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[A Canadian Cat]

I want to check out woods again so I deployed 4 Russian rifle squads on 'Hide' with short covered arcs along the red line about 18 metres inside the woods,

I hate to say it but that does not look like you have created woods at all. :sad: Trees alone do not create woods. Trees on grass (or default squares as this looks like) are like tress on a lawn. It would be like fighting on your local park where the grass gets mowed under all the trees regularly. Not much concealment there.

So your men are *not* in woods. For woods you need to add the light or heavy woods tile under the trees you have. Also further in should have more heavy woods and it would be good for the tree line to have some smaller trees and then some bushes before giving way to grass.

If wild woods are what you are looking to test with.

they can clearly see the Germans at around 200m even though they're on Hide, so we can conclude that Hiding doesn't interfere with spotting ability..

I strongly urge all readers to not reach that conclusion. It is true that when hiding they do not totally stop spotting but very few soldiers will be poking their heads up. I can tell you from experience that small teams on hide spot ridiculously poorly. Hence my mantra hide = death