Greenland Map by
the.killing.44 Guide by
rdsrds2120 Click image to enlarge. Introduction Velkommen til Grønland! As the intro says in the native tongue, welcome to Greenland! A low complexity map, Greenland is great for quick games with both experienced and inexperienced players alike. This map features 3 regions that are starting neutrals (the passes across the ice cap). The neutral regions start with 2 neutral troops and are used to connect the eastern and western parts of the map. Be warned though, once conquered, the 3 passes (starting neutrals) impose a 1 troop decay at the beginning of your turn, causing 1 troop to be deducted from that region (but always leaving at least 1 troop).
Divided among the 32 simple regions are 6 continent bonuses:
show: Bonuses
Name............Addition..........Border Regions to Hold Peary Land .............2....................................2 * Easy to hold Tunu ....................4....................................4Ittoqqortoormiit ......5....................................5Kujalleq ................4.....................................3Qeqqata ................3.....................................2 * Easy to hold Qaasuitsup .............4.....................................3
show: Classification
Size: SmallFeatures Decay and Starting Neutral Regions: The ice passes start as a neutral region with 2 troops.2.............11 3.............11 4..............8 5..............6 6..............5 7..............4 8..............4
How to play Greenland show: Two Player
This is a wonderful 1v1 map. With each player starting with only 11 initial regions, you do not have to take another player's region to lower their region bonus, but can instead choose to sit and build, or choose to try to conquer and hold another region to increase your own region bonus. This helps to negate the advantage of the player that goes first to decrease the second player's deployment. If you don't know whether you should build or not, that's ok. Choosing to either build up and wait or conquer another region for the hopes of holding 12 regions for a region bonus of 4 troops depends on your style of play. Build, and try not to count on luck, but do whatever suits your long term strategy best. ice paths. The ice paths allow you to build up behind a neutral front and launch an unsuspected assault onto an opponent you may know is on the other side of the map.
show: Assassin
Greenland assassin is typical assassin! Be sure to have maneuverability around the map so that you can strike when the time is right. As mentioned previously, the ice passes are important to this map, and this holds true for assassin. Keep some passes, or the border regions to the passes, available to allow you quick access to all parts of the map.
show: Escalating
Positioning Playing Dead Ends: Nanortalik (South), Nares Land (North)Bottlenecks: Paamiut (above Nanortalik) Gunnbjord Fjeld Maniltsoq Upernavik Nuusuaq All ice paths Large Games (7+ Players) Fog Terminator
show: Flat Rate And No Spoils
No spoils is better on this map compared to both escalating and flat rate. Flat rate spoils, on a first cash, can nearly decide who wins the game. An extra 10 potential troops by Round 4 would be a horribly lucky advantage. The size of the map isn't prepared to handle so many troops being pumped onto it quite so soon.
show: Nuclear and Manual
Ah, nuclear and manual settings, settings that can award you a medal, and for good reason. Manual Nuclear Suppose you had a 6 player game, and everyone cashed their 3 cards right after the other, this would mean that 18 regions would be nuked, that's literally half the map all in nukes! However, on a larger map such as WWII Europe, it's barely able to affect the game. Note:
show: Team Games
Teams, teams, teams - the games that everyone loves, but how are these games on Greenland, you ask? Well let's take a look ~
show: Additional Notes
Some key things about Greenland:Fog is fun Nice 1v1 number of starting regions Balanced
Other related strategy guides Dust Bowl - Includes decay regions as well Arctic - Approximately same number of regions 
