Forgive my ignorance if this is covered in the rules. (I'm waiting for my beta CD to arrive)
Are silver deposits random in each game. One problem with EU BG (and S&T's Conquistador)was that you knew where the wealth was located so there was a mad scramble to possess those areas.
IMHO a more realistic solution is to leave each area as blank until it is settled or traversed and then have a random chance that silver is located there. The discoverer then has the opportunity to get a real settlement/mine going before the other players realise how important that provinvce is and move their troops in that direction.
It will also create a much less predictable game... imagine if silver is discovered in Scandinavia! Maybe South America doesn't get colonised until the 18th Century because everyone's too busy taking sides in the English-Russo war over Sweden?
Maybe the CD is in my mailbox tonight
Are silver deposits random in each game. One problem with EU BG (and S&T's Conquistador)was that you knew where the wealth was located so there was a mad scramble to possess those areas.
IMHO a more realistic solution is to leave each area as blank until it is settled or traversed and then have a random chance that silver is located there. The discoverer then has the opportunity to get a real settlement/mine going before the other players realise how important that provinvce is and move their troops in that direction.
It will also create a much less predictable game... imagine if silver is discovered in Scandinavia! Maybe South America doesn't get colonised until the 18th Century because everyone's too busy taking sides in the English-Russo war over Sweden?
Maybe the CD is in my mailbox tonight
