Gods and Kings - iron change?

[Randall_Flagg]

In my current game as Byzantium I had no possible sources of horses, which is something that was previously almost unheard-of. Had to go beg them off a city-state.
On the other hand, I have over 20 iron, it's just all over the place. But both previous games I had absolutely none over a large land area.

I really really like that you can't rely on having those resources

Ouch that hurts, I really like the horsie for Byz!! Great for early barb hunting.

 

[GrayingGamer]

Pretty sure iron and coal (and other important weapon resources) get a random (unseen) roll at start - "rare, common, abundant," etc.

 

[wpfossil]

Set resources to abundant or legendary start when setting up the game if you'd like to bypass the resource challenge.