Tutorial Nine
Economics

The Fantastic War has an economic system that at first may seem like a drudgery. However many loopholes were left in the economic system that make it extremely interesting and challenging. 

There are five economic units (commodities) in The Fantastic War: Food, Timber, Iron, Gold and Manna. We'll mostly concern ourselves with the first four. See Spells under Major Units for a description of Manna.  Commodities have two primary purposes in The Fantastic War: Building Units and Emissarying Neutral Units.  Every city has a production and a storage for all four commodities (even if it's zero).  What a city produces depends on the surrounding terrain.  Every square with in two squares of the city effects production in the following way:

    1 Plains Square = 5 Food Units
    1 Forest Square = 3 Timber Units
    1 Mountain Square = 2 Iron Units
    1 Desert Square = 1 Gold Unit
    1 Water Square = 2 Food Units
    1 Swamp Square = 1 Manna Unit