The 2019 Gameplay AAR of the Year is...

[coz1]

Every single one of our 18 voters put voice to this category and offer up a huge 34 different AARs! There was a definite winner, but 2nd through 4th were pretty close when it came down to the final counting. Our winner is a repeat from last year and is...

Blut und Schlacht (Blood and Battle): A Learner’s Saga by @Bullfilter​

A most worthy winner and definitely one of the favorites at this forum! Many congratulations for besting these other great works. 2nd place goes to...

Road of Queens - CKII India AAR by @Eurasia ​

And then 3rd place goes to...

American AAR : AI Experiments In HoI3 also by @Eurasia ​

There was not much separating these two works and likely competed against themselves. Such is the lot of a writAAR creating two great works at once.

The rest of our field is no less considerable (listed in order of the vote):

Lancaster: The King in the North by @TheButterflyComposer

'Odin' and Stalin's Secret Committee by @roverS3

Towards Blue Skies - a "realistic" UNE story (with 170+ mods) by @Charger24

Patria, Justicia, y Libertad -- Synarchist Mexico AAR by @RedTemplar

Civis Romanus Sum (An EU-Rome Vae Victis AAR) by @Bullfilter

The Last Kingdom of Hen Ogledd - A 769 Strathclyde AAR by @Wysemage

Discoveries of the Hydari Imperium by @Nikolai

The World is our Oyster. Story of Portugal by @hjarg

Between Axis and Comintern: Romanian Survival (During Action Report) by @Alex Kernel

Power Broker Chaos: tag-jumping , great-power-jumbling AAR by @mackwolfe

The People of the Forest by @Dunaden

Superior Arguments: A Stellaris AAR by @slothinator

Pax Americana or Guarantor of Peace as USA (England start 1.26 on VH) by @mackwolfe

Baltic Lightning: a Grand Campaign AAR [HOI4 Branch] by @Centurial

Long Live the Permament Revolution! - a Trotskyist Soviet AAR. by @ThaHoward

The Tchikenthi Hive by @Smokez83

Rise of the Folkungs, A Nordic AAR by @streaker77

Rise From the Ashes — A 1.24 Byzantium AAR by @johnmyster

Whiteshirts of England: A History of the Hvitserk Dynasty of Jorvik AAR by @tpmcinty

The Age of Brass: A Spanish AAR by @RossN

Stellaris: Tale of the Sol Dominion by @scpour92

One night in Olbia... by @stnylan

Before Plantagenet – A House d’Anjou AAR by @JabberJock14

La Serenissima - The City of Fortune by @Crimson Lionheart

Lilies and Stripes - An Anjou Hungary AAR by @Sylas

The Grandest Duchy - A Luxembourg AAR by @jrgen3

The Red Star by @Dodge

Archery vs Muskets - No Mil Tech/No vassal swarm WC 1.28.3 (hard) by @Pureanger

Dreams of Covfefe - Criminal Megacorp AAR by @TheBromgrev

The Yellow Rose - A Texas AAR by @PresidentStorm

Praise the Rats: A Georgia AAR (936 A.D) by @Big Byzantine Blob​

Holy cow! That's a lot of AARs!! Good ones and worthy!

Many congratulations to all of these wonderful works that gained a vote and more and especially to Eurasia and indeed Bullfilter for the win! Quite the competition for this category!

 

[stnylan]

Many congratulations @Bullfilter - and @Eurasia for takign 2nd and 3rd.

 

[TheButterflyComposer]

Jesus Christ what is Lancaster doing in 4th place Over Odin? Then again, most of the others I've read and really enjoyed over the past year, and have much more interesting gameplay ideas/premises than mine. I personally recommend the US garunteeing world peace, an example of breaking a game at its finest, and the permanent revolution/apocalyptic nightmare of the Trotskey Russia AAR.

I guess I really need to write some more of it then...

 

[Eurasia]

Congrats to all the winners!

And as for my archnemesis, the other @Eurasia, I know where you live and I WILL find you!

 

[El Pip]

Congratulations to @Bullfilter and the @Eurasia twins. Your success at producing multiple high quality works at the same time, and on a reasonable schedule, is both impressive and depressing.

 

[DensleyBlair]

Congratulations! A really great contest.

 

[diskoerekto]

Congratulations my friend @Bullfilter for winning, everybody who were nominated or just voted! and thanks @coz1 for all the hard work!

 

[Nikolai]

Congratulations all! And especially to @Bullfilter and @Eurasia .

 

[roverS3]

Congratulations to the winners. Thanks to all those who voted. I'm honoured for my work to have been nominated in this category, let alone getting 4th place.

 

[Smokez83]

Congratulations @Bullfilter and to all other winners! Truly honoured to be included alongside such fantastic authors!