"No. I said it would have been about a draw, and no better. I am sorry if you don't like that idea, but it is the only way it can be to encourage even remotely historical action on the Allied side, and perhaps even a little more smaller changes will be necessary in the future.
You cannot directly compare the final VP level here with the new VP levels in the v2 scenario, as I said, this is not how it works -- *everything* is scaled downwards, including the objective values. If you do the math, my calculation of your result with v2 scenario puts the Central Powers at 347 points inside of a Draw, which sounds perfect to me, given that you lost over 100,000 more men and 1,000 more guns --half an army in the process, so not a victory or a defeat here but a draw. As I said, the risk of choosing to hold everything to the last man immediately is that the best you could probably hope for is a draw unless you end up with something that is relatively even in loss ratio, which wouldn't be very likely to pull off. Also, the risky part about that decision is that if the Germans managed to take just a few more objectives then it they would have gotten a victory. So now you should fall back, trading space for time and conduct periodic counter attacks, but prepare for a final all out battle near the end of the campaign. Hmm, sounds historical. Not sure what more can be said, nor why this would be considered a bad thing." 
Sorry I clicked on the wrong icon. I think the new scenario is a good idea. Even trying to keep losses down, the Germans are usually under 1 million by Turn 81 (Sept. 1) and there's just no place to go except straight ahead and outnumbered against mounting opposition. A good what if scenario with the original might be "Moltke gets guts" or. how the campaign would turn out if those two Army Korps are not sent east. jonny
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