PBEM

[Andris]

Some people are thinking about balance, and balance, and yet more bloody balanced balance. One should design a special scenario for them: just plain battlefield, no trees, no hills, with exactly the same number of exactly the same units on both sides (in CMBB, you can provide this with pro-Axis and pro-Allies Rumanians at a certain point, in August 1944, I believe, since the nation suddenly changed the side). That will be an ideally balanced scenario. Unbearably stupid and boring, too.

I prefer interesting scenarios that imitate real action. "Forgotten outpost" is certainly one of them. You can easily win it if you play for Axis against AI. It is not so easy to capture a fort in a desert without any artillery support or tanks, so after massacring the green units at the airfield and some quick fight in the village Allies have a really difficult and interesting task. We have started this scenario with another guy but he replies rather slowly, so I am not sure how long it will take. I'd still experiment on this with someone else.

No, what about balance? Well, if you care, then a mirror game is the answer. That gives an ideal balance: both players will be exactly in the same situation.

What I call unfair play is, first of all, whem one agrees to play a scenario and then suddenly blames the opponent for choosing a wrong one. I think it was in the rules that once you have seen the battlefield and moved your troops you HAVE AGREED to complete the game. Well, anything can happen, it is true, you may be too busy or the game may loose its attraction. This is fully understandable. Then, I assume, you are not in the position to blame the opponent but rather to apologise for discontinuing the game. Sorry if I am wrong.