pineappledan
Deity
Iron deposits have always been a matter of luck whether they are at Bronze or Iron. Iron deposits are relatively common tiles, but if there aren't any within a reasonable distance from your start then it doesn't much matter when it was revealed.
That strategy has always been high risk. Moving Iron back to Iron Working makes it even riskier, maybe risky enough it's not worth trying to rush unless you have a lot of expansion space around you and are reasonably confident that you have enough blank space that iron must be somewhere in it.
Offsetting that risk by increasing the strength of the sword though? That doesn't address the issue. If things go your way and you have easily available iron, you would have even stronger swords as compensation for something that never happened. And if things don't go your way and there is no iron then you can't build those even stronger swords, so it doesn't matter.
That strategy has always been high risk. Moving Iron back to Iron Working makes it even riskier, maybe risky enough it's not worth trying to rush unless you have a lot of expansion space around you and are reasonably confident that you have enough blank space that iron must be somewhere in it.
Offsetting that risk by increasing the strength of the sword though? That doesn't address the issue. If things go your way and you have easily available iron, you would have even stronger swords as compensation for something that never happened. And if things don't go your way and there is no iron then you can't build those even stronger swords, so it doesn't matter.
I suspect that is because Deer and Stone are the only tundra resources, while plains/grassland also have the 3 farm and 3 pasture resources.You left it out because there's no change, but I think it's not insignificant that Tundra forest is 0.166 (from the initial forest spawn), then 0.125 (for the non-hills that weren't already checked, and get converted up to forests (which is itself a double-helping of assistance for naked tundra)), for an average resource frequency somewhere between the two. Just to give people some context for these numbers.
Last edited: