Colonization · Terrain
Ocean
2 food · fish
Coastal water. Two food a tile as fish, no commodity, and the reason a fisherman is worth putting on the docks of a colony short of farmland.
What it does
Yields 2 food, harvested as fish rather than grain, and no commodities. The Fishery resource raises the catch. Only colonies on the coast can work ocean squares.
Key details
- Food
- 2 (as fish)
- Movement cost
- 1
- Defense bonus
- +0%
- Commodities
- None
- Bonus resource
- Fishery
About terrain in Colonization
Every square grows food and, usually, exactly one raw commodity — tobacco, cotton, sugar, furs, lumber, ore or silver. A colonist assigned to a tile harvests one of them, an expert in that trade doubles the take, and rivers, plowing and roads add more on top. Forest tiles hide open ground beneath them: a Pioneer's plow clears the trees permanently and leaves the terrain listed on each entry.
Strategy — Read a colony site by what it can specialise in, not by its food alone. You want one strong food tile to grow on and a cluster of squares yielding the same commodity — three prairie tiles of cotton beat six tiles of three different crops, because only concentrated output is worth a master planter, a weaver and a warehouse.
