Nine Men's Morris

[docchaos]

Although I'm new here, I've been thinking about making maps. What do you think about using a Nine Men's Morris board as a map.
Every intersection is a country, every mill is a continent. Of course with each continent consisting of only 3 countries the bonus for each one should be at most 2. The only drawback is that there are only 24 countries, I don't know if this is enough. Is there any rule of thumb how many countries a map should at least have?

[gavin_sidhu]

What is nine man morris? Picture?

[Ronaldinho]

yeah i dont have a clue what that is................and i think there is a general amount of countries you have to have but im not 100% sure though

[Scorba]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_mens_morris

I'd say 24 countries is defintely too few. Two boards along side each other might work.

[Marvaddin]

What do you think about using a Nine Men's Morris board as a map.

Argh! I hate the idea.

[Ronaldinho]

thanks scorba for the pic but if anyone is crazy enough to make that map then your sick lol sorry bout the font but its such a poor idea i was almost offended......

[docchaos]

Why exactly is it apoor idea?

Scorba, thanks for the picture, forgot to post it myself. Yeah, two boards alongside each other might work, gotta figure out, how I'll connect them.However it doesn't make sense if most people don't like it.

[Pedronicus]

Why exactly is it apoor idea?

Did you look on the link to Wikpedia?

It's fucking terrible to look at, and is so symetrical it won't work.

So much utter crap is suggested in this forum, I rarely come here anymore... [cheers from everyone else no doubt]

[rocksolid]

Boards side by side with a portal...or maybe two one-way portals, from the inner ring of one to the outer ring of the other, or vice-versa.

This is probably needless to say, but I'm in favour of the idea.