Balancing scenarios.

[larry marak]

Just wondering what you might be doing to balance a scenario that seems awfully tilted to one side (which may well be the historically probable result).

I like to use the published scenario as just a starting point in solo game play. I had Shad wondering what I meant by playing Ogre scenarios in PG a while back.

Looking at Bogdanovo (PG#1, also EF#90) there are a number of things you can do to give advantage to the defender (in this case the Soviets, who don't need any help), besides beefing up the order of battle.

Use hidden set up for all units in limiting terrain.
Use drumfire artillery plots on anticipated lines of advance.
Use leader characters
Require that the attacker set up first.

For the attacker (Wehrmacht)

Require that defender set up first and in the open
Use leader characters
Add a negative 1or 2 to increase the chance of ammo shortage for the defender in fog of war rolls.

And of course, manipulate the morale for either side.


What other balancing tricks do you try?