleman's War by @Eurasia
6. King of Kings - An Iran HPP AAR by @RustyHunter

 

[TheButterflyComposer]

You’re worse than me! I only had six coming or going

...check check...

I did four, and 3 completed. A very, very odd year.

 

[Arithmetician]

I’ll see if I can squeeze in a vote this weekend. I had been meaning too (especially after some people were thoughtful enough to nominate some of my AARs), but I got distracted by stuff happening IRL.

 

[jak7139]

Seeing how many votes I got from @jak7139 (thank you kindly!) I got curious and counted AARs I've done that had updates in 2022. I got to...9. Nine AARs. Eight of them started in 2022. Heh.

Vic 3 has probably helped a lot with that. 6 AARs in that game alone.

 

[Superstorm]

I'll get my votes in on Saturday! Been meaning to but life has been busy, so I'll sit myself down and take stock of the AARs I've been reading.

 

[coz1]

Excellent! With 2 more voters, we are up to 17 and a promise of 2 others after that. If we can get at least to 20, we can avoid the dreaded extension and see our winners sooner. Still a lot of tight races so every single vote counts right now! There is really only one runaway contest (and that's just because there are so few votes in the category.)

Feel free to encourage others to vote in your own AARs (without any campaigning, of course.) 4 more days to vote including this one. Vote, vote, vote!

 

[Eurasia]

Comedy AAR of the Year:

1. Avon Las Observes by @Midnite Duke
2. Imperial Cheese: The Improbably Incredible Rise of the Italian Empire by @TheButterflyComposer
3. Two idiots discover America - A multiplayer Castile AAR by @SibCDC and @Tom D.


- Gameplay AAR of the Year:

1. Talking Turkey: Alternate History from 1936 by @Bullfilter
2. Blut und Schlacht (Blood and Battle): A Learner’s Saga by @Bullfilter




- Historybook AAR of the Year:

1. 'Odin' and Stalin's Secret Committee by @roverS3
2. Empire for Liberty: America in the Long Nineteenth Century by @volksmarschall



- Narrative AAR of the Year:

1. The Wars of the Roses by @coz1
2. The People of the Forest by @Dunaden
3. Savages of Utah - A White Legs HOI4 Old World Blues Mod AAR by @RustyHunter
4. The Dragons Realm - A House Targaryen AAR by @streaker77



- Writer of the Year:

1. @RustyHunter
2. @roverS3
3. @Bullfilter
4. @Side



- AAR of the Year

1. Talking Turkey: Alternate History from 1936 by @Bullfilter
2. 'Odin' and Stalin's Secret Committee by @roverS3
3. Die Wacht Im Raum - A Kaiserreich Stellaris AAR by @Side
4. Savages of Utah - A White Legs HOI4 Old World Blues Mod AAR by @RustyHunter

 

[Midnite Duke]

Thank you, @coz1 for taking the time to sponsor this labor of love and extending the deadline for slowpokes like me.

Comedy AAR of the Year:

1. Born to Breed by @Peter Ebbesen​

2. Suenik Reloaded by @iain_a_wilson​

3. Louping All Over Aquitaine by @coz1​

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Historybook AAR of the Year:

1. Butterfly Effect by @El Pip​

2. Breaker of Chains by @Thaiga​

3. Echoes of a New Tomorrow by @DensleyBlair​

4. Song of the Karlings by @LPDK 356​

5. The Rise of Russia by @HistoryDude​

6. Wings of Faith by @Superstorm​

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Gameplay AAR of the Year:

1. Blut und Schlacht by @Bullfilter (Special achievement award for being Russia's most successful five-year plan.)​

2. Road of Queens by @Eurasia​

3. Legacy of Uhtred by @Dunaden​

4. King of Kings by @RustyHunter​

5. Talking Turkey by @Bullfilter​

Narrative AAR of the Year:

1. Lions of Olomouc by @Revan86​

2. Crowns of the Levant by @Werther​

3. The Dragons Realm @streaker77​

4. To the Strongest by @Eludio​

5. Shattered Glass by @Von Acturus​

6. Secret History of the Bargas by @filcat​

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Multiplayer/Interactive AAR of the Year:

1. The Last Days of the Han by @Zamarak500​

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Megacampaign AAR of the Year: (I am going to list as series instead of individual work.)

1. Stormbreakers series by @Macavity116 (I do not know if this qualifies as it only uses one Paradox game. My second special achievement as he has spent over half his life creating this world.)​

2. Assyrian series by @Tommy4ever​

3. Gothia series by @alscon​

4. Polish series by @Nikolai​

5. Tagalog series by @Black Watch​

6. Sagaria series by @Sriseru​

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Graphics/Artist of the Year:

1. @Thaiga​

2. @Werther​

3. @JerseyGiants88​

4. @Peter Ebbesen​

5. @Bullfilter​

6. @roverS3​

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Characters of the Year:

1. Botta/Czenzi from Lions of Olomouc (the world's cutest couple)​

2. Akira Robinson from the Stormbreakers (Paradox was named after her)​

3. Viola from Born to Breed​

4. Drone from The Shattered Glass​

5. Henry VI from War of the Roses by @coz1​

6. Pepin from Song of the Karlings​

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Newcomer of the Year:

1. @Werther​

2. @Von Acturus​

3. @RustyHunter​

4. @Senior Chamoy​

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Writer of the Year:

1. @Tommy4ever​

2. @Eurasia​

3. @Nikolai (my lifetime achievement for his writing, commenting and award work for over 20 years)​

4. @El Pip​

5. @Bullfilter​

6. @coz1​

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AAR of the Year:

1. Lions of Olomouc​

2. Stormbreaker series​

3. Crowns of the Levant​

4. Butterfly Effect​

5. Born to Breed​

6. Blut und Schlacht​

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Everyone, thank you for allowing me to be a part of this wonderful community. @coz1, hopefully you can figure out what I intend to be voting for and I hope that I did not break too many rules.

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[Macavity116]

@Midnite Duke you've made my morning. I don't think I've ever had multiple characters nominated for Character of the Year before.

I've got no idea if we are allowed to nominate a whole AAR series rather than a single entry. Maybe @coz1 can shed some light on the matter.

 

[Nikolai]

3. @Nikolai (my lifetime achievement for his writing, commenting and award work for over 20 years)

*blush*

Thanks!

 

[coz1]

@Midnite Duke you've made my morning. I don't think I've ever had multiple characters nominated for Character of the Year before.

I've got no idea if we are allowed to nominate a whole AAR series rather than a single entry. Maybe @coz1 can shed some light on the matter.

I tend to count any vote for a whole or part of a megacampaign series as one as long as the section(s) mentioned was within the eligible dates.

That said, a megacampaign is different than different parts of a series all within the same game (as example, my Wessex series while 4 different books would not have counted as a megacampaign as it was all within CK2.)

And with 2 more votes, we are at 19! Surely we can get past that 20 voter threshold by end of Sunday. Keep it coming, AARland. Vote, vote, vote!

 

[Historywhiz]

Alright, as the AAR Fan of the Week for this week, I suppose that I am sort of obligated to do this, despite not being too terribly versed on all the titles going on right now. I am also declining to cast a vote for Multiplayer AAR and New Person due to lack of familiarity.

- Comedy AAR of the Year:

1. Imperial Cheese: The Improbably Incredible Rise of the Italian Empire by @TheButterflyComposer
2. Ged's Existential Nightmare by @TheButterflyComposer
3. Louping All Over Aquitaine, by @coz1
4. Rise of the Ursine Empire: a BEAAR megacampaign by @birdboy2000
5. Two idiots discover America - A multiplayer Castile AAR by @SibCDC and @Tom D.
6. Born to Breed by @Peter Ebbesen

- Gameplay AAR of the Year:

1. This is where it ends – @filcat
2. Poles Apart – an HOI4 Ahistory – @Bullfilter
3. Blut und Schlacht (Blood and Battle): A Learner’s Saga by @Bullfilter

- Historybook AAR of the Year:

1. The Kingdom of Jerusalem by @Werther
2. Wings of Faith, Wings of Fury - A Slavic Pagan Revival AAR by @Superstorm
3. En la Sombra de Morazan – @Zeogludon
4. Italian Ambitions: A Florence AAR by @JerseyGiants88
5. Song of the Karlings: Karloman's Legacy by @LPDK 356
6. Empire for Liberty: America in the Long Nineteenth Century by @volksmarschall


- Narrative AAR of the Year:

1. A Royal Prerogative - A UK AAR by @Le Jones
2. Crowns of the Levant by @Werther
3. The Wars of the Roses by @coz1
4. To the Strongest – @Eludio
5. Die Wacht Im Raum - A Kaiserreich Stellaris AAR by @Side
6. Annuntio Vobis: A Papal History of Italy by @slothinator


- Megacampaign AAR of the Year:

1. In the Shadow of the Ancients - An Assyrian AAR by @Tommy4ever
2. A Settled Steppe - The War-Saint’s Legacy by @alscon
3. Chronicles of Poland by @Nikolai
4. Die Klingen des Himmels by @RedTemplar
5.
6.

- Graphics/AARtist of the Year:

1. @Werther
2. @SibCDC
3.
4.
5.
6.


- Character of the Year:

1. Alkaios, as created by @Eludio
2. Sir Topham Hatt, as portrayed by @TheButterflyComposer
3. Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, as portrayed by @coz1
4. Empress Agathe, as created by @Werther
5. Velky Volhv Havel, as created by @Superstorm
6. Walter Monckton, as portrayed by @Le Jones

- Writer of the Year:

1. @TheButterflyComposer
2. @Werther
3. @Le Jones
4. @coz1
5. @Tommy4ever
6. @Zeogludon

- AAR of the Year

1. A Royal Prerogative - A UK AAR by @Le Jones
2. Crowns of the Levant by @Werther
3. Imperial Cheese: The Improbably Incredible Rise of the Italian Empire by @TheButterflyComposer
4. The Wars of the Roses by @coz1
5. Wings of Faith, Wings of Fury - A Slavic Pagan Revival AAR by @Superstorm
6. In the Shadow of the Ancients - An Assyrian AAR by @Tommy4ever

 

[Arithmetician]

(So, real life has kept me busy for a while, so I haven’t read that many AARs, and I have only looked over ones for Stellaris, but I felt I should still make some nominations here. Without voting for myself or my own AARs)

- Comedy AAR of the Year:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

This one is fairly straight forward. It's an award for comedy. This can be done in many ways. I will leave it to you to decide what is funny and what is not and if it is well done.

- Gameplay AAR of the Year:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Another fairly straight forward category. This is to award the straight gameplay AAR. There can be some crossover here, so feel free to consider it however you wish.

- Historybook AAR of the Year:

1. Die Wacht Im Raum - A Kaiserreich Stellaris AAR by @Side
2. Superior Arguments: by @eoncommander
3.
4.
5.
6.

This one could get complicated, but really this is the next step from gameplay. Instead of "I did this" it is now, "They did this". Classic history book reads as if a good history book. A survey or more in depth book, it is not one that reads as historical fiction. Though again...tastes and all.

- Narrative AAR of the Year:

1. The Last Heroes (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/the-last-heroes.1504056/ ) by @Macavity116
2. Shattered Glass: A Narrative Stellaris AAR by @Von Acturus
3. Songs of the Saiiban- A Poetic AAR by @Chilango2
4.
5.
6.

This is for the fully narrative work that reads as if a novel or short story of historical fiction. Some works have different sections and if it uses such, it is available for here.

- Megacampaign AAR of the Year:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

This category is for the megacampaign as the title suggests. There are some that have lasted years and some that are done within a year. What is eligible here is the portion that was written within the time constraints listed in the above post. If there are multiple works for the same megacampaign written within the eligible period, please note this in your vote.

- Multiplayer/Interactive AAR of the Year:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

This is a combined category because there are not as many of these written like the others, but they are still very much a part of our culture here. Multiplayer is just that, an AAR written by two or more people from a game played by two or more people. Interactive is one that calls the reader in to assist making decisions either in the game or the work itself.

- Graphics/AARtist of the Year:
1. @Side (Die Wacht Im Raum)
2 @Von Acturus
3.
4.
5.
6.

This is for the writAAR that puts in special effort in presentation for their graphics. Could be pictures, videos, screenshot usage and manipulation or anything other that adds visually to the written word offered. Ideally this would be for one writAAR and one work, but some of us do have more than one. I've been liberal in the tabulation here so I'll leave it to you how you vote.

- Character of the Year:

1. Linden in Die Wacht Im Raum by @Side
2.@Macavity116’s portrayal of Senator Eerabik in The Last Heroes. (Since while I may have first created Eerabik, @Macavity116 has his own spin on the character that was so fun to read)
3.
4.
5.
6.

This is for a specific and singular character within an AAR. Please do not vote for "the characters in" but rather a specific character in an AAR. Many times there are multiples, but please do try and single it down.

- Newcomer of the Year:

1. @Von Acturus
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

This is what it says it is, but some clarification. It does not necessarily mean someone that just joined the forum, but rather is a newcomer around these parts of AARland. If you joined 20 years ago but just wrote your first AAR within the last year, that is eligible. It is about joining into what we do here.

- Writer of the Year:

1. @Macavity116
2.@Side
3. @Chilango2
4.
5.
6.

Here is the place to vote for a person and not an AAR. Those that have one and those that have five...all are eligible. You are voting for the writAAR you think did the most impressive or favorite writing throughout this past year.

- AAR of the Year

1. The Last Heroes (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/the-last-heroes.1504056/ ) by @Macavity116
2. Die Wacht Im Raum - A Kaiserreich Stellaris AAR by @Side
3.
4.
5.
6.

(I’ll submit this for now, to make sure I get it in before the voting deadline. But congratulations to everyone who contributes to the AAR community, and thanks to every who has commented on my own AARs, even if you’re not specifically mentioned above!)

 

[coz1]

Well, folks - we've done it! With two more voters, we have hit 21!

In fact, I went back and checked the records and with 21 voters we have equaled the first year (for the AARs of 2017) in numbers.

Can we break that record? I think we can. Just under 48 hours left (as I won't officially cut off voting until Monday morning my time) so still plenty of time. There remain some very tight races and I cannot even try to count the number of AARs listed between the categories. It is a lot!

So submit those final ballots and get ready for two weeks of reveals. While time remains...vote, vote, vote!

 

[Superstorm]

(Just in time! Not read as much as I’d like but filled in the bits that I could. Good luck to all!)

Comedy AAR of the Year:

1. Born to Breed: House of the Prophets by @Peter Ebbesen
2. Ged's Existential Nightmare by @TheButterflyComposer

- Gameplay AAR of the Year:

1. Blut und Schlacht (Blood and Battle): A Learner’s Saga by @Bullfilter
2. 'Odin' and Stalin's Secret Committee by @roverS3
3. Poles Apart – an HOI4 Ahistory by @Bullfilter (HoI4)
4. Road of Queens - CKII India AAR by @Eurasia


- Narrative AAR of the Year:

1. The Last Heroes by @Macavity116
2. Shattered Glass: A Narrative Stellaris AAR by @Von Acturus (Stellaris)
2. Savages of Utah - A White Legs HOI4 Old World Blues Mod AAR by @RustyHunter (HoI4)
3. The Legacy of Uhtred by @Dunaden

- Graphics/AARtist of the Year:

1. @Tommy4ever
2. @Von Acturus
3. @Side

- Newcomer of the Year:

1. @Von Acturus

- Writer of the Year:

1. @Bullfilter
2. @Macavity116
3. @Eurasia
4. @RustyHunter

- AAR of the Year

1. Blut und Schlacht (Blood and Battle): A Learner’s Saga by @Bullfilter
2. The Last Heroes by @Macavity116
3. The Legacy of Uhtred by @Dunaden
4. Ged's Existential Nightmare by @TheButterflyComposer
5. Savages of Utah - A White Legs HOI4 Old World Blues Mod AAR by @RustyHunter (HoI4)
6. Shattered Glass: A Narrative Stellaris AAR by @Von Acturus (Stellaris)