[Arryn]

Originally posted by Sand:
Another reader and newbie here. (I've been playing the demo for a week or so; full Version arriving today.) This AAR has definitely been a helpful eye-opener in terms of what "real" strategies are.

Great! Another Dom convert, and another fan of my AAR. Cool. I'm pleased that you find the postings useful to you. That means I'm succeeding at what I intended. As for my playing style being a "real" strategy, it's real only insofar as I'm not a Dom expert and I've made (and continue to make) mistakes. I'll be mentioning my most recent one in my next turn post, coincidently. But one of the things that I think make AARs useful is seeing how players overcome the mistakes they make (assuming they do overcome them).

What would be truly educational is an AAR of a MP game, written after the fact by the multiple participants. MP games are quite a bit different, strategically-speaking, than SP games vs. the AI. The slow, methodical expansion I'm doing in this AAR would get me killed off, quickly, in MP. What units you build and, more importantly, what you research changes markedly when you play in MP. Not quite so much for Jotuns, but much more so for other nations.

Stay tuned, and thanks again for reading and posting.