nice article

[burroughs]

The problem is, that playing a scenario a number of times (or designing one) will give you a feeling for the possibilities and strenghts/weaknesses of the setup and various strategy option, even without opening up the scenario in the editor. And there is just no way to make that knowledge go away.

Aye, Colonel Sir, that is why I never play mirror games nor swap the sides straight away after completing one even if it feels tempting to learn what the other guy would do himself, especially if he has just managed to beat the hell out of me. It may sound fair in terms of offseting the illegitimate intel issue - You know what he would have in his store and he is going to know what You have in Yours as that has just been his shop previously - and a few more unrealistic results that follow, but as Fhil put that - it never happens in reality. Even when Gen. Maj. Student laid his hands on the detailed "Market-Garden" plans on the dead body of an allied officer in a glider that had crushed , they distrusted that "miracle" that much so as to have deemed that a fake and have never actually acted on that a bit.Sometimes and those are rare, rare occassions if I particularily like certain scenario and want to try walking in the other side's shoes, I let some meaningful ammount of time pass first.

@ Fhil - sure I am all for that; I ofen say that wargaming is probably the only instance I know of which is a source of a funny adverse phenomenon; if You get with Your opponent like a house on fire, the more You understand one another, the more vicious and prolonged fighting ensues. It's normally quite otherwise in so-called real life,eh? ...