Weather in RTW - Like STW or MTW?

[Jambo]

Is the weather system better than the relatively uninteresting MTW one?

Can one get the cool heavy fogs and snow blizzards that made for some really interesting fights in STW?

And can the attacker still pick the weather on the day they decide to fight?

[Sjakihata]

oh yeah! I remember the very heavy fog days, that was awesome!

[Thoros of Myr]

I've seen heavy fog, sandstorms, rain, and blizzards. You can probly wait to change the weather but I've never bothered to try it :)

[TinCow]

I don't think you can pick your weather, but perhaps it changes if the battle lasts long enough. My only experience with weather so far was a huge thunderstorm during one of my most desperate defensive battles. Made great atmosphere.

[Tamur]

Yes, if you wait the weather does change... I had one standoff last night that started with clear blue skies on a cold winter day, clouded over, then started snowing lightly and suddenly had a howling blizzard for a bit. Was very cool. Cold, I mean.

[Spino]

One thing for sure is that the weather does not change once you've committed to battle on a given day. The AI once again besieged a city of mine where I had a clear numerical and qualitative advantage over the sieging troops. I sortied out to meet them and it was raining. Since I had 5 Roman archer units which are useless in wet weather I hit Ctrl-T to speed up the time and hoped for clear skies, just like I used to do in Medieval... no dice. I left the time compression on for a looong time and the rain never let up. So I stayed inside the city walls, ended the battle in a draw and then sortied out again, this time under a sunny sky.