New Idea for ME's?

[Ratzki]

With no flags, the games tend to be a sit and wait affair. Each side waiting for the other to expose his location and forces. I think that the flags are needed, but more thought can be put into their placement. Don't forget to look into some other games and how they were scored. I made my Pruth scenario (It is in the H2H section at the moment being playtested) along these lines. I have flags placed at objectives, but have also included a special that one of the flags must be held by one side in order to have a chance at winning. You could design games where multiple flags existed, yet one or more must be taken within say the first 10 turns or the game is over. If you want the games to be a knock down all out affair, place multiple large flags in one location, make sure that each side knows about it then they will be focused on that one location, and will be rewarded for it in points. Just think outside the box a little and I am sure that you will be able to come up with something. I have always found that most maps are too wide and not deep enough, specially not deep enough with reguards to each side's setup zones. I have a chart somewhere that shows examples of widths of frontages for various size forces(battalion, company, regiment) in the attack and in defence. It is quite shocking to see how narrow some of these frontages were on the attack, as well as how spread out some of the defences were as well.