newbie question on MTW weather

[stimozi]

I'm a shogun vet who has just moved to MTW. I haven't noticed much weather in the battles, just varying degrees of rain. I've already played through 2 SP campaigns. Where's the fog, snow, etc??

[The Tuffen]

I'm not entirly sure how it is worked out. I think i read somewhere on here that you have to have 3-4 battles in the same year and one of those will be in snow. Also welcome to the forums

[Snowhobbit]

Citera[/b] (The Tuffen @ Feb. 01 2004,02:25)]I'm not entirly sure how it is worked out. I think i read somewhere on here that you have to have 3-4 battles in the same year and one of those will be in snow. Also welcome to the forums
To explain it a little deeper, the first battle is in the spring, the second in the summer and the third in autumn, all the others take place during the winter.

[Gregoshi]

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif Welcome to the Org stimozi.

Alas, the marvelous weather in STW was lost in MTW. I do miss the variety of weather in STW - it really added to the game's atmosphere. I guess to be fair, weather in MTW is complicated by the yearly turns and the wide variety of climates - from desert to sub-arctic.

[cutepuppy]

With VI the first battle is in summer, the second in winter. Never had more than 2 battles in a turn. I had different types of weather. Lightly raining, heavy downpour, sunny, tunderstorms, sandstorms, blizzards,... But no fog.

[Queen Lauralanthalasa Solostaran]

I miss Shogun's weather system too.

[Quessa]

I miss that Shogun's weather system as well. But, in M:TW I never learnt to miss it since all I hope for is a cloudless sky so I can fill that gap with my cloud of arrows (too bad they move too fast for trying to see a nice little shape in them). Really, a heart-shaped folley could be an interesting sight, at least there would a happy sight before the end of all things.

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[Gregoshi]

Good point about not missing it but as I recall, there seemed to be a less likely chance of missing bad weather in STW.

The fog: there was nothing quite like the anxious feeling of slowly groping around in the fog trying to find the enemy and hoping your army was not in a bad position when the enemy finally revealed itself, ghost-like, in the fog.

[stimozi]

Thanks guys.

I think they should've kept seasons in for the VI campaign :/

[TonkaToys]

Not quite on topic, but do terrain features have an effect on the battles. I don't mean the obvious ones like trees, rivers and hills, etc, but the less obvious ones like hedges, ploughed fields and roads?
I thought the hedges helped when I played the Agincourt historic battle, but since then they don't seem to have factored much.

[Goofball]

I like the weather in MTW. I also find it makes a big difference in combat. I had a unit of enemy archers in a sandstorm fire their complete loan of ammo at my spearmen (who were standing still) and I only took one casualty.

[kiwitt]

The Weather, eg. sandstorms, rain and wind, snow and fog, makes it real.