Why haven't I ever fought a winter battle in a campain before?

**Graphic** · 09-09-2005, 00:17

What's the deal?

**Joshwa** · 09-09-2005, 00:42

I havn't fought many either, i think in ye olden times they didnt fight during the winter, only when the weather was fair. I mean, if youre going to die you might at least die on a nice day!

**tigger_on_vrb** · 09-09-2005, 01:33

I think if you fight several battles in one turn then the battles cycle through the seasons, you only really notice though if you fight somewhere way up north as the winter in the desert aint much different. I have fought severla winter battles, but they have all been in Scandinavia and the north east of the map.

**ichi** · 09-09-2005, 05:31

Normally the third or fourth battle on any one turn will be winter.

ichi

**Graphic** · 09-09-2005, 07:01

Ah, I see. Thanks.

**EatYerGreens** · 09-09-2005, 19:00

That's interesting, ichi.

I can't say I've ever noticed this before but it's probably down to my playing style where I elect to only commit to one battle per turn and any additional battles are (generally unexpected) actions initiated by the AI.

Until now, I thought the whole winter business was like a leftover from Shogun days, code ported over into the game and then, at some stage, they changed the system to one year per turn and never got around to removing the code for season changes. Good to see it still has a purpose of some kind.

**Geezer57** · 09-12-2005, 19:17

Originally Posted by ichi

Normally the third or fourth battle on any one turn will be winter.

ichi

I just had a year with six battles and can confirm Ichi's findings. Four battles were in Northern or Central Europe, the final two were in the Trebizond & Georgia. The third and fourth battles (Europe) were both in snow.

**Budwise** · 09-13-2005, 08:04

Originally Posted by ichi

Normally the third or fourth battle on any one turn will be winter.

ichi

I've seen first battle, once.

**bretwalda** · 09-13-2005, 12:49

Originally Posted by Budwise

I've seen first battle, once.

Was that the only attack? Or the enemy or you retreated without fighting battles earlier? Also if there were more battles afterward were they winter battles, as well? Just interested...