Congratulations again @Sirdramaticus .Has it been more than 6 months since I won??? Wow. Now the pressure is on to find another fan. Thank you to @son of liberty @StrategyGameEnthusiast for their shout outs @Cora Giantkiller, I’m so glad you enjoy my comments. I enjoy your writing.
@Chac1, thank you for the nomination. You might be able to lure me to the CK2 forum. I loved that game and am amazed people are still posting actively there. My favorite AARs from the CK2 forums were a song of Wessex written by @coz1, before Plantagenet written by @JabberJock14, and a very strange one where the author had a great sense of humor and an obsession with tej. Do you have any favorite narrative AARs from CK2?
The CK2 sub-forum is still quite active. It may not be as busy as CK3 or EUIV, but a liveliness remains.
As this is a very popular thread, in answering your question, I would point folks to the 2025 Q1 AARland Choice Awards (the ACAs). Many folks have posted ballots there with deserving AARs from all over AARland. My personal choices for CK2 are on my ballot. You too are invited (along with anyone else who reads AARs) to vote for your favorites in a variety of categories.
My narrative favorites include:
The Sons of Ragnar Lodbrok by @Lord Durham , a revival and conclusion (perhaps?) of a long dormant AAR;
Blackadder by @dmurgell , a new comedic AAR with not that many chapters yet, so easy to settle into this funny one;
Wings of Faith, Wings of Fury by @Superstorm , a long-running well-written history book-style AAR; and
although not really a narrative, Blood and Empire by @Bullfilter is a classic gameplay AAR and one of the best of that type.
Unfortunately, my ballot was too short to mention all of these. You will notice there are more than a handful of other interesting history book and gameplay AARs in the CK2 sub-forum too.
Also, I hope you will allow me to mention my own narrative Lost Seasons of the Danes. If that narrative is too long, you might be interested in the shorter AARs which are on hiatus that are mentioned in my signature.
Happy reading if you decide to sample the CK2 sub-forum (along with all the rest).
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