So much for any serious discussion on your very good topic. Your asking people to use their brains and engage in some critical thinking. This is a talent that requires too much effort for most here. Not to mention it would also require people get beyond their own self-imposed ideological boundaries ...

England can be risky to try to start with, too many times I've seen people held up by the 6 neutrals in London. France I would certainly avoid as a start. Lately I have seen people make successful starts with Russia.

3rd 181/63 first place has 1218/1238

Seems like you are making some good progress, and his name was spelled N-A-P-O-L-E-O-N not L-E-A-N.

I like the new look. I think it will better than the original version. Players will be able to spend more time working on their next move, and less time on trying to work out the map.

I don't think they are. I believe that they won't count until the link gets posted on the Home page.

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This certainly isn't a feature that I would ever chose to use were it available.

3rd at 136/50 first has over 800

Rather than making a straight line with the trees, a grouping/cluster of trees would look better.

This would have to a large map. Besides the European continent, you have to include all of the Middle East, because of the Arabian campaigns against the Ottoman Empire. In North America, Mexico would have to be included. The Atlantic would certainly have to have battle sites that could be captured ...

When you receive a card for a territory you own, the name will be in brackets, you will get the 2 bonus armies for those. Also when you are getting ready to cash the territories on the cards you have will be highlighted on the map.

This happens in all types of spoils turns. One more than one occasion I will turn in a set, and get a card for the same territory at the end of that round. I don't really see it as much of an issue.

3rd 86/22

I am looking forward to playing the Beta of this map.

Turkey is good to go for if you can survive the initial scramble for that. England is OK, if you already have a number of other territories to support the assault on London. I have seen people win with any number of starting positions on the map. With flat rate spoils it can come down to who has a ...

This is an excellent map, not only to play, but artistically as well. There a few others out there that have some outstanding graphics and are great to play.

"The Blue Max" and "El Cid" are neck and neck in my book with "Apocolypse Now" in third.

Being fairly new to the site I have looked into the foundry merely out of curiosity at first. I saw a couple of maps I thought I might like to play, primarily the Austro-Hungarian map. So I followed their development. There are now a couple of other maps under development that I have commented on ...

@ Woodruff - I was attempting to be somewhat facetious with my question.

So the Democratic Party is made up of only informed people?

How did you possibly come to that conclusion, based on my statements above?

It was an inference i had made based upon your statement that the Republicans position themselves for the uninformed. Hence leading to the conclusion that the ...

Yes, I have seen it and have been following its development. I wouldn't mind giving it try once it reaches Beta. However it is a different type of map, so I thought I would just offer my observations on this one.

So the Democratic Party is made up of only informed people? What is the criteria for being an informed person?

The purse strings are controlled by Congress, if or when, there is a default the blame will lie squarely on those who work in the Capitol Building. Both the Republicans and the Democrats are being equally asinine. Anyone who thinks that their party of choice is in the right, is severely deluded ...

I have played this map a couple of times now, and it seems to me that the Asia Minor portion of the map has a large number of the bonuses. The ones located there are practically equal to number available on the rest of the map. In the games I have played on it, the early fighting is all over that ...