Interpreting terrain information

[johndoesecond]

Hi all,

I thought I understood well the terrain information that pops up with right-click, but now maybe I'm confused.

I believe I understand "Foot" and "Mot" values (it's the percentage of the full speed that unit can develop in the most favorable conditions (i.e. road or better for foot troops, and hightway for motorised troops)).

But I don't quite get how the other two values ("Direct hit" and "Area hit") are to be interpreted. I've looked thoroughly in the manual, and I understand the difference between direct and area fire, but my question is: the percentage of what are these values about?
I mean, if we follow the logic of "Foot" and "Moot" values, there should be something we should think of as having 100%, but I found no such terrain: the highest values (33%) I found are for "Clear", and all the others are less.

So, what would 100% be? How do we intuitively "get" those values?

And if "Clear" was indeed meant to have the highest possible value, why then not re-normalise the values to have "Clear" 100% and all the others subsequently rescaled?

Thanks.

[Lieste]

Difference between theoretical/range values and practical "in the field" values for accuracy?
People can be very good at finding 'something' to hide behind (a 6" fold in the ground will provide cover and concealment from a firer at ground level - and this is more-or-less parkland flat).

[simovitch]

I think the Map Maker Manual describes it pretty well; did you check that?

[johndoesecond]

ORIGINAL: simovitch

I think the Map Maker Manual describes it pretty well; did you check that?

No, I didn't think of that!

Good read.

Thanks Simovitch.

And Lieste, yes, in general you were correct. Thanks.

[Arjuna]

Clarification re hit effects. If we showed the values for firing at undeployed targets, then yes you would see values up to 100%. But we decided that would give users an unreal expectation of the likely results when their un its fire at a target. Even if currently undeployed the target unit will take cover immediately and deploy within 5 to ten minutes. So we opted to show the hit effects against deployed targets.

[johndoesecond]

ORIGINAL: Arjuna

Clarification re hit effects. If we showed the values for firing at undeployed targets, then yes you would see values up to 100%. But we decided that would give users an unreal expectation of the likely results when their un its fire at a target. Even if currently undeployed the target unit will take cover immediately and deploy within 5 to ten minutes. So we opted to show the hit effects against deployed targets.

That was the missing link!

Thanks Dave.