Jotunheim:Utgard AAR

[Shudson66]

Hey Arryn,

Wonderful, AAR, I recieved my copy of DOM2 two weeks ago. I was just getting killed everytime. Mostly due to laziness and missing things I should not have. But after reading this AAR and taking some of the advise you Norfleet, Zen and others have posted here I finally won a game as the Jotuns. Now I am trying one as the ACRO with higher AI levels. Once again thanks and keep up the good work.

[Wyatt Hebert]

I would also like to chime in with congratulations for Arryn on this wonderful AAR. The rp'ing ones are nice, but sometimes (especially for us new players) the pure strategy element is nice.

I'm thinking of starting a newbie AAR (i.e. an AAR from a completely acknowledged neophyte) in the hope that I can get pointers in the middle of the game that might prompt some good strategy commentary from the experienced crowd... something like a 'simulator' run in a more advanced setting, with the older players (and I mean more experienced ) acting as the training officers.

If it would work as planned, I would imagine it could be a good read for new players.

Also, Arryn, with the risk of making this go even slower, I'm thinking of the possibilities of explaining more often why you are doing certain things. Personally, I haven't looked at the screenshots, but I think I'm going to need to so as to fully comprehend the situation, tho I'm learning the Orania map quite well, actually.

Anyways, good job, and keep it coming.

I'll post more often now that I've read the whole thing. It's taken me a week or more of hit-and-run reading to finish this!

Wyatt

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Shudson66:
Wonderful, AAR, I recieved my copy of DOM2 two weeks ago.

Thanks! And congrats on your new addiction.

I was just getting killed everytime. Mostly due to laziness and missing things I should not have. But after reading this AAR and taking some of the advise you Norfleet, Zen and others have posted here I finally won a game as the Jotuns.

I understand what you mean. I, too, get annoyed when I forget to move a unit (in my haste to get to the next turn), or I don't anticipate the need for more supplies, or I research something and/or cast a spell that I then cannot make good use of at the time. From reading the AAR you'll have seen me make all these mistakes, and more than once. Heh, it's particularly annoying when one makes these mistakes in public for everyone to read about. Which is why I try to point out when I make them so that all of you reading the AAR won't make them yourselves.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Wyatt Hebert:
I would also like to chime in with congratulations for Arryn on this wonderful AAR. The rp'ing ones are nice, but sometimes (especially for us new players) the pure strategy element is nice.

Thanks for the praise, Wyatt, and for your perseverance in reading the whole thing.
I strongly urge you to go forward with your own AAR. IMO, you can not have too many newbie AARs, and certainly never too many if they are well-written (informative and interesting).

With regards to my AAR, you do need to look at the screenshots to get a feel for the overall strategic situation. It's one thing for me to describe that I will attack province X containing Y numbers of enemies with Z number of my troops, and another to actually see what it looks like on the map with the relative army strengths. You can also see ALL the potential enemy threats, some of which I sometimes won't mention in the text because I know that they can be seen on the screenshots.

I will endeavor to try to go into even more detail as to why I do some of the things I do (and when I do them). One example that you may wonder about is why I've researched schools in the order I have. I'll make a special post about the choices I've made in this regard to fill you (and others) in on it.

[Arryn]

I just wanted to notify all of you faithful AAR readers that I will be gone from the forum starting Sunday 28 March until mid-April. I have to travel out of state to go take care of my elderly mother (82) who'll be undergoing shoulder surgery (to repair torn ligaments) next week. The AAR will resume after I return home. (My mother has no Net connection, and the town she lives in has no publically-accessible Net connections where I could hook up my laptop -- in case anyone's curious as to why I won't be posting while I'm away from home.)

Try not to go into AAR withdrawal during the 2.5 weeks I'm away. Go nag Peter or Charon or any of the other good AAR writers to post a few more turns of their AARs.

[Arryn]

FYI: I'm back ...

[Gateway103]

Originally posted by Arryn:
FYI: I'm back ...

Welcome back ^_^ Hope everything is alright.

-Gateway103