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RE: Slopes and Movement
The series artwork has certainly waffled over the years on whether or not elevation lines represent hills (seemingly on more current stuff) or just gradual undulations of the land (the older stuff).
I pulled out he BotB module rules, as I think this was the first module to use elevation lines (Afrika Korps having similar hills, but not elevation lines IIRC). The rules there state,
"The boards include hills, defined by elevation lines. The elevation lines represent intervals of 20 meters and not sharp changes... Hill movement costs are only paid when using non-road movement to enter a hex containing more than one level of terrain...".
While BotB is obviously not a modern module, it represented the introduction of this terrain type to the system (prior modules having distinct "hill" hexes), and at that time conclusively said road movement did not pay the hlll/elevation cost. FWIW.
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