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    Typing from the Saddle Senior Member Doug-Thompson's Avatar
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    Default How do heat, terrain modifiers "work"?

    If a cavalry unit has a -4 penalty for forests, for instance, how does that work? Is attack reduced by 4, or what?

    Then there's things like heat penalties, which I assume tires a unit out faster, which creates morale and movement penalties.

    Then there's camels and elephants and all that.
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    Default Re: How do heat, terrain modifiers "work"?

    Are there 'winter penalties'? There should be for Russia

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    Default Re: How do heat, terrain modifiers "work"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ulstan
    Are there 'winter penalties'? There should be for Russia

    Yes -- for snow.

    There are penalties for:

    Snow
    Heat
    Sand
    Scrub
    Forest
    Fighting a camel
    Fighting an elephant

    and ...

    Others I forgot
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    Default Re: How do heat, terrain modifiers "work"?

    I also wonder what the effect of weather is... Some missile units have a "don't work well in rain" attribute, but I don't know what it really does, if it affects snow as well, what is the precise effect of fog...

    Or even Fatigue, come to think about it. I know that an Exhausted unit will fight worse than a Fresh one... but how worse exactly ? :/
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    Default Re: How do heat, terrain modifiers "work"?

    Not worse enough to matter, in my experience.

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    Default Re: How do heat, terrain modifiers "work"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kobal2fr
    I also wonder what the effect of weather is... Some missile units have a "don't work well in rain" attribute, but I don't know what it really does, if it affects snow as well, what is the precise effect of fog...

    Or even Fatigue, come to think about it. I know that an Exhausted unit will fight worse than a Fresh one... but how worse exactly ? :/
    usually when i see units tire out, they just route more easily, and also seem to move slower...


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    Default Re: How do heat, terrain modifiers "work"?

    Well, I'm a little relieved to see that I'm not the only one who doesn't know this. Still, I'd rather have the information.
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    I don't know it either. One thing I can tell you though, in vanilla it does'nt make enough of a difference. Only in extreme cases it matters (as in the Mongol custom battle challenge). In LTC 2.30 it seems to matter more, Lusted is probably your man. Unless I'm imagining it in LTC 2.30 I actually have to be careful how I move my army about because they seem to tire a lot faster.
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    Default Re: How do heat, terrain modifiers "work"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sinan
    I don't know it either. One thing I can tell you though, in vanilla it does'nt make enough of a difference. Only in extreme cases it matters (as in the Mongol custom battle challenge). In LTC 2.30 it seems to matter more, Lusted is probably your man. Unless I'm imagining it in LTC 2.30 I actually have to be careful how I move my army about because they seem to tire a lot faster.
    Indeed the heat effect has been increased in LTC 2.3.

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    Default Re: How do heat, terrain modifiers "work"?

    @Sinan : yah, moving and more importantly FIGHTING tires them a heck of a lot. And since kill rates have apparently been also lowered a tad, it makes fatigue much more important. On the whole, it feels pretty much like MTW/VI did, except that crusaders don't tire just standing still in the desert heat anymore.
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    Default Re: How do heat, terrain modifiers "work"?

    without the log files like in MTW i think none has been to decipher them yet.

    but like sinan says the affects are way too toned down in M2 except for the elephant dread affects. i just hate to see trined men just run grrrrr

    even the dont work well in rain dont seem to make much difference in MTW it was a real libility to have too many archers in the rain.
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