Mountains and hills

[blahblahblah]

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-]

good

[Empirate]

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]

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.