Terrain benefits

[CountryBoy]

Ah thanks, so that's what it shows. Very different to what I was picturing. Makes sense I guess that the road is elevated, rather than below the banks. Thanks again.

Actually it looks like you might have had the embankment directions correct - although I don't use that graphics set - mainly because if an embankment is not positioned closely to a hexside- it makes it very tough to determine which side of the hexside is actually impacted by the terrain.

Right click and look at the info box (over probably to the left on top of any unit cards that you have showing there).  It only will show embankment if that hex is impacted by embankment hexsides.

I suspect it is a version of a sunken road -or maybe terraced (and I am saying that you have an elevation change running through the middle of the map.   Weirdly, it looks as if there is a down facing embankment, on an uphill slope.  I'm not actually sure what the impact of the first 4 hexes along the road would be - the oddity I was referring to - should probably offset each other.

If you expect the enemy from the SE - defend the elevation change -and don't worry too much about the embankment - or defend the line just to the north of the road - I am fairly certain that the embankment is a negative modifier from the road hexes.

*But* - there are some other options  -you could defend the elevation further forward along where is a stream.

-or- if you have artillery in the area- consider defending forward of the elevation change, and put your artillery on the higher ground.  Your infantry forms a buffer for your artillery, your artillery most likely is firing downhill when defending .... and if they try to melee you - you have some arty targets at 2 hex range.

Anyways the key thing is to find which hexside that the embankment impacts.

This is the 3D view:



So the road is in part above the hex to the south, but on the same elevation as the hexes to the north.

If I right-click the road hexes it shows 'Embank' to the north and south. When I right click the hexes to the north and south of the road they show nothing.

So the embankment only impacts the road hexes?