How much should we know ahead of time?

[mfriedman421]

Problem is if you try going into a scenario "blind" so to speak, you might be putting yourself at a disadvantage as your opponent might be very familiar with the event or may have even played the scenario in question multiple times already.

Some of the most enjoyable battles I've played in these games over the years were engagements that I was not at all familiar with or had very little knowledge about. On top of that, meeting engagements or some of the large campaign in one scenario type battles have always been more fun to me than the pitched battles.