|
Post by garrisonchisholm on Sept 21, 2018 16:09:07 GMT -6
nws-online.proboards.com/thread/1496/challenging-britain-imperial-german-aar?page=4& following hard (relatively) on the heels of his previous AAR, Aeson's Imperial German AAR of equally entertaining note; Post by aeson on Jul 22, 2018 at 9:10pm "For this AAR, I will be playing as Germany and using my map mod. Game settings are Very Large fleet size and game budget (I'd have done historical budget to make it harder to catch up with Britain, but I'm a bit tired of smaller fleets right now), with a manual build of the legacy fleet. The goal, of course, is to become the preeminent navy in Northern Europe and the world as soon as is feasible."
|
|
|
Post by garrisonchisholm on Sept 22, 2018 9:10:10 GMT -6
Oh, as a Public Service Note, just in case someone else cares as passionately as myself and boomboomf22 , the original germ for this thread was my distress at finding a Photo Bucket policy change had removed the images from director 's Byzantium AAR. The policy change has now been LIFTED, so the Byzantium AAR now again has its images in its full glory. I heartily encourage everyone interested in a well writ read to give it a look. nws-online.proboards.com/thread/973/battle-history-modern-byzantine-navy(I have copied it page-by-page to my desk-top for posterity)
|
|
|
Post by aeson on Sept 22, 2018 13:23:13 GMT -6
(I have copied it page-by-page to my desk-top for posterity) If you want to do such things in the future, be aware that there are programs such as HTTrack for downloading and saving copies of websites so that you don't have to go through manually saving each page. Just be careful when you use such programs; if you aren't, you may end up downloading quite a bit more than you wanted and risk exposing your computer to malicious software.
|
|
|
Post by garrisonchisholm on Nov 20, 2018 17:18:49 GMT -6
Giving this thread a bump- There have probably been more than a few AARs I've missed since I waded into the testing mire, so if anyone completes one before I get to it Please feel free to add it to our roster. :]
|
|
|
Post by cwemyss on Dec 17, 2018 22:56:40 GMT -6
Time for a bump... and a semi-AAR I buried in the Ship Design thread. Original post November 2015. I started a game, playing as the United States, so long ago that it's embarrassing... it's been going at least 10 weeks, maybe a bit longer. August 13, whatever that works out to be. This speaks to a) how little time I get to play computer games, and b) my foolish determination to finish what I started. When I started I was taking what I thought were pretty decent notes, intending to write an epic AAR. Three months later I have almost no idea what I actually meant by "5/19/08, Fleet, Ger CA Sunk, night, confusion, minor vic." Well... I have some idea, but nowhere near enough recollection to build a decently engaging AAR. And I took nowhere near enough screen shots to work from. What I do have are my ship designs, the notes I took when I designed them, and a pretty decent record of what ships were in which battles. So I wrote up the Battleships and Battlecruisers as if they were entries in a fictional " History of the United States Navy, 1900-1927". I could do the cruisers too, but I started the game under V1.1 and a lot of the light cruisers were... ahem... a bit ahead of their time, as it turns out. I just got double-turrets for CLs in Feb 1926!!! And since I knew very little of pre-WW2 ships, all my CL designs were pretty awesome while the game engine allowed it. :-) Three notes: First, I continued the game long enough after 1925 to finish a war with Germany, and then clean up the budgetary mess afterward. So I wrapped things up and resigned in February 1927. Second, I never built a "classic" Battlecruiser. I was constantly behind the UK and Germany in B/BBs, and every time I was faced with the choice of spending $3.5M/month on a heavy battlecruiser or $4M/month on a battleship, I went with the latter. My BC designs ended up being really well-armed heavy cruisers, and a lot cheaper than a heavy BC design. Third, I absolutely love the progression in the designs... it happens very organically due to the way Fredrik has built this game. This is truly an amazing product and I'm thrilled I stumbled onto it. So, on to the almanac: (photos lost)
|
|
|
Post by cwemyss on Feb 3, 2019 16:50:41 GMT -6
Bumping off Page 3.
|
|
|
Post by admiral on Feb 3, 2019 19:00:37 GMT -6
Has anyone here heard of the Internet Archive? archive.org/web/It's basically a huge database for everything from books to movies and websites. If we're posting out AARs online we could just simply archive the webpages they appear on. The way it works is that you upload copy the url into their "Wayback Machine" and it "captures" the webpage as it appears at the time you pasted the link in. For example, I archived this very page as an example: web.archive.org/web/20190204004326/http://nws-online.proboards.com/thread/1210/aar-preservation-project?page=4. From this point on, even if NWS were to go completely bankrupt and delete everything or somehow everything gets erased or gone, this page for this thread will always remain. However, the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine have a few disadvantages: * they only save webpages as they appear at a point in time. The archived page for this website in the link above will not update to include new posts. You'd have to save the webpage again in order to update it. * they don't save everything and certain kinds of media don't get carried over. Any videos that are on a webpage will be nonfunctional in the archived version unless those videos are found and saved separately. That being said, this should not be a problem for us considering this site doesn't have a lot of videos. If you go to our archived page you'll notice that screenshots and ship blueprints all appear normally. * It takes very extensive archival work to make a website functional in the archive. Saving this one page just saves this one page, and even still just at one specific point in time. If you want the links to user profiles, other pages on this thread, other threads, etc etc, that will all have to be saved separately, page by page. * Even with very extensive archival efforts, certain features of a website may not be available, notably internal search engines (i.e. if you typed in the name of a thread into the search bar on this website, it wouldn't work in the archived version). * Once pages are archived, you have to know the exact URLs to access them again, or be able to in turn access archived pages with links to them. The Internet Archive just saves the URLs of webpages and doesn't give them names, so typing in "AAR Preservation Project" will not get you this thread in the Internet Archive results page. This makes archiving things like forum threads and news articles particularly frustrating, given that you may know an article as "Man Wins Lottery" when you really have to know newssite.com/articles/current_events/man-wins-lottery/313?.com to actually reach it. If we want to use the Internet Archive, it would be best to have a single thread with links to all our AARs. We'd archive all the pages in the the thread, archive all the linked AAR pages, and in turn keep all the URLs for everything saved in our own personal Word documents/Google Docs/etc for personal reference.
|
|
|
Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 4, 2019 7:32:46 GMT -6
That's an interesting idea. Would Archiving even save the pages intact if the image server were to revert its policies or go under, and preserve the uploaded images of the author?
|
|
|
Post by admiral on Feb 5, 2019 22:35:26 GMT -6
That's an interesting idea. Would Archiving even save the pages intact if the image server were to revert its policies or go under, and preserve the uploaded images of the author? Yes, I think so. Armchair General magazine had a long-running series of articles called Tactics 101 that covered ground warfare from the philosophical level all the way down to the individual rifleman, and while the text of the articles is still there on the regular website the photos don't load on some of the older articles. However, going into the Archived versions of these articles reveals the photos to you. Then again, the whole point of the Internet Archive is so that you can access something even if the original owners have gone completely defunct. It'd be very counterproductive and stupid to create a backup database that really only pulls from the original source anyway. In any case, another example I can give is of the Combat Decision Games for the all-but-dead Armchair General magazine: web.archive.org/web/20180312140738/http://www.armchairgeneral.com/cdg-command-center.htm. The CDGs were basically these choose-your-own-adventure type games where a historical scenario would be laid out for the readers with three courses of action to be taken, with the right course of action being revealed in the next issue along with explanations of what happened historically and pointers for carrying out the kind of operation the scenario was about. While Armchair General still functions as a website, they are reduced to publishing occasional board game reviews with most of their site's features either being shut down entirely or halted. CDG is now inaccessible normally, but all of the CDGs are available through the Archive. in my experience, pictures, text, and links are preserved (though the links won't actually take you anywhere unless the pages they link to are archived as well), with only videos not being saved along with a page.
|
|
|
Post by garrisonchisholm on Mar 13, 2020 11:51:45 GMT -6
Good afternoon folks- not everyone may have seen this, but this is the composite 'index' thread I created over in the RTW1 forum. It is about 7 months out of date, so feel free to ad to it once you've understood the format; if it has a definitive beginning middle and end, add your link to the list!
There are some gems in here, though unfortunately not all photos included with those AARs have survived.
|
|
|
Post by cabalamat on Mar 14, 2020 6:54:26 GMT -6
I am a bit leery of putting very many more 'sticked' threads in the forum; right now we have 7 such threads (after I 'unsticked' one as no longer needed) not even counting the 2 locked top threads.. If enough players think that a sticked AAR thread is a good idea then I will create one, but let me see how much support the idea has. It is already the case that the first non-stickied thread on a page is one-and-a-half screenfuls down the page, so I don't think there should be more stickied content.
|
|