Question: winter movement

[Mobhack]

Clear terrain snow is bad enough just now, trying to slog across it with infantry etc at +1 per hex.

Now, if we made it +2 a hex, then winter battles would never get anywhere, especially assaults/attacks.

Just think of clear snow terrain as being a dusting of the stuff an inch or so perhaps - not 4-5 inches of it. That is the snowdrifts type terrain 9with its attendant sticking risks).


Cheers
Andy

[Mario_Fr]

Well, thanks for the answer, I can see that. But maybe it would be quite interesting, that "winter battles would never get anywhere, especially assaults/attacks", except when you use the roads. There would be a lot more draws, or you have to use ski-troops and all-tracked vehicles for assaults.
Two more questions: What do you think about increasing movement cost for trees (summer / winter) for vehicles? Right now it`s 4 for tracked vehicles, so tanks can normally move there 3-4 hexes (infantry can move only 2 hexes) and halftracks 4-5. But to my mind vehicles in any case have to be not faster in trees than infantry.
Second question: Is there a possibility to make an editor for movement cost? As I understood from your reply it`s possible to change it. Or maybe there is an easy way to change it (by hex-editor) so I can do it by myself?

Best regards

Mario

[Griefbringer]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

Just think of clear snow terrain as being a dusting of the stuff an inch or so perhaps - not 4-5 inches of it. That is the snowdrifts type terrain 9with its attendant sticking risks).

Perspectives may vary, but to me 4-5 inches of snow sounds still like relatively light coverage - though certainly enough to slow down movement.

Then again, that might have to do something with the fact that there is currently around 20 inches worth of snow outside my house - certainly enough to make movement very difficult on areas that have not been cleared of snow. And on areas that have been cleared of snow, there are likely to be walls of snow on the sides of the road, where the snow has been ploughed - making it more difficult to move from the ploughed road to the areas of fresh snow.