Logical development

[FierceKitty]

Mmmm. I'm pretty well commited to the random movement distance method (with terrain and type modifiers) to give at least some recognition to the fact that the plain plain may sometimes be rough stuff when you've got your horse in the gorse.

[Chris Pringle]

Mmmm. I'm pretty well committed to the random movement distance method (with terrain and type modifiers) to give at least some recognition to the fact that the plain plain may sometimes be rough stuff when you've got your horse in the gorse.

For the Warring Empires rules I wrote years ago, rather than variable movement, I had variable terrain effects: you didn't know until you actually moved troops into it and rolled the dice whether a given village would be a mere speedbump or a stone-walled fortress, or whether a patch of woods would be easy open going or dense, slow and liable to make troops emerge in the wrong direction, how crossable a stretch of watercourse was ... I still think it's a good idea, don't know why it isn't used more often in rules.

Chris

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[Orcs]

For the Warring Empires rules I wrote years ago, rather than variable movement, I had variable terrain effects: you didn't know until you actually moved troops into it and rolled the dice whether a given village would be a mere speedbump or a stone-walled fortress, or whether a patch of woods would be easy open going or dense, slow and liable to make troops emerge in the wrong direction, how crossable a stretch of watercourse was ... I still think it's a good idea, don't know why it isn't used more often in rules.

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
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http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/

Yes we sometimes use that for watercourses when playing most rule sets.  I also used to like the Principles of war rules where you through or an adjustment to the quality of your troops when they were first fired at. Both seemed to work well 

[FierceKitty]

We do something similar with wooded areas.