Reviews

Review Criteria

• • Scenario balance considers the design balance, without regard to a game's luck or player balance.

  • Luck is the side favored by the dice goddess, if any. This considers hot/cold dice, high-value KIA, key SW malf., etc.

  • Player rates the relative balance including rules knowledge, tactical experience, scenario familiarity.

    • Training games record a trainer is '5' and trainee is '1'.

  • Variant (Var), if applicable.

Measurement

• • Scale is 1 to 5, with '1' a strong Allied advantage, '3' balanced and '5' a strong Axis advantage.

  • The scale is either 'Balanced', '+' or '++' with each indicating the win record in the database.

• • The measurement is based on 'Squad Leader Survey' with a change in scale from '1 to 3' to '1 to 5'.¹

  • a 'balanced' scenario yields no wider split than 60/40.²

Source

• • ¹ Joe and Mike Suchar, 1981 Nov.-Dec., Squad Leader Survey, the Avalon Hill General, Vol 18 Issue 4, 16-18

  • ² Jon Mishcon, 1979 Nov.-Dec., East Front Asides, the Avalon Hill General , Vol 16 Issue 4, 15-18