re: scenario design

[Kool Kat]

...if you are creating hypothetical scenarios, then surely a guideline is needed?

You stay true to the game scale... and that is 250 meters / hex.

The CS User Manual recommends that when developing an Order of Battle (OOB), that the organizational structure be within a company or battalion size. It goes on to state that "...you build an organization with a battalion as the minimum organization." - CS User Manual 1.03 (Page 84).

For example, you wouldn't create a map around five miles square and put a corps oob in it?

No, of course not? It goes back to that previous thread on respecting and staying within the scale of the game? :chin:

Peter - it seems like you are trying to make this more difficult than it really is? Read up on a battle... find out all you can about it (forces, OOB, length, outcome, etc.)... create the map... generate the OOBs... play test it with multiple players... tweak the victory conditions... adjust the reinforcements... etc. and finish with a fun and exciting scenario?

I would wager that most battle accounts a designer would want to use would be smaller than corps sized ones... and would generally fall within the regiment or battalion-sized encounters? And regiment or battalion-sized battles are ideal for the CS game scale? :chin:

IMO, a good scenario design is as much an intuitive exercise as it is an exacting science. :smoke: