Map
has minor errors. For example Highland Park is actually
surrounded by Dallas and is near the northern part of the DISD.
Texas has indepentent school districts. This means that city
goverments do not control them and city boundaries do not match ISDs
with similar names. They are elected and have indepentent taxing
authority. In the 1990's a judge ordered Robin Hood, a plan to
send tax money from rich school districts to poorer ones (rather
than the more logical approach of not sending state money to rich
district and sending more state money to poorer ones). The inner
city schools with the most need are particularly hurt by this as they
are technically rich districts due to thier ability to tax downtown
business real estate. In this mission, anger over robin hood has
lead to war. Pick a Dallas area District and unite these noth
Texas ISDs.
DFW Schools comes from my interest in the lack of coordination between
cities and school districts in Texas. The game play is different
then some of my other games because I placed 5 of the 6 player very
close to each other. This is inspired by the large size of the Dallas
ISD near the center of the map. This allows suburban school
districts near Dallas to engage rapidly. If you play one of those
5 (North, South, East, West, and Ellis County) take Dallas immediately
for a defensive advantage (Free castle with 4 catapults requires little
to defend in early rounds). Oddly enough Hunt County is one of
the easiest to play as it is far from early competition.
Tom
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