movement point issues--the remaining movement point

[allan]

Have you all ever noticed that, when you have, say, a two-movement unit (like an engineer or cavalry), who uses one (or one and one third, two-thirds, or something) movement point before reaching something like a hill or forest without a road--you have this situation, and sometimes it makes it up the hill or into the woods, and sometimes it doesn't.

Is this just a random chance, or is there some way to predict it? I find this particularly problematic when I want to, say, get an engineer or low-defense cavalry onto a hill or into other "rough" terrain for good defense in a wartime situation, only to find that not only couldn't I move it in there, I also could no longer move anywhere else I'd normally have the points left to do so (i.e. back away from enemy troops)--because my unit's turn apparently ended in the attempt to scale the hill. This has sometimes cost me.... It especially is bad when vet spies get caught like that.

Any insight on this, anyone?

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

As I remember it, a unit has a chance to enter difficult terrain. It is based on their remaining movement and the amount of movement points required for the terrain.

So, if a horseman moves one square and then tries to move into a hill, it has a 1:2 (50%) chance of making it. If the horseman only moved 1/3 of a point (one square on a road), it has a 5:6 (83.3%) chance of making it.

A warrior that moves on one road sqaure then tries to enter a hill would be 2/3:2 (33.3%) chance of making it to the hill.

It is the amount of remaining movement divided by the movement points required for the terrain. A mountain technically needs 3 movement to enter, so be sure to adjust for that if necessary.

Any unit that has full movement remaining automatically makes it to the new terrain.

If a unit does not make it to the new terrain sucessfully, it is considered to have used the remainder of its movement points to recover from the attempt.

 

[allan]

Thanks for clearing that up. So it's a gamble--at least I have an idea what the odds are....