How do you view a provinces's terrain from the main screen.

[Aaelar]

In my game I am focusing more on Quality over Quanity. However all of my enemies that I'm facing, Algiers, the Ottomans, Oman (they somehow conquered all of Arabia) all have very large armies, however very low tech level. So, obviously, the right thing to do would be to land troops on the provinces that they own with a low (I don't know the word) army-force limit, that way we both send out the same number of units, but I win because I have guns and they have spears.

However it's always a problem that I don't know what the terrain is until I'm already in battle. I try to look on the terrain map mode and I saw, for example, highly mountianous terrain over in Greece when I was fighting the Ottomans, but when they attacked my units there it turned out that it was for some reason a Plains terrain.

I kept trying to find out where it would show terrain before the battles, but I couldn't find anything. I guess it would make since that it wouldn't tell you until you are in the province (maybe) but it doesn't show ANYWHERE the terrain until the battle screen pops up, as far as I know.

Does anyone know where this is located? Thanks.

[10toGo]

change to terrain mapmode and hover the mouse over the province you want to check

[Aaelar]

Originally posted by GaWzA:

change to terrain view and hover the mouse over the province you want to check

But how does that work? It gives percentages of what the province is, but all I care about is how it will affect the battle.

For example, Epirus is about 32% Woods, 28% Plains, 19% Grassland, 14% Coastline, and then smaller percentages of everything else.
So I may think that the battle would be in Woods, since it is the majority, however it actually occurs in Plains.

Also, even if it did tell you what it was from the terrain map mode, how would you know how many troops could fit on the battlefield at once without memorizaiton? Like all I know is that Mountains holds 16K and Plains are near unlimited.

[Xara]

http://eu4wiki.com/Terrain#Terrain

Terrain is randomly selected when combat starts. The percentage chance of each terrain type is the same as the percentage of each terrain type present in the province

[10toGo]

it was 32% chance to fight in woods and 28% chance to fight in plain. You cant know beforehand where it would be. On mountains you have -66% modifier to your combat width you can still bring as many as you want but they'll fight as reserves. Even at plains you'll have reserves if the number of soldiers exceeds your combat width.

[Aaelar]

Thanks, that answers my question guys.