When I've wanted to draw on screenshots, I just use MS Paint. For capturing screenshots, look into Faststone Capture. The 'capture region' button is fantastic—no need to crop, if you don't want the whole screen.

We're most of the way through the new series now. If you'd like to vote to shape the final entry, leave a comment here: Breaking Fortress Holland No. 15 (link)

Just a heads-up: I've started Part III (link) of this series, covering the final scenario in the pack. It's the most interesting of the bunch, I think, and I've been looking forward to playing it since I started this AAR last year.

Any news on Brabant Breakthrough? My 'next few weeks' estimate turned out to be wildly optimistic, but I'm going to be finishing my Breaking Fortress Holland AAR series in December for sure, and it would be cool to do it in CO2 if possible.

Is there any news on this? Sometime in the next few weeks, I'm going to be starting the last scenario in tukker's Brabant Breakthrough pack, and I'd love to write it up with CO2 if possible.

I'm very sorry to report that I've run into a critical issue with my saved game—the game crashes when I try to progress past about 0200, Day 3. Where does that leave us? Well, not in the best of places, I'll freely admit. Whatever happens, I'll have to ditch the current update. It's possible...

I realize BFTB is way down on the support totem pole with the recent release of CO2 (congratulations, by the way!), but I'm still in the middle of a BFTB AAR, and came across an extremely reproducible crash. A save file is attached—it crashes reliably for me within a few seconds of unpausing...

Issue #10 is posted. This is the last voting point in the scenario, so it's your last chance to get your votes in.

Thank you. It's a lot less work than the other style I do (tying in quotations from a history book), so you're likely to see more of it in the future.

Issue #9. It's beginning to look like it'll be closer.

Issue #8. Thanks for bearing with me through the lengthy delay—unexpected business travel twice in the last two weeks.

Issue #7. I'm optimistic so far!

Sneaking in after the deadline a bit. :P I've been very much enjoying this AAR style—not only does it force me to slow down and think about tactical options more clearly, it also frequently results in readers directing me to act in a way I wouldn't ordinarily, and enforces a tempo on major...

Issue #6 is up. I've been trying to make it an article here, but there are some formatting things that don't work as well in the article editor as they do at my website.

Issue #5. The first entry will be It did indeed turn out to be something of a photo finish. The next one will be starting in a few weeks—I have some personal business to take care of in the interim.

Issue #4. It's going to be a photo finish, looks like. Erik, I'm finding that it's very easy to get to the Peel-Raam line, and moderately easy to clear a way past it, but difficult to actually get to the exits on time.

Issue #3 has arrived.

There are links in both posts, but this forum doesn't show them with any special formatting. I've underlined them for ease of use.

Issue #2 has been posted.

For Christmas this year, I decided to go a little further afield. I very much enjoyed tukker's Brabant scenario pack a while ago, so I decided to play all three of the scenarios together this year. Here's where I'm posting them.