El Alamein scores

Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War III is the next game in the award-winning Operational Art of War game series. TOAW3 is updated and enhanced version of the TOAW: Century of Warfare game series. TOAW3 is a turn based game covering operational warfare from 1850-2015. Game scale is from 2.5km to 50km and half day to full week turns. TOAW3 scenarios have been designed by over 70 designers and included over 130 scenarios. TOAW3 comes complete with a full game editor.

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damezzi
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El Alamein scores

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I was taking a look at the El Alamein scenario which comes with Toaw to see if it was worth playing. Since only the German PO is available, I ran a PO only game to see how it would perform. I've seen that it is able to win most of the time, but only if capturing El Daba. The fact is that once in a while (I ran it multiple times), it wasn't able to capture it and would get a draw, at best. The briefing states that if the British player can hold El Daba in the last turns it gains a bonus. Looking at the results, even if the Germans can hold almost all the map and inflict a lot more damage, without El Daba its score is negative or very low. Since, even against an unprogrammed english PO the Germans can fail capturing El Daba, it will be very easy for a human to hold on.

Has someone already played this scenario? Is there a version with tweaked scoring criteria?

I didn't play the scenario, so, maybe I'm just ignoring some event or the like. Ok, I could try it before asking, but since my time availability is low at the moment, I have to be selective.
damezzi
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RE: El Alamein scores

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I've just realized that while writing in a hurry, I just inverted the roles of germans and british, but the logic continues the same. I think I have to take a rest.
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