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LargeSlowTarget -> RE: Stalking the Wolf. Mundy (A) vs GrauWolf80 (J) - LST's Bottleneck Mod. (5/26/2017 9:01:40 AM)
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Well, I understand the frustration of GW, but he should have concentrated his forces to capture the SRA first (with the "big stick" instead of trying to grab bases "on the cheap") - and not sending units to New Caledonia and Fiji early-on. You cannot play that scenario the same way as you are used to from stock or original DBB - it has been conceived to slow things down.
OTOH you should have tried to evacuate the civilians - is part of the scenario design. There are ample means to achieve it. Some may get lost trying to escape and others might have to be left behind, that's pretty historical.
The civilians are there to prevent a full Sir Robin, to force the Allies to fight instead of running away and to tie-down shipping. Failing to evacuate them will eventually yield a huge VP harvest to Japan and will cause a considerable supply drain for the Allies, since some units are quite large in order to have a significant impact. This should be enough incitement to "play according to script" - but apparently you did not care about the VP loss and supply drain?!?
By necessity, each "civilian" device is paired with a support device, otherwise the units would just whither away. With each non-combat device adding 1/10 to defense, this can add-up to the combat power. Making no efforts whatsoever to get the civilians out results in unintended consequences - a huge boost provided to the defense.
I may revisit the civilian units and tone-down the numbers of devices. However, if the players don't accept the scenario "script", then there is no other solution than deleting the "Civilians" from the scenario and thus to water-down the entire scenario concept - I'm not ready to do that.
If GW throws the towel, I would offer to pick-up the game to see for myself - but not at the same pace.
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