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happysadfun wrote:Pakistan+Afghanistan=Muslim India
Brazil+Uruguay=Portuguese South America or just Brazil
The East-West stuff in North America is annoying. New England. Colonial Canada. Frontier Canada. American Bayou. There's great names you are ignoring. And the midwest doesn't go that far west. And the straight lines are killing me. Can't you find a river somewhere?
Yeah I agree. I'm thinking like different shades of each color for the subcontinent. So US+Canada could be dark purple and Central America+Carribean would be light purple, but that is all of the purple on the map. Then do that for each continent and sub continent. So NA is shades of purple, SA is brows, Africa reds, Europe greens, Asia blues and Australia yellows. The only problem you might run into is if a sub continent has countries from different main continents (Middle East would contain some Asia, Europe and Africa). I think that problem can be solved be simply keeping the subcontinents as pieces of the main continents. It may not be as fun for gameplay, but I don't know how else you would show whcih countries group together to form the various regions.
Maybe the colors of the countries could be more uniform in the parts that are sub continents.. For example, if you were to separate US and canada, and mexico and guatemala(and the rest).. The US and canada could be one of the shades(maybe the darker blue) and then Mexico and guatemala(and the rest) could be another shade being used in north america, like the pinkish color.. That way they continents are more uniform, but you can differentiate between the subcontinents..
Maybe the colors of the countries could be more uniform in the parts that are sub continents.. For example, if you were to separate US and canada, and mexico and guatemala(and the rest).. The US and canada could be one of the shades(maybe the darker blue) and then Mexico and guatemala(and the rest) could be another shade being used in north america, like the pinkish color.. That way they continents are more uniform, but you can differentiate between the subcontinents..
Great to hear your considering the sub-bonus regions. My enthusiam for the map has increased a hundred fold.
With Europe, I'd recommend a three way split, with Scandinavia, Western (Italy, Germany and everything west) & Eastern (everything else).
Asia - from a strategic point of view it makes little difference whether Egypt is included in the Middle East, but it is a big political player in the region so it makes sense from that perspective. Other Asian regions could include The Orient (or South Eastern Asia) & the Indian Sub-Continent. With the Asian Russia split, it would be good to split it so that at least one territory is not a border.
North America - perhaps Central America including Cuba & the Carribean? It might be an idea to have Canada & the US combined into a single region. The US would be unholdable without first having Canada anyway, and Canada as a two country region would be too easy to take..
South America - I think Brazil needs to be split up and form another region. It currently dominates the continent, attacking nearly every other country and Africa as well. It can also hit NA in two moves. It's probably the most powerful country on the map as it stands, and certainly will be once Russia is further divided. If you decided to go down this route, I'm sure Marv could help with naming the territories.
Oceania - Perhaps include New Zealand and New Caledonia in with the Aus region? The other islands could form another region, though no idea what you'd call it.
Africa - I haven't got any ideas here. The Wikipedia page you posted looks like a good start though.
I think what you want to do is not get the map to look like the classic one. Splitting Australia in half and now your suggesting ur going to split asian russia is doing exactly that, making this map look more classic. Have you thought about my other suggestion, adding maldives as a link between Sri Lanka, Australia and Africa?
happysadfun wrote:Austria, Germany, Poland Not Western
And the midwest for farmingGabonX wrote:I don't know if somebody said this, but I think it would be cool if the countries had bonuses where their is heavy industry in the real world. Let me explain...On the Canada map you get + 1 for holding downtown. I think it would be cool if you got + a certain amount of armies for holding countries like China for industry, the Northeast United States for industry, some middle Eastern countries for oil etc. It could be the theme of this map, and it looks like this one could be big enough to pull it off.
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