Quote Originally Posted by hoom
Well, Shogun & Medieval didn't use tiles either.
You could place your armies/agents anywhere within each province.
You could place your armies anywhere in the province but that the positioning of a stack within the province was irrelevant to the resulting battle map terrain, which was always determined by the origin of the invader.
Quote Originally Posted by LadyAnn
Not true! Each province in STW and MTW is an ugly big fat tile (and who said tiles must be squared?)
This is true in a sense. Every province in STW/MTW had a predetermined set of random maps for the castles, the terrain types for border crossings and for battles within a province such as revolts or civil wars.