Unpacking Scenarios from Campaigns - be Advised!

[WimO]

Unpacking campaigns to be able to play individual scenarios has a significant impact on play balance.  Opposing forces in each scenario are drawn from the campaign's 'core units file'. When playing a scenario within the framework of the campaign, the strengths of  opposing forces are modified by the results of previous actions as determined by the settings between scenarios for Restore, Refit, Resupply and Rest parameters. There is no such modification in an unpacked scenario resulting in opposing forces being at full-strength! This can have undesirable effects on play balance. It is for this reason that I have created 'free-standing' scenarios for all of my 82nd Airborne campaign scenarios. The force strengths of the free-standing versions have been adjusted to simulate historical (casualty reduced) numbers. In addition, accompanying instructions and text files must usually tell a slightly different story within the campaign vs free-standing scenarios, with the latter needing to be a bit more situationally descriptive.