Is it just me?

[Narwan]

Concerning clear terrain.

Troops in clear terrain are not exposed in open terrain. There is a big difference between clear terrain in the game and the expression 'troops in the clear'.

You should think of clear terrain of terrain with not enough trees to be woods, not enough buildings to be an urban hex, not enough rough spots to be rough terrain, etc.
How many trees have to be in a 50m by 50m hex for it to be a wooded hex? 5? 10? 50? 100? For aguments sake let's say 100. That means a hex with 99 trees is clear terrain. Add a few shacks and stables, a gully or two and a bunch of 4 ft high shrubbery. That's a clear hex too in the game and has a lot of cover and concealment. more than enough for a squad to make use of.
Clear terrain covers everything from completely open to an inch away from being woods, rough, etc. What the game does is take the middle ground. So if you see a clear hex, think of it as being midway between completely open and either a full woods, rough, building hex etc. Don't expect it to mean that troops in a clear hex are fully exposed.

And its a game, not a simulation. It much too limited to be even close to that.