Cliffs

[The Blind Samurai]

will you be able to drive enemys off cliffs so that they fall to their deaths it would make a great feature

[wkndwrrr]

That WOULD be interesting. It would add a whole new level of tactical depth to use the terrain to your advantage. I wonder if you will also be able to drive enemies into oceans or lakes in M2, a la Hannibal @ Lake Trasimine.

[The Blind Samurai]

i think you can do that but just the thought of men screaming as they fall to their deaths and elephants screaming when they fall and horses whinig as they fall

[SirGrotius]

haha, you know, that would be interesting. Troops already fight with different stats when corned, and trapped against a cliff could be a similar situation.

[Tamur]

Good question. I suppose it's a possibility since men can fall from walls in cities. That would add a great tactical option on maps where the enemy will be camping ranged units on the top of cliffs. This was one of the ways the Spartans were rumoured to have done so much damage at Thermopylae, pushing the Persian column into the sea.

[Orda Khan]

Theoretically it should be the case, though it may not work quite that way. If the terrain feature is impassable we may find units bunching at the cliff edge because they can not go further. The trapped unit would go into survival mode anyway and fight harder, so much easier to give your enemy an 'escape' route. Men die far easier when running away

.....Orda

[Sun of Chersonesos]

i agree

[Azog 150]

still would be incredibly cool to do. Also if you hit them with arrows if they are on the edge some guys could fall, that wouldnt add much tactical aspects, but it would look incredibly cool, espeicailly if they are on fire.

[The Blind Samurai]

it would look very cool do think some one could mod it

[Oaty]

As far as trapping an enemy, that was in RTW. If you atacked an enemy with there back to a large body of water, they would usually fight to the death, and would only route if they had a near straight path to continuous land. Now that MTW II has included more unpassable terrain it may be possible. So it is either in or bodies will pile up at the top of the cliff. Would be nice but not a gamemaker.

[The Blind Samurai]

it would look very nice and why not have anamils in the game like wild horses and elephants and gazlle etc

[Martok]

it would look very nice and why not have anamils in the game like wild horses and elephants and gazlle etc

It's unnecessary detail, and by most accounts the graphics are going to tax most people's machines as it is.

[The Blind Samurai]

oh yeah i frogot but do you think theyll inculde cliffs in the expasion because i know there is going to be one