SPMBT challenge: Presovo Valley

[retired from gaming]

* A mirrored game going on simultaneously (only bad thing is that this takes out much of the fog of war).

Think this could take a lot of the fun out of delay defend scenerios.
Wont sort the problem completly but perhaps try picking 2 seperate similar scenerios.
If possible
Same meeting type
AI plays the same side (i.e. defender or attacker)
Same Designer

Thats about the best you can do to hope they are balanced about the same. You both play the player side in one game & the AI in the other.

If you do it against someone you play regulary can wing scoring a bit as know each others levels & how well you actually played so just agree to adjust score level if needed beforehand.

Imp,
my guess is you probably aren't talking from experience. In theory it might sound reasonable, but by all means I would'nt recomend taking two diferent scens to balance the result. It won't work, trust me. Been there, done that. I have no idea how many scenarios you guys played, but can bet bucks against pinuts nobody here PBEM'ed as many as I did. There is not such a thing like balanced scenario. Some of them are just less unbalanced than others and I call them suitable for PBEM, yet balanced is the word which shouldn't be used here. Even purchased games arent usually balanced, as players use difernt nations.
The only balanced games per se I ever played were few years ago in World Cup tourney, when participiants could use any units from the game. Everybody had the same chance.
2ndLtFun idea has some potential, but only for players who do not care about playing scenarios blind. Not for me.

cheers
maciej