Which Demo scenarios are the best ones for pbem?

[The_MonkeyKing]

I would like to play some of the demo scenarios as pbem but I don't know which ones would work the best for this. I don't want to open and spoil the scenarios by finding out myself...

[Combatintman]

Depends on your preference of course but, bearing in mind I've never done PBEM, I would say that @George MC's Passage at Wilcox would be one of the better bets.

[The_MonkeyKing]

Thank you for the response!

It would be awesome if someone would write a list from best to worst scenarios in terms of multiplayer balance.

[borg]

1 hour ago, Combatintman said:

Depends on your preference of course but, bearing in mind I've never done PBEM, I would say that @George MC's Passage at Wilcox would be one of the better bets.

Hey is the zero dark thirty raid playable CMSFII ? Husssssss

[The_MonkeyKing]

Well, now I have started all the scenarios as pbem matches... I will report on the multiplayer potential of each when I am done.

 

[The_MonkeyKing]

Report on the DEMO scenarios pbem experience. No spoiler "ratings" inside

Alamo [you get a big and bit silly fight but another side has a big advantage in VP assignment] :
The dynamics of this battle do not translate to pbem very well. First, the Syrians have overwhelming force and will wipe out the castle and again after this has happened the Germans will wipe out the Syrians with overwhelming force. In the end, Syrians will win in VP.

Day at the Beach  [Horrible experience for the Syrian player ok for the Marines] :
The Syrian player cannot win. He has no tools to win and his troops are so immobile that he has close to nothing to do after deployment. US player has an overwhelming force and will have a pretty good experience with trying to minimize his casualties.

The Passage at Wilcox [A fun and balanced scenario but VP are not well reflective of the battle result] :
A good brutal fight. Syrians are presumed to get wiped out and the US player will have his hands full trying to minimize casualties while trying his best to respect preserve objectives.

Breaking the bank [Interesting and challenging scenario]: Battle still in progress, around halfway through. I will update when done. Might take a while.
Seems to be an interesting and challenging scenario at least from the British perspective. Huge and dense urban area, tight time limit and too few dismounts with very numerous enemy. Still in progress, so I cannot say about VP accuracy yet.

[The_MonkeyKing]

And now the final report on the Breaking the bank:

I would say the best scenario for pbem out of the demo scenarios. Balance works out mostly well. Brits have very limited (heavy)firepower because of the limited abilities and ammo of the Warriors and Challengers also have very few HE. On the positive side, Birts do have large amounts of smoke, MG, HMG, and AP available. This combined with the huge urban map forces the Brits to fight very "fair" house to house street to street with mostly infantry while armor takes care of the flanks and roads (if it was a US mech company one could demolish half the buildings on the map just in case...). The small squads of the Brittish mech troops don't leave a lot of room for casualties. Syrians have more than enough high-quality meat bags and also a very respectable amount of armor although the Brittish Apache forces them to be used offensively and early. Syrians are missing AT capacity (especially because the Apache cancels out the Syrian armor.) Maybe 4 AT-14s in place of the current 2 or limit the British air support somehow (give it later or worse quality...) or give the Syrian armor a couple of places to take cover or AA assets.

 

And now the victory points. They are not perfectly representative of the truth. Syrians should benefit more for killing Brittish dismounts and Brits punished more for losing them (now most of the casualty points bound to British AFVs) and I was able to get a major victory by only capturing half the objectives.