Fighting in the woods

[Specky the Mad]

or if you did not check to see which way the wind was blowing and the fire comes back and bites you the on that tender place, and if people think its hard to keep track of your units with just trees in the way imagine the chaos when their is a huge bush fire that you created heading your way.

That would also make the Sherwood archers more dynamic in their function as a ambushing unit being able to decimate the enemy as you could start a fire close to the enemy as they get a camouflage bonus in woods that would trap the enemy forcing them to run for their lives, you would pin them in between a sword and hot place and then see a massive chain route as it is a everyman for himself situation.

[Booga]

I'm getting mental images of Bambi from this whole thing. I love it :D

[nikolai1962]

i find it nearly impossibbile to carry out coherent plans in those environments as I often have no idea what any of my own or the enemy forces are doing or even where they've got to when they've moved from their original positions

I love forest battles for precisely those reasons :)

Even better with minimal UI. Light cavalry to go find the enemy, march your army up close then just charge whatever you can see. Great fun. Or even better; in RTR i pretty much covered the entirety of germania with trees and sat and waited for big stacks of macedonian phalanxes to come get my little armies of under-dressed germans. So cool.