Poll regarding hills being limiting Terrain

[vince hughes]

Our Skype and ftf group have a very minor version of 'House rules' for hills being limting terrain.

We play Hills ARE limiting when:

1. The observer is looking to a higher level.

2. The observer is on the same level of hill BUT on a different hill.

These rules came about when I think most of us found the desert maps a little incomprehensible where there can be a hill line stretching the whole length of the map (brown shaded areas) and it meant that opposing units on that same hill line could not see each other more than 600 yards away ........ In the desert !

We were not happy with that and thus our rule No.2 above was born. It effectively means that units on the same level AND same hill are not in limiting terrain from each other.

I've only played a couple from Beyond Normandy, but with that map, where there are no hills as such, but proper mapped out elevation lines. We use rule No.1 above and that is it.