Like in CK2, where you can see when you cross a river into another Province, its not really clear by now and so its luck depended. Would be rally helpfull for war strategy.
Suggestion: Make river crossings visible in Province interface
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Seconded. Paradox present this information in two games pre-dating EU4 (CK2, HoI3), so there's certainly no excuse for EU4 not having it.
Yeah this is so darn weird that its currently impossible to understand whether an army gets river crossing penalty or not. Makes no sense at all. Really needs to be included in a simple to understand matter.
I have always wished that when in geographical map mode and I have an army selected, hovering over a province would show me all the correct percentages of the terrain chosen and river crossing (it's %-based too).
I remember someone else mentioning this only a few weeks after the game was released, pity they haven't got around to implementing it yet.
I agreed and hope that this gets implemented to avoid nasty disasters in war for not remembering the river.
Not really, the devs are completely into making the new WoN expansion pack and creating out and trying new features so its kinda expected things like this take a burner to the latest and the greatest. Hopefully someone will take the time to make this soon though. Polish is just as important as new features.
But people have been pointing this out since 1.0. It's unbelievable that it wasn't in the game on release, and it's even more unbelievable that it hasn't been changed since.
The game is so generally helpful and transparent that it's just surprising that this wasn't in release or patched in at some point.
If it helps, check the arrow when your army moves to a province. If the arrow crosses a river, you'll get a river crossing penalty.
.Generally this seems to work for me as well, but I have noticed sometimes it can be misleading. Sometimes you will move troops into a province where a river might end/begin near the borders (just inside the borders maybe halfway to the middle of the province) and you will get a river crossing penalty, and other times with similar setups I don't receive the penalty! So sometimes I have trouble judging whether or not I'll get the penalty.
I agree that a more visual way of representing a river crossing in provinces (simple icon, etc.) would be beneficial. Perhaps even what Light85 mentioned would be a nice addition as well.
Thanks for the tip. How reliable is this method?
PDX should really make it clear in the UI though.
In my experience, very. And when in doubt, assume that you WILL get the penalty. Better safe than sorry.
The funny thing is I have seen AI took a longer path by moving its army to a neighboring province before attacking and there is no river crossing penalty in that instance.