Terrain Guide

Terrain Basics

Terrain matters for three main reasons:

how fast your units can move
what your units can see
which routes are safe, slow, or impossible

In most matches, good terrain play is less about memorizing numbers and more about asking simple questions:

Can my unit cross this?
Will this slow me down?
Does this block vision?
Is this a good place to scout, hide, or hold?

Terrain At a Glance

Terrain	Infantry	Tanks	Blocks Vision	Main Use
Grass	Easy to cross	Easy to cross	No	Open movement and direct fights
Forest	Slower	Slower	Yes	Ambushes, cover, broken sightlines
Mountain	Can cross	Cannot cross	Yes	Scouting, chokepoints, high ground
Shallow Water	Can cross slowly	Cannot cross	No	Infantry-only crossings and flanks
Deep Water	Cannot cross	Cannot cross	No	Natural barriers and map edges

Grass

Grass is the standard open ground on most maps. It does not block vision and is easy for both infantry and tanks to cross.

Use grass when you want clean movement, fast repositioning, and direct engagements. The downside is that open ground is easy to see across, so units there are usually easier to spot and pressure.

Forest

Forest slows movement and blocks vision. It is one of the most important terrain types in the game because it changes both movement and information.

Forests are useful when you want to:

hide movement from enemy sight
create ambush opportunities
slow an advancing force
protect a flank with broken lines of sight

Infantry usually benefits from forests more than tanks do, especially on maps where vision control matters.

Mountain

Mountains are slow to cross and cannot be entered by tanks. They also block vision, and units on mountains gain extra sight range.

That makes mountains valuable for:

scouting
watching roads or narrow approaches
controlling important high ground
forcing enemies to take longer routes

Shallow Water

Shallow water can be crossed by infantry, but not by tanks. It does not block vision, and it usually creates unusual movement routes that only some armies can use.

Shallow water is most useful for:

infantry-only flanking routes
breaking up tank movement
shaping the map into safer and riskier lanes

If you ignore shallow water, you can miss routes your opponent can use against you.

Deep Water

Deep water cannot be crossed by current land units. It does not block vision, but it strongly shapes the map by removing movement options.

Deep water often serves as:

a hard map boundary
a protected flank
a way to force battles into fewer approach routes

When deep water is nearby, pay attention to the land bridges and narrow access points around it.

Roads

Roads let units move faster. You should think of them as travel lanes that can run through different parts of the map, not as a separate kind of ground.

Roads are great for:

fast reinforcements
quick attacks
vehicle movement across long distances
shifting pressure from one side of the map to another

The tradeoff is that roads are predictable. If a road cuts through forests, mountains, or a narrow pass, enemies can often guess where units will move next.

In Practice

When you read a map, terrain usually matters in three ways:

forests and mountains shape what players can see
roads shape how fast armies can move
mountains and shallow water create routes that some units cannot use

If you keep those three ideas in mind, the map becomes much easier to read.

Buildings are covered separately from terrain.
Roads matter most when you are planning movement and timing, especially with tanks.
Terrain becomes even more important when Fog of War is enabled.

Next Steps

Understand Unit Types and how they interact with terrain.
Learn how Fog of War changes scouting and vision.
Review Game Setup before your next match.
Try the Map Editor to experiment with terrain layouts.

Read the ground well, and the battle starts going your way.