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DYO SYSTEM
There have been several partial design you own scenario systems for PG over the years. Original PG came with a point system for purchasing unit counters and morale levels, but not improvements (entrenchments, dug-in status before scenario beginning, minefields). Cassino introduced the next unit purchase system, based on buying formations and delay of introduction into the battle field; this has seen further development in PG campaigns. Then, in a step up from the latter, an improved version of this system was issued for Campaigns and Commanders 1 & 2, which included the first sets of "generic" scenarios for PG.
At this point it should be possible to create a generic order of battle generator incorporating the entire corpus of PG units. Dr. B.'s orientation to the game has always been to follow historical encounters as closely as the system allows. Would you be interested in playing dyo scenarios from a data book, or even generic system games? I suspect at this point a construction system would have to be based on charts done here or on Grognards, or on BGG, though Stafford did evince some possibility that Avalanche might publish such a system if it was practical and straightforward.
With such a dyo system, you could take a published scenario, say EF #1, translate the order of battle, ob artillery, and any defensive terrain modifications (none present in that scenario) into points, and then purchase your own ob based on units and support available in that year.
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