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Prairie

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Prairie

Broad grassland leaves few obstacles to movement and favors scouting and direct attacks.

Prairie Age of Empires II map artwork
Prairie Age of Empires II map artwork

Overview

Broad grassland leaves few obstacles to movement and favors scouting and direct attacks.

Map type and generation

Prairie is listed as Land, with the features Open terrain. Its recorded map scope is Custom. These labels describe the kind of terrain and match setup to expect; they do not guarantee that every generated map places resources in the same location.

Planning a match

Scout the space between the starting bases, locate exposed food and wood, and identify a safe route for early pressure before investing in distant expansion. Compare your opening plan with the actual spawn and scout report before choosing a build order.

How to use this reference

Broad grassland leaves few obstacles to movement and favors scouting and direct attacks. Map type: Land. Tagged terrain and features: Open terrain. Open sight lines make scouting, early walls, and control of exposed resource sites important. Pool scope: Custom.

Focus
Map layout · Land · Custom · Custom open land
Signature / category
Map overview
Release / context
Map pool
Region
Random maps
Classification
Maps
Map features
Open terrain
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