Who is Playing What?

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I found a challenge on the Civil War Game Club board for a campaign of Overland from a tester (after I had left the testing team) - found it too much to resist.

The condition was that I, as the Union player, had to select the western swing option.

When testing like that, does the designer ask the Rebel player to play without knowing which option the Union player has been asked to use? Or was the request by the opponent/designer, and if so, how will you factor in that intel?

In this case it isn't testing - just playing against a guy on the play test credits. But as a more general answer I suppose it would be up to the Lead Scenario Designer as to how they want to handle feedback.

I know that my own approach will be based upon my experience as a tester. I am going to remove myself from the process entirely so as not to bias any answer -after all feedback is what I am after not an affirmation of my own opinion. However that is all hypothetical ;).


Mind you - I ought to be playing some Dutch Revolt material from Ren, instead, against an opponent instead of the AI - but maybe I will get to that a little later.