I do like to write AARs, tho I am horribly behind, due to a combination of lack of time and frequent incarceration...
A man is having trouble with his mule. He takes it to a man who is supposed to be an expert on training mules. He says, "When I say 'Gee', he doesn't Gee, and when I say 'Haw', he doesn't Haw."
The expert trainer goes up to the mule, and whacks it in the head with a two by four. "SMASH!!!"
The mule staggers a bit, then the man sez 'Gee'! And the mule Gees. And then he sez 'Haw'. And the mule Haws.
The owner sez, "That's amazing!!! But why did you need to smack him in the head???"
The trainer sez, "Well, first, you gotta get their attention..."
That is what I am trying for in my AARs. I wanna get people's attention, and get them to play more scenarios that are worth playing, and pass on those that aren't. There are a bunch that aren't. I play more games than most players, and I feel for people who only can play once a month because they have a real job and a nagging wife and rugrats that require almost constant supervision to make sure that they don't set fire to the dog.
Again.
Life is too short to be playing dogs. While I try to entertain, that is the main reason I post AARs. I also hope to encourage people to get out a play more. FTF, VASL - whatever.
Some of my opponents pretty much only buy MMP stuff, so that is a lot of what I play. I like to play 3rd party scenarios. As a designer, I know how much work and effort goes into designing a new scenario, and feel that the work should be rewarded by having people play it - and post the results on ROAR, even if they don't do an AAR.
True confession - some of the stuff in my AARs is made up. Fake. Fraudulent. As real as the Weekly World News Batboy stories. But everything related to the actual game is gospel. That is one of the things that is so, so kewl about the game. What REALLY happens is usually much weirder and more exciting than anything you can make up. 9-1 American leader eliminates 3 HSs and wounds an 8-0 while attempting to rally people??? Yep. Mortar breaks three times in 3 turns??? Yep. Entire scenario played without a defending 6 morale American squad ever, EVER breaking??? Yep.
BTW, I had the Germans in that last one. I lost. Go figger...
When I play Vinnie, he takes a pic of the board after every player turn. If I do it, it is usually at the end of the game. And I apologize if the pics are not the best quality. Slow shutter speed, bad lighting, and plastic covering the board tend to wreck the pics due to reflections and blurriness. Shaky hands due to vodka consumption don't help, either.
Some end of game shots I don't take. "At the end of the game, the board wuz a sea of blue, with bloody piles of gutted Russians everywhere..."
I like to give the game highlights - and lowlights - without going into mind-numbing detail. "At the beginning of Turn 8, my opponent rolled a 6 on his Wind Change roll..."
Anyway, keep reading my AARs, as well as everyone else's.
Coming up in mine - links to Latina lesbian pics. I promise...
