Terrain under Mouse

[genehaynes]

What does "Infantry cost" mean in the Terrain under Mouse info? I think there's also Artillery / Cavalry cost.

[zakblood]

how much it would cost a given unit to move through it

[genehaynes]

zakblood,

Not sure I understand your explanation. When you say "how much it would cost", are you referring to MPs? Most hexes DO NOT include Inf / Cav / Art "Cost" message at all, and when the message is included there's no indication of MPs, it just says "Inf cost" for example. It doesn't effect game play, I was just wondering what the message meant. Again, thanks for your help, appreciate it.

[Chromey]

yeah some terrain says defence or defend on them but are just plain empty terrain I wondeer what does those mean also ? [&:]

[Gil R.]

Sorry, forgot to respond sooner to this thread. It sounds like you are seeing hexes that have been modified via the map-editor's override function, which we use when the terrain is slightly different from one of the generic terrain types. Aceous, are you sure that the hexes in question were empty, or might they have shown a different-looking vegetation? If you post a screenshot I can tell you what's happening. (This system gives us far greater flexibility in terms of nuanced terrain, and our hope is that by looking at the map you will see that the terrain somewhere looks a bit different and check its values)

Somewhere in the forum is a screenshot I posted very soon after release in which I showed a half-dozen or more vegetation types at Wilson's Creek. Worth consulting to get a sense of this.

[Chromey]

check out Wilsons creek coord 100,104. A grassy hex that contains Tallgrass1, height3, and defence. Just what does defence mean?

[Yogi the Great]

ORIGINAL: Aceous

check out Wilsons creek coord 100,104. A grassy hex that contains Tallgrass1, height3, and defence. Just what does defence mean?

Remember Pickett's charge they had to get over defence.

Or was that the fence? [:'(]

[Gil R.]

I didn't look at that particular hex, but the presence of a defensive override means I was trying to fine-tune the terrain type. See the image I posted here:
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