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I noticed at Nationals that people put their cards in all kinds of different places on the table when they play...which for me caused quite a bit of confusion. Just out of curiosity, what territory layout do you use? Do you use the layout on the rule card included in starter decks or do you use a different one? Please explain your layout instead of using a term that I may not be privy to...thanks!

Nice...so basically the way the rule card shows it with a few variations...

I use what Sauce uses. probably because that's how I taught him to play.

yay another one of these threads

I use the CA Style except with a more "current"  version of it then what Bryon has on his Website.

Evil Characters are on the Left with Land of Bondage under them. Good is on the Right. Discard pile is placed under the deck which is placed in between the Good and Evil Sides. Arts, Forts, Set Aside, Rescued and anything else under the sun is placed tilted 90 degrees to the right of the Good Cards. This Varies from Player to player as some of us put arts and forts in front of our decks instead of on the far right.

This is all very interesting and lets me know that I had a very different but not that different view of the CA style. I have been working with a printer, trying to put together playmats for Redemption. That is the whole reason I am asking the most common set-up of your territory. What do you think about the idea of having one standardized way of setting up the game so that playmats could be produced? I have two layouts that I have been working with which I will post shortly once I put them on photobucket...

Redemption isn't playmat friendly due to a lack of limits on the numbers of cards on the field.

I agree. Maybe just an insert card in all the new sets would be easier and more people would get those than the mats anyways.

Nothing should ever go behind the deck IMO.

right. I think that the first one you posted should be standardized. I made a thread like this as well...

So there is a clear division between the top one I posted (original layout on rule cards) and the bottom one I posted (CA style or at least my version of it)...
What are the pros and cons of the two styles?

Pros for Original:
I like the straight lines and organization it creates.

Cons for Original:

Pros for CA style:
I like the fact that your evil lines up with your opponents good.
I like that you don't have to move cards over other cards to push into battle.

Cons for CA style:

I use something similar to RDT's and Travis' 1st layout.

Redeemed Souls (turned sideways)       Temple/Artifact Pile      Good Forts       Good characters
Discard Pile                 Draw Pile         Evil Forts                             Evil Characters
                                                     Extra Sites                           Lost Souls                              Set Aside

Right, my removed from game pile is face down, underneath my discard.

Right, my removed from game pile is face down, underneath my discard.

i don't like doing that because i always forget they are there at the end of the game and thay are face-up for the next game.

I use my own set up. It looks sort of like this...

                                                      Arts/Forts/etc.
Heroes                                            Deck   Discard Pile/Removal       Set aside
Evil Characters                                 Lost Souls