I must be blind!! I can't find anything in the rulebook about the advantages of building a city. Can you help.
Building cities
Discussion on the very same topic:
Dam and I have also discussed this here on the FFG board.
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp?efid=112&efcid=1&efidt=89075
The 'cities' part comes toward the end of the discussion.
TK
As a direct answer, they count as a Fort and Tower during certain phases; good to build early on...
Titeman said:
As a direct answer, they count as a Fort and Tower during certain phases; good to build early on...
They're mainly useful to complete some objectives. A city will also yield 2 gold at the end of each age, in addition to an army unit (except at the end of the age in which it was upgraded).