Snow vehicle movement
I started playing a Finland-Soviet-battle, and I picked the finnish jaegers with their bandwagon transports. The battle was in winter, so I expected that movement would be hampered. However, what I found was that the snow vehicles movement was reduced to only two hexes per turn in wooded areas (most of the map that is), which is the same as the speed of my ski infantry.
I then thought that maybe the soviets are slowed down equally, but I found that even their wheeled BTRs move at least 5-6 hexes in winter woods. Now, having trained for a year in the Jaeger Brigade in Lapland, I know from personal experience that the snow vehicles we used (Bv-206s) are very maneuverable in snow and woods, and certainly more so than any wheeled vehicle. I also made a map with most of the terrain covered with snow drifts to represent deep snow (typically around 50-80 cm) and what I found was that my snow vehicles got stuck more often than the russian BMPs and tanks, which is rather absurd considering the bandwagons are made for moving in deep snow. Personally I've never heard of a bandwagon getting stuck in just snow.
How does the game treat snow vehicles? To me it seems they have the off-road mobility of a truck, which doesn't really seem appropriate. Sure, the snow vehicles don't have a high top speed on roads, but they aren't hampered by difficult terrain nearly as much as wheeled vehicles.
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