Open Plains

"Expanding savannah with sparse vegetation, both allies and enemies stand ready in an arrow formation."

- Map description

Open Plains is a special random map introduced in Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms.

Overview
Open Plains is a team-based map that pits two enemy players in the center of an open map and their allies in a safe position behind them, forming somewhat of an arrow pointing towards the other team. The players in the center of the map are placed rather close together whereas the other players are far off close to the edges of the map, making springboard strategies a promising strategy. Wood is rather sparse on the map and bound to run out on longer games. The map features no water.

Environment
The landscape is a savannah that is sparsely forested and overall not overly rich with resources. The only animals found on the map (apart from the players' starting positions) are Lions.

Starting resources
The following resources are found close to every player's starting Town Center and can freely be gathered at the game start. As trees as a source of wood are easily accessible on every map and hard to pinpoint to a number, they are not listed here.


 * 8 Aoe2 goat icon.png Goats
 * 6 Ostrichicon.png Ostrichs
 * 4 Fruitbushicon.png Fruit Bushes
 * 2 Wild-boar-icon.jpg Wild Boars
 * 8 Goldmineicon.png Gold Mines
 * 6 Stonemineicon.png Stone Mines

Relics
The map features 5-9 Relics distributed evenly over the map.