Is CM dying?

[enigma6584]

IMO one reason why CMx1 battles were often so fun was that battle time was so short. You had to take risks and that meant lots of things happening on the map. Many CMx2 scenarios have at least one hour or more playing time. You can scout first and minimize risks.
Also during CMx1 there were so many scenario designers! Much more variation.

So jump into the scenario editor and have at it. You can make short scenarios if you like. I seem to recall many, many people complaining about the short time frames of scenarios way back thus the latest scenarios have been catering to those who prefer the long, drawn out battles. Take that and add the larger, more sophisticated maps, along with the new trigger system and you've got seriously good battles going on.

It has gotten to the point that the scenario editor is so good, so variable in terms of what you can create that I'm actually going to start designing and uploading my own scenarios.