your prefered landscapes :)

[gollum]

I would have really liked the mountains/hills much more than i do if the AI was more adept at exploiting them defensively and more apt at attcking in them. My personal favorites for terrain are rolling hills and flats, then hills, then mountains.

[caravel]

I would have really liked the mountains/hills much more than i do if the AI was more adept at exploiting them defensively and more apt at attcking in them. My personal favorites for terrain are rolling hills and flats, then hills, then mountains.

This is only a real issue with the hugely mountainous maps such as the Scotland ones. The AI handles the hills ok so long as you don't outright edge/corner camp. It certainly handles hill better than it did in some of the later games.

Yohei

[gollum]

Indeed - that was probably partly why RTW maps were flat mostly. However, sometimes i do feel cheated from how easy it is to defend against the AI attacking against highground. However he is not as inept as in RTW and later to be outmaneuvered from the highground as the player attacks.

I personally feel that rolling hills give the most "equal" opportunities and variety to both player and the AI in using them tactically and even strategically.

By the way i remember old mpers testifying that Totomi in STW that had very small bumps in an otherwise flat map, saw ferocious battles with diminishing forces in order to control them as they provided a good firing platform and an advantage in melee.

[caravel]

It depends on starting position and if you are the attacker or defender. I find some hilly maps to be a big challenge when you start facing up hill to the enemy. It seems that some of those maps are designed in such a way that you cannot exploit the hills. I agree though, the rolling hills are best.

What about woods?

Yohei

[gollum]

Very much important tactically - some times can even make the difference between victory and defeat. And as an added plus they are really well proportioned to the camera view and the sprites - something that no later tw game managed to achieve. I think that the sprites in MTW are a bit smaller than the STW sprites and the woods in MTW are a bit less dense overall. Both good moves - and the tree models are very nice too in all landscapes.