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Now this is surpsing...the last time I was nominated for this award was for Empire of Albion (twice)...my first AAR and 5 years ago. Good grief, time flies...
Imperial Cheese was an odd duck of an AAR, formulated from the original and swiftly aborted first idea of doing a tutorial Italy game (which now I think about it, I ended up doing many years later in CK3...huh), and the sudden and shocking turn my then-most recent AAR had taken towards embracing every single act of Paradox insanity given to me rather than writing around it as most do.
This led to both Ged's Existential Nightmare and Imperial Cheese, one of which is a fairly serviceable tutorial for how CK3 worked at launch...and the other is...not.
Ah now this idea of using zeppelins was hanging around in my head since A Royal Prerogative brought up the Hindenburg smashing into the 1936 Berlin Olympics and killing everyone.
I did not end up using that specific concept but once I realised how powerful the British AI was and how well they played in this game (and also how truly enormous the Royal Navy was by 1943), I turned the huge game air battle to sink it all into the grand finale of the AAR.
Um...
Well, it will certainly make you think twice about trusting the Americans, or underestimating the British...
I like to think my last few AARs have been more about how you might enjoy a paradox game, rather than how to actually play one. If you do want to actually learn HOI4 or CK2 and you like AARs, @Bullfilter did a whole series about that.
Anyway, thank you very much Macavity116. I'm not sure where you are based in the US but I hope the Mexicans and Canadians didn't invade it.
Thank you, all!
Imperial Cheese was an odd duck of an AAR, formulated from the original and swiftly aborted first idea of doing a tutorial Italy game (which now I think about it, I ended up doing many years later in CK3...huh), and the sudden and shocking turn my then-most recent AAR had taken towards embracing every single act of Paradox insanity given to me rather than writing around it as most do.
This led to both Ged's Existential Nightmare and Imperial Cheese, one of which is a fairly serviceable tutorial for how CK3 worked at launch...and the other is...not.
Ah now this idea of using zeppelins was hanging around in my head since A Royal Prerogative brought up the Hindenburg smashing into the 1936 Berlin Olympics and killing everyone.
I did not end up using that specific concept but once I realised how powerful the British AI was and how well they played in this game (and also how truly enormous the Royal Navy was by 1943), I turned the huge game air battle to sink it all into the grand finale of the AAR.
Um...
Well, it will certainly make you think twice about trusting the Americans, or underestimating the British...
I like to think my last few AARs have been more about how you might enjoy a paradox game, rather than how to actually play one. If you do want to actually learn HOI4 or CK2 and you like AARs, @Bullfilter did a whole series about that.
Anyway, thank you very much Macavity116. I'm not sure where you are based in the US but I hope the Mexicans and Canadians didn't invade it.
Thank you, all!
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Congratulations @TheButterflyComposer! Would someone please resuscitate @El Pip for @Macavity116 did not go to the great unchartered landscape of Stellaris? He went to somewhere that is even more unknown, the great genius of TBC.
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I for one am waiting to see what things are like once I retire from AAR writing month after next. I'll have a lot of free time on my hands to branch out to read other parts of the website. @El Pip might not survive.
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Thanks.
I suspect Macavity116 took a third option to both subvert expectation and strike at the heart of El Pip. Instead of Stellaris, HOI4...
Lots of interesting projects on at the moment. All the grand old HOI2 projects are confirmed complete or dead aside from The Butterfly Effect, HOI3 and 4 continue however, and EUIV continues to be the game that has the most original prompts.
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One of my better prompt ideas. Alas I know I will never have time to do it, I retain hope that someone else will.
As @nuclearslurpee would say, Coward.
Now we have proof positive you are being held prisoner. Are your captors treating you well?
At current progress I confidently expect to outlast the remnants of the great HOI3 projects as well. Probably HOI4 too if I'm honest.
In any event, congratulations indeed TBC on this stunning achievement. Winning the award is merely just reward for an excellent AAR, but to tempt Macavity out of the Stellaris incest pits is a feat for the ages.
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And it's probably not going to happen in my latest German game either! Ah...maybe that Swiss game I was toying with. Playing Switzerland before was incredibly boring, so perhaps the new DLC livens it up enough to ascend to Imperial Cheese levels? Who knows?
I'm pretty sure you finished all your HOI3 projects as well. The last few years have been a strange time in AARland.
I suppose this is the next stage in his dastardly plan to get me to play Stellaris and ruin that game for everyone as well...
Thanks!
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@TheButterflyComposer : High time for a new Showcase winner, no?
Righto, so I see CK3 has not been dished out in a while, and I also realise I have not played the thing at all since the end of Life of Brian...there's probably something significant in that, which bears investigation.
However, the subforum seems alive and well, and has put put some excellent stories both recently and long term. The incoming recipient received the award for the same AAR a year and a month ago, and has worked on the project since then. Good story, some interesting gameplay from being iron-man and playing in the middle of a trouble spot region, and excellent writing throughout.
And so, may I be the first to congratulate @Revan86 for:
The Lions of Olomouc: a CKIII Ironman AAR (Duchy of Moravia, 867)
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However, the subforum seems alive and well, and has put put some excellent stories both recently and long term. The incoming recipient received the award for the same AAR a year and a month ago, and has worked on the project since then. Good story, some interesting gameplay from being iron-man and playing in the middle of a trouble spot region, and excellent writing throughout.
And so, may I be the first to congratulate @Revan86 for:
The Lions of Olomouc: a CKIII Ironman AAR (Duchy of Moravia, 867)
The Lions of Olomouc: a CKIII Ironman AAR (Duchy of Moravia, 867)
THE LIONS OF OLOMOUC a CKIII Ironman AAR Duchy of Moravia, 867 BOOK ONE. East and West PROLOGUE A Debate in the King’s Courtyard Early Autumn, 866 Icon of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to Moravia Midday was coming, and the sun was...
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| It's time to play the music It's time to light the lights It's time to read the AARs on the Weekly AAR Showcase tonight |
| It's time to put on makeup It's time to dress up right It's time to raise the curtain on the Weekly AAR Showcase tonight | 
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To celebrate our AAR stars That's what I'm here to do, so it really makes me happy | 
| To congratulate with you: @Zamarak500 @Nax24 @Austregisel @Tommy4ever @ibicko @nAssailant @TheButterflyComposer |
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On the most sensational inspirational celebrational filcatational | 
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[*] Adapted from various intro sequences of The Muppet Show (c. Jim Henson, 1976-1981)
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Congratulations @Revan86! Just as soon as you cover studly chests and itty bitties, you win a wonderful award.
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Magnificent choice.
A nexus fruition
Whirling cognition
Ulterior, the failing of words
An AAR to leave me bewildered
Lurch at the sight of the clandestine ascendancy
Pervading magnificence
An awe-struck principle, an adytum to find the aesthetic
Lurch at the sight of the clandestine ascendancy
Pervading magnificence
An awe-struck principle, an adytum to find the aesthetic
Long for the rapture again
Crave for the pristine light
Crave for the pristine light
Vastness engulfing the posts
Unfurling this truth, an orbit in sovereignty
Sown into deep darkness
The words have to die, perish to bestow new life
Unfurling this truth, an orbit in sovereignty
Sown into deep darkness
The words have to die, perish to bestow new life
A vis major painting a rapturous view
Heralding a vivid excellence
Heralding a vivid excellence
Heed, like calling the rain
Like bearing in pain
Embracing life and decaying in death
Heed, like calling the rain
The caress of a mother
Life to go withered, a perennial omnipresence
I will not forget what I read there
Unusual the stories proclaim
The glory primal, the rapturous supremacy
Vanquishing the vile
Burgeoning beyond, bearing the essence of life
The glory primal, the rapturous supremacy
Vanquishing the vile
Burgeoning beyond, bearing the essence of life
[*] Appropriated from Calling the Rain of the album Slania by Eluveitie (2008)
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Thank you so much indeed, @TheButterflyComposer! I'm glad you've been enjoying it! (And I have to agree with @Midnite Duke, it's possible to take away from the timing of this awAARd, the lesson that full frontal nudity sells, LOL.)
And thank you to @Macavity116, @HistoryDude, @Midnite Duke and especially @filcat for the congratulations! (Also to @filcat for his appropriation of my personal favourite Eluveitie album to do so!)
And thank you to @Macavity116, @HistoryDude, @Midnite Duke and especially @filcat for the congratulations! (Also to @filcat for his appropriation of my personal favourite Eluveitie album to do so!)
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It's the one CK3 meme thing Ged's Existential Nightmare never got around to showing. There was one adamist but I think they died or something.
And of course sex sells. Especially when it's free and found online.
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