Movement (EU2012)

Range of Movement (or Speed) is a hidden attribute in XCOM EU.

A soldier's range of movement value is 12, which translates into 7 tiles (cell/square) for a half-turn move, and 15 tiles when dashing - both when running a straight line.

According to this post, the conversion for a half-turn move is:

round_down(attribute value * 0.625)

So, with a value of 12, we get:

12 * 0.625 = 7.5 => round_down(7.5) = 7 tiles

With dashing, the value is doubled, so we get:

12 * 0.625 * 2 = 15 tiles

With the Second Wave option Not Created Equally, the movement attribute may vary between 11 (6 and 13 tiles) and 14 (strangely 9 and 18 tiles).

With the option Hidden Potential the movement attribute may increase when a Soldier is promoted. This doesn't seem to be the case, when Hidden Potential is not selected.

There are a couple of things that allow you to increase movement:

• The Sprinter ability of the support class: +3 tiles (+6 tiles when dashing)
• Armor
  • Skeleton Suit
  • Ghost Armor
  • Psi Armor
• Combat Stims
• Combat Rush (triggered by the Adrenal Neurosympathy gene mod)