Question about mountain combat

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I've read the FAQ (but I guess I dont' understand it fully) concerning terrain and combat. If I'm going to be in a mountain area, should I still work to maintain calvary superiority? I know attacking into a mountainous area (or across water) decreases the calvary and cannon shock value but does it also negate the calvary advantage factor? I'm about to invade Nippon's capital (a mountainous region) and their forces on the island compose of 80k calvary and 80 cannon. Since I can only land about 50k in troops right now, what's my best option?

 

[Sidney]

This unscientific and there are good FAQ's that will give you the exact breakdown but for me mountains really hurt the effectiveness of cavalry. In fact, in my games anytime I am matianbing a defensive position in the moutnains (Tyrol as Austria for example) I will have no cav and more cannon and seem to do quite nicely. I can tell a real difference between the cav advantage on flatlands but have not seen it make much difference in the moutnains. Of course, when fighting in wester europe you don't have the kind of massive cav advatage you are facing.

 

[Xanadu]

You shopuld take into account what your land tech is at the moment. I have always found that Nippons' land tech is severly lower than Europeans nations (exotic?). So even thouogh their army is 103k strong I had no problem with a unit (with leader) that had 20k/5k/100 kick their butt. Of course my land tech was in the 40's but I digrerss.

 

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should I still work to maintain calvary superiority?

Check the FAQ again, it's in there (as good as it can be, the BG rules are actually a bit inconsistent about cav in mountains).