Any tips on crossing open/clear terrain

[Sean]

You might want to go into the Parameter Data editor and look at Infantry Movement Costs and Movement Costs(separate heading bit further down) as well.

You can change these values if you want,make "Clear terrain" a smaller cost and also look at Movement Costs a bit further down in the data lists and make "From Ground Cost" smaller.

I did this in Dien Bien Phu for example because in some Infantry Battles it was almost impossible to have fun since the Assault was just a crawl,also noting Dispersed units pay double Movement cost i think which creates an extra slow burden.If you do these changes back up the original .pdt and later on you may want to play vanilla again without changes and swap it back.