For now, we are playing the starter armies in Sword and Scimitars. For now it's the Later Crusades and the Sejluk Turks. The Turks have the Steppes as a 4th choice. We usually pick agricultural or developed sometimes hilly.
QWe did the steppes choice last night he picked Steppes. Brush, a couple of broken grounds, 3 open choices, a great hill and 1 more brush....I placed the 2nd brush on my side (a LUCKY roll). THEN he rolled a 6
In far too many games, the norm is half or more of my choices wind up in my opponent's half when they roll to move them.
I like brush....my opponent couldn't scream on through it. Since it was on my left flank, near the middle of the table, he tried sending his skimisher bows through it. They kept rolling and "evading" (looked like fleeing to me) when my cav charged them
I like being forced by dice rolls to "think about what to do in spite of the terrain and or it's placement". IMHO terrain usually did in at least a small way "favor" one of the fighting armies.
It's a game, it's fun, it makes us think
