Another category to consider might be AAR of the year.
In which case I would wholeheartedly nominate CCIP's engaging and informative AAR
--"So Far, So Good"--about the life and death struggles of a Soviet
Dekabrist class submarine in the Barents Sea.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=219339
Does a really superb job of translating the game into an absorbing narrative
.