Setting the Advantage - what does it change?

[phoenix]

If, for whatever reason, playing PBEM is difficult, then I've found playing hs against myself much better than playing the AI. If you play a really big scenario then your faulty memory will provide some measure of FOW, but in any case you can game the FOW differences with various internal rules. If you can pretend that you're doing something meaningful playing against a scripted AI as one-dimensional as the JTS AI then you can certainly pretend it's meaningful playing yourself. And it's very cool to move both sides, I think - there's no down time. And you don't have to watch long, slow dull playbacks. From a historical point of view it's also great to get to understand both sides of the scenario and what they were trying to achieve. You need to game it by making plans and sticking to them realistically, and not making any re-plan decisions based on what you remember of the 'other sides' dispositions. Long way better than playing the AI, imho, though undoubtedly PBEM better than both.