[Arryn]

In case anyone's been having any sort of trouble following the flow of my turn postings, I've been trying to maintain a consistent format for each one. It is as follows:

• Turn number and season (month).
• A one-line "poetic" summary of the turn's most significant event.
• The reports of events in other nations.
• The report of anything special that has happened to me. This may sometimes be moved further down to better fit the prose.
• Descriptions of the battles that have taken place. This may take several paragraphs. I will generally not go into what happened in every replay turn, but instead give a condensed, or abridged Version of the action. I do take the time, though, to count each and every enemy unit type on the replay, which is tedious as you may imagine. I feel it's useful to know the exact mix of forces the AI has used and what it did to me and I to it.
• I follow the battle report with a report of how my people in the Hall of Fame (HoF) are faring. "Trophies" is my word for "experience". It's the best I could think of to put XP into some sort of thematic form.
• Next is an overview of the unrest in my realm. I may also include significant increases in province dominion in this paragraph.
• Following this is a report on the commanders that were hired, and what school level my researches have achieved this turn.
• A summary of the most important numerical stats for the realm, and the capital.
• Followed by the gem treasury report, with the amount in the pool shown in parenthesis.
• Next is a paragraph describing what/who I'm recruiting, and why.
• The Last thing in the turn is what orders I have given to whom.
• There is one Last thing that I may add to some turns, and that is my own assessment of any obvious mistakes I made that turn.

I hope this helps.

[ February 10, 2004, 22:59: Message edited by: Arryn ]