How do you choose your battlefield?

**Megas Methuselah** · 05-20-2008, 03:29

Originally Posted by LorDBulA

Battles in forests are fun, unless you are cavalry heavy or fight in one of the very dense forests with huge trees.
Still in many cases even in tree heavy map you can find small or medium openings in the trees and fight there, it looks really amazing. Add to it few small hills on the map and you get very interesting terrain.
Plain flat maps are just boring.

I migrated to Carthage as the Pahlava yesterday and fought a battle just outside of Utica. Much to my surprise, despite there being so signs of it on the campaign map, the battlefield was a huge forest.

Yeah, I withdrew.

Originally Posted by Dhampir

Well, it's probably more accurately shows the difficulty of commanding troops in a forest.

Can I please have that balloon?

**Timoleon** · 05-20-2008, 07:41

Yeah, some factions get a massive bonus fighting in forests. Most notably Lusotannan, they can get up to +4 moral while some enemies can get -2 or more?

I didn't know that! This make my heroic victories is Iberia even more...heroic.
Which other factions get these bonuses? The Gauls?

**Ibrahim** · 05-21-2008, 04:26

in my case, I will quote Robert E. lee in the movie Gettysburg:

"from Behind, in front, we will attack the enemy wherever he is"

I don't care where; I just fight..

**Dhampir** · 05-21-2008, 05:03

Originally Posted by Ibrahim

in my case, I will quote Robert E. lee in the movie Gettysburg:

"from Behind, in front, we will attack the enemy wherever he is"

I don't care where; I just fight..

Do you wear a really bad fake beard as you do it.

**Ibrahim** · 05-21-2008, 05:10

Originally Posted by Dhampir

Do you wear a really bad fake beard as you do it?

dream on dhampir

actually, if you could obtain for me a union army uniform (say 8th Ohio), that would be what I'd wear to EB.

**mini** · 05-21-2008, 08:11

I only hate it when i have to fight in a forest when there's no tree to be seen on the campaign map. There was no way I could have avoided it

If my stack is standing in forest area on the campaign map, then I fight the batle. The prize to pay for not paying attention :)

**Cambyses** · 05-21-2008, 08:42

It entirely depends on what faction Im playing. Any western barbarians I will look for forested areas as they gave me an advantage. Greek type troops and Romans have trouble in the woods, so I avoid them. I very rarely withdraw from battles however. Unless my reinforcements are "delayed" that is...

pcaravel, all info for bonuses etc is on the recruitment viewer.