Best/Most Balanced Scenarios?

[arenson9]

I realize this is only tangentially related, but decades ago I played a game in which one is defending an island from attackers. It is expected that the defenders will lose the island. The game is scored based on how long one can keep from losing the island.

[phantaskippy]

Battletech had lopsided battles, but the scoring was such that people preferred the underdogs, because they could win so much and would lose so little, but trying to win with the advantage, but with as few resources lost as possible was hard, and you could lose so badly if things went horribly wrong.

[LeperKhan]

I'll just chime in here to say I'm glad to see so many 'Playtester' banners present in this thread because it means that it's at least on people's minds as you work through the Broken City & For Profit stuff. I can't get my gaming group to play the scenarios anymore...we finished on Dawn's first one (naturally). As others have stated, it simply wasn't fun. We stick with the skirmishes now, but I actually want to get back to the story of it all, and oddly, I actually like being told exactly which tile goes where and the little extra rules for things. Seems too little, too late for the original stuff, but here's hoping the expansions can still tell a decent story while having it equally fun for both sides.

[Spiff]

Maybe you'd like to give my One-Shot Scenarios a try.  They have the extra rules and setup instructions like you like, on a single page each for each one.  Unfortunately, they're not fully balanced yet (I pulled many of them from the scenario books), but the more people who try them out and give feedback, the sooner we can get to a well balanced set of scenarios that are fun to play.

[morph147]

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silopolis wrote:

My wife and I tried to play Citizen Dawn's first scenario, and she got super frustrated with how difficult it is to win as the Citizens. It made us hesitant to try other scenarios, especially on my end, because I know that if she gets turned off from the game, I'll likely never get to play it again. ;) Meanwhile, we both enjoyed the skirmish or two we've played, but we missed the story aspect, and it felt odd having Legacy trying to KO his own daughter.So I figured I'd ask here: What scenarios are well balanced and fun? We have both the core set and Uprising.Also: I've read a bit about an Ambuscade scenario, but I only see one for the Operative in my Uprising box. Where can I get Ambuscade's stuff? And is there one for Prole?  

1) Starting with the Dawn scenarios is not the greatest idea. They progress in complexity and difficulty in my experience. Storywise the timeline goes Baron Blade, Omnitron, then Dawns, and that's the order I'd play them. Baron's 1st and 3rd are really great I think (the 2nd is really just a setup for the 3rd when you play through all 3 as a campaign). All of Omnitron's are pretty decent as well. 2) It is worth noting that every scenario will actually slightly favor one side over the other. In the case of the first Dawn scenario, it's been brought up before on the forums that winning as the citizens is extremely hard. I actually have never played through the Dawn scenario's myself (idk how, its on my to-do list). I'd refer to Skippy for advice on this one.3) The Uprising scenario book is 4 scenario's long. 1 Operative, 1 Ambuscade, 1 Proletariat, then 1 last one where they all fight together. None of the Uprising villains have a stand alone 3 scenario campaign, as their storys are sorta tied in together.

 

how would you play the 3rd baron blade scenario without playing the second?

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@morph147

how would you play the 3rd baron blade scenario without playing the second?

You can play any of the scenarios stand alone. Just ignore the "if X won, then Y" conditions for setup.

Blade would start with 0 turrets in play (so just choose the pylon positions carefully) but he would have access to all 4 turret types. That would seem to be a reasonable way to start.

You may adjust that to your groups liking though.