Incorrect snow level increase during blizzard?

[Stamb]

Manual says that during blizzard minimum snow lvl increase is 2.

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In the server game vs Leumas on turn 24 i had at least lvl 6 snow everywhere near the front line (and actually far behind it too).

On turn 25 blizzard hits a good chunk of the front and now some hexes have lvl 7 snow.

6+2=8 and not 7.

Is blizzard bugged?

[Joel Billings]

I downloaded the saves from the server. Will look into if this is a documentation issue or something not WAD in the code. Thanks.

[Joel Billings]

There are several things not mentioned in the manual, and one that is clearly wrong in the manual. Years ago (probably pre-release) blizzard was changed so that snow only goes up 1-2 points per turn, not 2-4. The thing about blizzard is that there is no melting going on. It represents very cold weather, but not necessarily a huge amount of precipitation.

Snowfall is different in that, as stated in the mild winter rules, it goes up by 1+die(2), or 2-3 normally, but only die(2), 1-2 during mild winters. But there's a caveat to this. If the snow is already 7 or above, instead of going up, it will instead drop 1 level. So a 7 would become a 6 (an 8 would become a 7). During mild winters, if already over 7, it would drop 2, so a 7 would become a 5. So the statement that snowfall goes up between 1 and 3 per turn up to level 7 is somewhat misleading, and also not accounting for the fact that if a hex was a 7 already, it would actually drop down to a 6 or 5 (depending on if it was a mild winter).

The game is working as designed, just not as documented. I will reference this for a future living manual update. Thanks.