Mountains and hills

**Martok** · 09-26-2006, 00:27

Originally Posted by The Wizard

We need to have terrain back. Where in MTW and Shoggy we fought uphill in a blizzard facing pavise arbalesters with nothing more than urban militia, you youngins had it easy with your Dutch battlefields and your praetorians, squaring off against head-throwing lunatics.

Good old days... kids got no more respect these days.

LOL! We do sound like a bunch of old geezers at times, don't we?

But I digress. From some of the screenshots I've seen, it looks like the steep terrain has made a return to Medieval 2; and for that I'm glad.

**Azog 150** · 09-27-2006, 11:14

i remeber shogun, and being pretty pants at it. The only clan i could win it with were the oda, but my favorate clan was either the mori and the takedawa(sp?) Still a great game though. Mongol invasion was too easy, i won the game as the mongols in litterally half an hour just auto-resolving the battles.

**Bagpuss** · 10-15-2006, 20:24

steep terrain
Im also chuffed (Glad ) that we are going to have to set out strategies for fighting in these areas an mountain ranges like MTW, Hurrah .. :)

**blahblahblah** · 10-16-2006, 03:49

Originally Posted by Martok

LOL! We do sound like a bunch of old geezers at times, don't we?

I might sound like one too, because I've never played RTW other than the demo. And I love MTW a lot.

From the Agincourt in M2TW demo, I moved everybody to the very back where there's that mountain. The hills apparently affected the Frenchie's fatigueness and morale quite a lot when they run uphill watching the hail of flaming arrows come down.

I don't know what it was like for the terrain in RTW, but I'm sure it'll have a pretty drastic affect on how people use their troops.

**JR-** · 10-16-2006, 10:18

good

**Empirate** · 10-16-2006, 16:48

As far as I understand videos, screenshots and designer commentary, there will be "steep hillsides" as in "unaccessibly steep hillsides". Apart from these, terrain looks quite mellow to me. I hope there will be a lot of rocks and other stuff on the battlefield that most troops can't go over but must walk around. If there were skirmisher units lightly enough armed to scale cliffsides and rocks, that would be a cool feature! Especially if they had a missile attack...

**Barkhorn1x** · 10-16-2006, 17:12

I too welcome the return of more varied terrain and am happy it will actually have some effect on battles.

To be fair to RTW, ancient armies pretty much did fight almost exclusively on open terrain. There were exceptions of course - but not that many.

Barkhorn.