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Nine Men's Morris

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:00 am
by 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?

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:45 am
by gavin_sidhu
What is nine man morris? Picture?

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:10 am
by 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

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:34 am
by 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.

Re: Nine Men's Morris

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:24 pm
by Marvaddin
docchaos wrote:What do you think about using a Nine Men's Morris board as a map.

Argh! I hate the idea.

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:44 pm
by 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......

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:24 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:06 pm
by 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]

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:44 pm
by 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.