I was flipping through the rule book earlier today, and noticed a small little snippet I've always glanced over I suppose.

On page 35, last paragraph under Trade Routes it says:

"Like fortifications, trade routes are rated by level to reflect their importance."

Now if you are also on the Br mail list, you might recall that someone (I don;t remeber who) had the notion of altering the trade route action so that they would function like a holding. They would require a Create action, resulting in a level 0 TR, then you would use the Rule action to have them go up in level.

It seems to me now, that this might have been the original intention all along, but somehow, the action got axed to it's tradition self.

What say you all about this?