Rules question re:elevations

[Xerxes77]

Yeah that does seem confusing, I had never noticed the discrepancy previously. My reading of that would be that your latter calculation makes sense... though that's just my opinion not a categorical answer.

Thank you, Embis. I was surprised to see my searches come up empty about this, and the few tactical articles I find don't say much about elevation. I'm guessing most players just went with the user manual version. The Main Program pdf does include some essential gameplay info, but it tends to get lost among UI references.

I ended up creating a number of test scenarios and based on the results it would appear that the user manual is correct-- what the program takes in consideration is the amount of elevation changes (i.e., "contour levels") included in a map, and the actual meters involved are irrelevant.