As @2xMachina said, it's a roll and not guranteed. Regardless we do need to expand black soil production as well as expand forests in Red Hill.
The survey isn't really necessary, as trees won't cover up any metal deposits. We've found ours with no issues, despite there being dense forest in our territory.
The tricksy part of that will be keeping the rope from fraying. But it's not too hard for reasonable slopes.
As far as I can tell it's mostly faction control areas. Dotted lines are faction influence areas/tributaries.
Actually no, if you want immediately relevant defense, you want walls, field walls, towers then forests. Forests are a long term thing. Won't be dense enough to matter in the next three generations or so, considering how fast trees grow.
About the same density as the lowland minors. The lowlands are far more fertile along the rivers only.
Explicitly false
We don't have ground penetrating sonar or magnetometers here.
Friction would destroy such a system rapidly, unfortunately, and we'd have difficulty creating and transporting a rope of such immense length.
I don't think this weighed in on whether Build Forest will conceal metal ore. A managed forest may well have less brush and undergrowth than whatever grows wild.
Very high population density however.
I get that, but still, no wonder the Thunder Speakers thought they could push us around
Well, more specifically that was Sacred Forest and Stonepen.
It is not the size of your territory that matters, but how you use it!
They won't be obscuring less than the dry hills and sparse grass of Redhill however...though again, we're literally standing on iron ore there. We just don't recognize it yet.
And Hylas' point which was being addressed originally was 'we don't need to survey before we forest, because trees won't cover anything'
I mean, that is very much NOT the Rohirrim's view of lothlorien, but i get the sentiment.
