Balancing Terrain Selection

[sagji]

This removes the ability to use a road to ensure a 5MU (6MU in 25mm) wide clear area at one edge of the table - by placing it just under 4MU from the edge, ensuring that edge touching pieces can't be placed, and potentially making the player placing last choose their terrain pieces as being minimum width and reducing their effectiveness.

Don't you have to choose all terrain pieces before rolling for placement ? So you can't choose a minimum width piece to fit in the gap.

Correct. However at the point when the second player chooses terrain they know the other side has chosen a road, and can thus choose narrower pieces than they would otherwise have done.