On Tactics and Turns

[Ozgur Budak]

A title is a team work. Playtesting plays a vital role in this process. Quality playtesting gives valuable feedback to the scenario designers especially for playbalance. Poor playtesting reveals itself pretty quickly in gameplay and balance issues. I can talk about SAW and later projects as the development team was completely changed after a long inactivity. Perfect development is impossible but among the titles I worked, RV had the best playtesting. Nearly all scenarios were played as solo (from both sides) and pbem. Sometimes, in difficult scenarios we ran a third playtesting round. Apart from that the playtesting team members had extensive pbem experience. Most of them were veterans of the SB community. I am really surprised you found RV scenarios unbalanced.