On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, David Sean Brown wrote:

> Not to get off topic, but where does it say this..I had thought our
> discussion was based on the fact the rule was never "written in stone" or
> the rulebook :)

It isn't explicitly said that there has to be guild in both end of trade
route, but if you read what is said on page 60 about trade routes, it
quite clear that there has to be guild in both ends.

Trade routes are neutralized if regent's guild holding in either province
is contested, ... or if the ruler of host province chooses to suppress it
by degree.

All this would be formulated otherwise _IF_ there had to be only guild in
either end of trade route.

Actually reading second and third time that passage, it isn't clear at
all.

Anyway GM is final judge and my degree is that there has to be guild on
both ends. There are few reasons for that. Trade routes give lots of
income so they should be hard to create. Holding in both ends makes routes
more vulnerable so players have to look after them and create there trede
empire more carefully.

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