Units hiding in terrain

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Units hiding in terrain

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From the manual:
Foot can hide in buildings, woods and some other terrain. They can only be seen by nearby enemy or if they shoot.
1) Is this any time a foot unit enters a building, wood or similar? They are immediately invisible, or it takes time to hide?

2) How near does the enemy have to be to see the unit in terrain? Let's say Example #1, a unit is hiding in the edge of a wood and the enemy is in an area of open terrain? In Example #2, both units are in a big wood.

3) Can non-foot units ever be hidden? Say, a cavalry unit is in a large wood. In Example #1, the observing enemy unit is on a flat surface and the cavalry is in the middle of the wood. Example #2 is the same, except the observing enemy unit is on an elevated hill giving a good view of the whole wood. Is the cavalry unit visible in both examples, or perhaps line of sight obscures the cavalry?
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the_iron_duke wrote:From the manual:
Foot can hide in buildings, woods and some other terrain. They can only be seen by nearby enemy or if they shoot.
1) Is this any time a foot unit enters a building, wood or similar? They are immediately invisible, or it takes time to hide?
IIRC it takes until next enemy turn.
2) How near does the enemy have to be to see the unit in terrain? Let's say Example #1, a unit is hiding in the edge of a wood and the enemy is in an area of open terrain? In Example #2, both units are in a big wood.
Example #1: 2 squares.

Note, however, that mounted troops cannot be hidden in the edge of a wood.

Example #2: No unit can be seen through another wooded square, whether the obvserving unit is in or out of the wood.
3) Can non-foot units ever be hidden? Say, a cavalry unit is in a large wood. In Example #1, the observing enemy unit is on a flat surface and the cavalry is in the middle of the wood. Example #2 is the same, except the observing enemy unit is on an elevated hill giving a good view of the whole wood. Is the cavalry unit visible in both examples, or perhaps line of sight obscures the cavalry?
No unit can see through a woods square, so cavalry in the middle of a wood are hidden. Height does not affect this - the canopy is assumed to be dense enough to hide the unit, even from a hill.
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Re: Units hiding in terrain

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Thanks.
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