ab067 wrote:I purchased PzC Gold and I'm trying to find a scenario I really like.
In AG, I play Pskov endlessly and in PG, Byelorussia is my favourite.
I tried to locate a thread with players favourite scenario, but no joy.
Are there scenarios similar to ones I mentioned, or do you have a favourite?
A possible reason why there's no favourite scen thread is because everybody has their own idea of what makes a scen good; for example I can't stand big claustrophobic cityfights like Stalingrad and Warsaw, yet other people love 'em..
My first priority with scens is that they should be nicely balanced so that each player has about the same chance of winning.
I just came across one such scen today, 'Kasserine Pass' (below) which is well-balanced, today I narrowly lost a game as the German attacker against the US/British AI defender (vanilla PzCps, 'Colonel' level, default settings, supply Off), so I nominate it as one of my personal favourites.
The Germans start split into two strong battlegroups which have to advance down the arrows along the mountain roads to take just one of the far objectives (circled), what could possibly go wrong?..
(PS- another thing I like about the scen is that the Germans start with a healthy 2670 prestige pts and get a very useful 70 more each turn. I bought 3 Tigers during the game to fill combat loss slots and can still hardly believe I lost all 3 and never captured any of the two far objectives! I'll put a brief AAR at the foot of this post with a spoiler alert)
AAR SPOILER ALERT- (don't read this if you want to play it blind)-
I think I know why I lost, it was because American P-38 Lightning fighters put in a strong appearance in the second half of the game and wiped my 2 Stukas and Sparviero from the sky, eliminating my ability to launch airstrikes to clear the narrow mountain roads.
I had 3 fighters of my own but the P-38's outnumbered them and I lost them too.
Next time I shall make sure to buy at least 4 fighters and a few Flak vehicles rather than sink the cash into Tigers..