One enjoyable aspect of narrative battles is the creation of scenarios that help tell tales of the noble and ignoble adventures of the armies in your collection. Creating a scenario can be as simple as mixing and matching elements of different published scenarios. Alternatively, you may wish to go further still, creating your own deployment maps and victory conditions.

But what of the story itself? Why are these armies meeting to do battle and where is this battle taking place? The following sections offer some suggestions for the two most important aspects of any narrative scenario: the location and the motive.