How do you choose your battlefield?

**Timoleon** · 05-18-2008, 19:54

I have some difficulties choosing a favorable battlefield in my current EB 1.1 campaign.
I place my armies in places in the campaign map that seem to have an altitude advantage but when the battle starts in my surprise the enemy owns the high ground!
Does anyone have the same problem? Is there any way to positively know the landscape of the battlefield by examining the campaign map?

**Lysimachos** · 05-18-2008, 20:28

Originally Posted by pcaravel

I have some difficulties choosing a favorable battlefield in my current EB 1.1 campaign.
I place my armies in places in the campaign map that seem to have an altitude advantage but when the battle starts in my surprise the enemy owns the high ground!
Does anyone have the same problem? Is there any way to positively know the landscape of the battlefield by examining the campaign map?

If you position your army on top of a hill on the campaign map the hill will be in the middle of the battlefield, so you'd face uphill. If you position your army in a way that the top of the hill is behind it on campaign map, they will stand on higher ground in the battle.

**overweightninja** · 05-18-2008, 20:32

This is kinda off topic but along the same lines so I'll ask here anyway...
Has anyone else noticed there seems to be more forest fights in 1.1? The amount of times I've picked a plain to fight on only for the battle map to load up and the whole area covered in trees, gets a little irritating (I HATE forest battles

).
Anyway is this just me?
Cheers

**Korlon** · 05-18-2008, 20:37

I don't choose my battlefield. I just fight where ever, unless it's a damn forest map. I withdraw from those.

**Nobo** · 05-18-2008, 21:21

Yea, I don't really choose a battlefield... i try to avoid forests, but that never really seems to work out anymore

**General Aetius** · 05-18-2008, 21:27

overweightninja-You get a lot of open land in the east

general aetius

**Cartaphilus** · 05-18-2008, 21:48

Originally Posted by Korlon

I don't choose my battlefield. I just fight where ever, unless it's a damn forest map. I withdraw from those.

I do the same.

**-Praetor-** · 05-19-2008, 03:13

Originally Posted by Cartaphilus

I do the same.

Unless I`m a barbarian, in which case the battle turns out to be a gigantic ambush and head collecting fest.

**Dhampir** · 05-18-2008, 21:37

Originally Posted by overweightninja

This is kinda off topic but along the same lines so I'll ask here anyway...
Has anyone else noticed there seems to be more forest fights in 1.1? The amount of times I've picked a plain to fight on only for the battle map to load up and the whole area covered in trees, gets a little irritating (I HATE forest battles

).
Anyway is this just me?
Cheers

Absolutely. If the battlefield ends up being a forest, I just quit and take the loss.