"Battle Reports: One-Sided or Two-Sided?" Topic

How do you prefer your battle write-ups? The kind where one person writes everything up, or the kind where all/both the players share their versions?

I like to know what each sides initial strategy was. I really like it when there are multiple players and get the GMs AAR. The more AARs the better.

We do After Action Reports (AAR). Never heard the term Battle Report until I saw it on TMP.

One sided propaganda types, in period of course. Some humour is always good. Madaxeman reports are always worth a look and a good example to be guided by.

One need only look to ancient empires for inspiration.

" At the command of the god Ashur, the great Lord, I rushed upon the enemy like the approach of a hurricane…I put them to rout and turned them back. I transfixed the troops of the enemy with javelins and arrows. Humban-undasha, the commander in chief of the king of Elam, together with his nobles…I cut their throats like sheep…My prancing steeds, trained to harness, plunged into their welling blood as into a river; the wheels of my battle chariot were bespattered with blood and filth. I filled the plain with corpses of their warriors like herbage "
— Sennacherib

I'm painting Assyrians and Babylonians at the moment.

Of course, if you lost, it's fake news and never happened.

I agree with Twilight Samurai on in character AARs.

Anything well written.

Like advocate says. Oh and yes, Twilight Samurai, Madaxeman AARs are great fun to read.