Burning bridges (one by one)

[RRMike]

Oh yeah, they never got Kiev. In fact, I was struggling to replace losses at Kiev so I just moved in against kazhar with my armies from Volga, prev, rhyzan, Chernigov and Kiev and beat them soundly against 3-1 odds. The horde simply has no answer for halberds and pavise arbs.

You should try Russia high. I think it's way easier than byz high.

[Gilrandir]

An interesting (and illogical) thing that I noticed in my last campaign: the river borders between two provinces are not river borders either way. For example if you move from Serbia into Hungary you will cross the river, but if the opposite way - no river in the offing. I didn't actually fight those two battles. The province info parchments show there is and there is no river respectively on the army's way. Perhaps there are some more strange borders with a disappearing river. I spotted one more - between Denmark and Saxony. Did anyone make a similar observation? It beats all comprehension.

[drone]

The border battlefield types are defined in the startpos file, and you have to define them each way between provinces. Several do not have identical types for both ways, there are many cases where it's mountains one way but hills the other. It makes sense if you take into account that the battle does not necessarily take place right on the border, the defender may cede ground into the province for a more defensible position. If the border between the provinces is a river, then both ways should be (I imagine). With the Denmark/Saxony border, I'll have to compare the borders to a modern map, maybe the defenders pull behind the Elbe?

[Gilrandir]

If the border between the provinces is a river, then both ways should be (I imagine).

At least in some cases I mentioned it is not.

With the Denmark/Saxony border, I'll have to compare the borders to a modern map, maybe the defenders pull behind the Elbe?

Real world geography does not always rule in the game. Mostly the game river borders can be equalled to real world rivers, but the latter do not always feature in the game.