Hello,
I believe that H2H is needed and is valuable tool in bringing scenario designers and test players together. Especially those on the beginning of the way.
I agree with Paul, that 1.04 has hindered the designing and playing effort a bit, but the statistics show that the number of games played is increasing, so will the number of playtests and scenario designs.
In fact I'm working on next scenario. I have just decided to redesign it and use the wholla bunch of those new units we have thanks to development team
All the best
Slawek