H2H Seems to be dead.

[K K Rossokolski]

I must be getting senile -I could have sworn I posted to this earlier today!!!!

A tale -maybe a year ago I put in a test report for WF -Cold Hard Fact. Neat small Bn size game, good history piece North Africa, US vs Vichy. Due to finger trouble I gave it a 100% score across the board. Tried to cancel this -couldn't. Emailed H2H a couple of times, asking my report be axed, and I would submit a new one. No answer, no action. The report is still there, as is Cold Hard Fact. A game at least as good as some of the new Matrix scens, a couple of which are completely one sided. Should be out in the game by now, but it sits in H2H and rots. Shame.
H2H is IMO dead in the water, and I dispute that this is due to lack of design efforts. There are hundreds of scens in the various theatre databases, many not played. Some are awful, some I have played are top stuff. A lot are much better history than game, but does that matter?

What are the issues?

A. The inability to agree on the term "balanced" -what it actually means for us, how important it is etc. IMO, agreement will never be achieved. Does it matter?

B. 4 passes at level 8 seems a big ask. Such an evaluation scheme assumes inter alia equal ability and attitude to the scen.

C. There are issues concerning formal reward for H2H testing. No comment.

D. Probably a lot easier to test a scen as a SM (hence ladder qualified) with a friend , maybe 2, if it plays OK fine put it in the DB. Winners get the appropriate points for the test, depending on the game size. Maybe ask subsequent players for input, perhaps come out with a V1.01 or 2.
What's wrong with that.

E. The Matrix developments , now and to come, have and will generate huge opportunities, and hopefully demand for new scens. Wars actual and hypothetical before and after WWII come into play -Spanish, Ethiopian, hopefully Korea, maybe we can restart WWI (as a game, of course. And others

H2H as is will not do.