Quote Originally Posted by TCWNME View Post
It is good to spread them out in order to prevent straining food resources available from NPCs. Overall you can support a bigger army with more ease. And it is also harder for enemies to find all of your cities, than it would be if they were right next to each other.
Depends on if you play AgeI or AgeII, one AgeI it would be better if your cities was speard out, but on AgeII in my opinion, I rather keep my cities close or group split them off, and build 2 bases in different places.