                     PBEM Scenario Pack for Combat Mission

                              by Jose M. "El Cid" Cagigal                     Version 1.0   November, 2000



       This is a compilation of Combat Mission user-made scenarios suitable for head-to-head play. At this time there are 74 scenarios and 11 operations included.
 
        What's wrong with good old Quick Battles?  Nothing at all, but:
          1. User made scenarios are "thematic", based on historical situations, special tactical problems, or conversions from Advanced Squad Leader scenarios.
          2. They are nicely designed, and most of them intentionally conceived to be PBEM playable 
          3. Some of them are tiny or small size and still very interesting (small QB tend to be boring), making for fast and furious PBEM battles (and they will shine even more when the TCP/IP patch falls from Heaven)
          4. There are no strange OB's, desproportionate numbers of special units and such
          5. You can't "buy" your troops following your tastes; instead you're given a force that you must lead to victory, commander!

        My main sources for all these files has been mostly TGN CMHQ, and  "ASL Maps for Combat Mission":
                    http://combathq.thegamers.net/
                    http://w1.312.telia.com/~u31213280/index.htm

        I have selected these files based on player voting at CombatHQ as "human vs. human" play, or simply by the intention of the designer.
        I have renamed all the original scenario files with indicative suffixes, so you can select them easily on the scenario selection screen,  as follows:

              SL    A scenario based on an ASL scenario. These are great for veteran players of the boardgame (like me), but may result somewhat simple for non-ASL players.

             _Pbem   The scenario was designed intentionally as a H2H game, but it has not being publicly voted...yet (see below)

             _PBEM   The scenario was rated  3.5/5 for at least 10 players, or  4/5 for at least 2 players (this is to avoid  being misguided by the occasional vote of aunt Annie)

            _PBEM$  These are the Star scenarios: either 10 players voted them as 4/5 rating, or 15 players voted
as 3.5/5  (this is not very significant statistically, but there are not so many votes at CombatHQ...)
          

           This will make for a lot of almost double-named files for most of you, but it's easy to remove the non-suffixed ones (or if you don't like them, it's easier to delete the suffixed ones)

           What can you do to improve future updates of this compilation? After playing any of these scenarios, go to CombatHQ and give your vote for them. On the long run, this will make for an even more PBEM-suitable list of scenarios.


        INSTALLATION:   Easy! Unzip the whole file into your Cmbo\Scenarios  folder


                   Jose M. Cagigal

                     Barcelona, Spain
                      jmcagi@terra.es           for suggestions, complaints and cheerful salutes.          