Stairways and Permanent Ladders

Most fortifications have different levels of elevation, connected by prepared routes such as stairways and ladders. For the purpose of the movement rules in this section, these features do not include portable ladders (scaling ladders) or grapples that might be carried by assaulting troops; see the following section for rules concerning those items.

A figure can climb or descend a stairway at a cost of 1" per 1" (10 feet in scale) of elevation change. Moving up or down a permanent ladder costs 2" per 1" of ascent or descent. As with moving through doorways and other openings (see above), more than one figure can move simultaneously at no increase in movement cost if more than one route (or, for instance, an extrawide stairway) is available.