For those who have played Minsk 44

[D-Day_Dodger]

I too like to go to the DB to find out which games are balanced before looking for an opponent. The problem, as I see it, with using altered victory conditions when reporting a completed game is that the next person who goes to the DB for that particular scenario will have no way of knowing which games, if any, had the VP values changed before being reported and so can not get an accurate estimation of the play balance.

To avoid this, I recommend players who use house rules for VPs should report play balance based upon the stock scenario VPs and not their own results after applying their own changes. That way others would know that the game truly is imbalanced and either avoid it or make up their own house rules.

Coming to this message board is also a good way to find out this information except that the answers are only available as long as that thread is available. I think the ideal solution would be to have a short comments section added for each game reported where players could leave their impressions of the scenario. This would be of real value to future players who are looking for information about what game to play next.

And as a final thought, is there a way to amend the game reporting format to include a field for actual games turns played? This would correct the problem of players getting over compensated for forfeited games.