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I would love to see scenarios in which we look at the initial phase of the game: The placing of armies to claim territories and then the placing of armies to reinforce those territories before th first player gets to attack. 

The scenarios should be both empty or near empty maps, maps partially filled in and those filled in, but still need reinforcements.  You can even do a bunch of mini-scenarios in a, "What would be your next move," kind of vain and allow people to answer them live or through the forum. 

I mentioned this on an earlier thread for having the ability to create and post your own scenarios.  Having this feature in that program would add to its versatility. 

Your new scenario/map editor is a great tool and it has the flexibility built in that is needed for these intial phase scenarios. We can even do it for any phase of the game, the middle and end games as well as the opening moves.

However, I have yet to see any such scenarios on the website. Perhaps a way to increase participation on your website would be to include chess-like examples and scenarios. Give us a few "quizzes" on how to set up your game after some introduction to basic tactics on these specific ideas. Then move on to games that we can play, you give us the intial set-up and we are to respond with our moves. You can then take the responses and essentially play the game through the use of die rolls and standard tactics or even show several branches, this is how it would end up if you used strategy A and that is how it would end up if you use strategy B, but here is how it really ended up . . . and then you can plot the moves out on a day by day basis and eventually get to the end, and then summarize what happened. Something like that would rock, hopefully increase the participation rate and seem more like you are playing a game on the website while also involved in discussions.