After Action Report Tools

One of the things I wanted to do on this blog is to create After Action Reports for some of my wargaming sessions. To do this, I needed to find a screen capture utility that will let me screenshot the game situation at various points. Ideally, I would like a tool that also lets me put arrows and other images on the screen capture. At work, we use Snag-It, which is an awesome tool and does everything I need. Unfortunately, it costs $49.95 a copy, which is more than I'm willing to spend just for screenshots and arrows.

A couple of free screenshot utilities are:

• MWSnap
• King Kong C apture
• Screen Hunter
• An extensive list of other utilities can be found here.
  

None of the above capture utilities provides captured image editing geared toward how I want it to work.

A interesting tool that supports creation of military maps with symbology is MILSketch. It supports drawing arrows on the image maps, and includes a host of military symbols. It's also free and looks to be the tool that I have been looking for. MILSketch is not an screenshot tool, so it looks like I would need a combination of MILSketch and one of the above screenhot tools to achieve the desired effects. I plan on downloading and trying out the tools in the near future and will post an evaluation...