I noticed time and time again something very strange happening when combat takes place in mountenous terrain compaired to say hills or planes.
Taking the simplest of scenarios a stack of 8 inf attacking a lone inf defending. Assuming 100% condition for both sides, same tech level, no forts, no building what so ever and even if it is a core province for the defender the result is always the same.
When fighting in mountains the attacker always loses 1 inf and on any other type of terrain they take no losses. Technically for infantry there is no penalty of strength or hp in mountenous terrain so I cant figure out why this happens.
I have tried over a dozen times with the same result and I understand there is the x factor in combat resolution but the results I get are to uniform for this to be a coincidence. Anyone notice this before?
It is possible there is another factor involved in mountains that isn't apparent. The combat code is quite complex.
In my current game I just did this with 7 infantry and one armored car of mine against a single infantry in core mountains and did not lose any units of my own.
since it does it 12 out of 12 times I would almost call that expected behavior 
There are many things about this game that are not apparent from "book learning" but you learn by experience. This may be one of them.
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