Joe Harker
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1 tile W of English starting position, with sheep!
I'm in the only swamp tile on the East Coast: Atlanta.
(Rhye, Georgia isn't a swamp, it just has a lot of rednecks!) =D
I'm in north eastern spain, west of the mountain, on the hill north east of the horses
Well, I believe I am about two squares south-east from Tyemen, it's marshes on the map. It's called Novosibirsk, by the way.
And I think it's good place to put my cares about Russian map and Russian civ in general.
1) Initial horsemen are of no real use and, I think, historically wrong. Yearly Russians used some sort of Galleys to invade Constantinopolys. Horses weren't important part of Russian military until much later.
2) A city called Belgorod-Dneprovsky is in fact Tyraspol. I am quite sure of this because it's Greek predecessor is evidently Tyras.
3) Historically, Russia had two main source of coal: Donbass (East Ucraine) and Kuzbass (south part of Western Siberia). Alas, RFS has none of them, but some strange source in between.
4) What gems in Northern Urals are for? Some of local threads says you can built Vorcuta near this, but it seems not right anymore. All tiles there are ice, tundra or marshes, nearest buildable tyle is four of five tyles off.
5) Close to previous... you should have a possibility to build a least a pair of Russian cities at shores of North-Arctical ocean. The are there, after all, and they are among reachest Russians cities for today.
6) What is Tara? I know it's in Civ for years, but I never heard of this IRL. You needn't this. You need a buildable place one or two tyles south of there, called Krasnoyarsk.
7) IRL, there are no horizontal rivers in Siberia. Real rivers are all vertical, flawing from Altay mountains to North-Arctical ocean.
8) For Mongols, Kazan' isn't in Eastern Siberia. It's European Russian, on Volga river (and it has oil, by the way).
Rhye, I'd be thankful if you could fix all this...