Hi all!

I want to run a free battle mode soon, and was arranging some boards yesterday to test out the mechanic of just picking some boards and arranging them to make a nice battlefield.

But I felt out of my depth haha! "One side has to much houses, I need to add some to the other side" was a thought that I had for instance. "Do I need to give the non cover side, more points?" was another.

I've never run a free battle mode and was wondering what tips people have that have ran them.

Do you try to make balanced maps? How do you pick the forces? If I pick a tank, do you make sure the other side has AT weapons?

Cool! Thanks for the insights.

And terrain elements like buildings and cover? I can imagine battles can turn out more fun if you have one side that has more cover for instance. If I need to attack a village from the woods for instance.

Is that how you run it as well? Just plot down boards and elements and go with the flow?

You know, a road with a bunker next to it… and not simply the bunker dropped randomly in the middle of a forest where the underlying structure doesn't make sense.

Yes exactly! That's what I was experimenting with but it ended up one sided. But like you said, that is more realistically.

And your example is a nice one as well! Thanks for sharing. That's the one that convinced me to buy the roads and railroads 😉

I'll try the go with the flow one first, and if we don't like it we can use the approach from your competitive map.

Nice, that's always a nice one, thanks! I think we can use the maximize fun of the game however 😀 I'll keep it in my mind if we don't think this was the most fun haha

Facebook group can upload the pictures more convenient, but here's mine recent played map:

For the tips of free battle mode, I would like to know what's your most played scenario/game version(V1, HoS or BRO), then I can suggest my army core.