So far I really like this map, specially the little touches (I like the north atlantic fishing and wrecks), great job!Īctually, Mace dominated Athene and Sparta and when Alexander died, it was split into many : Ptol and Seleucides are the 2 most famous and they fought each other while Rome was on the rise. I am not sure why there's an hellenic CC there (was there an hellenic population in north italy, I think there were some celts there). Remove one of the rivers on north italy to make more breathing room for rome maybe. North Africa, Celtic and Macedon territory would always be the best spot, but maybe we can make it more manageable. With regard to territory, if we are looking for a good representation of Europe it does not make sense to talk about balance. It's unfortunate that we are limited to 8 players, this would be awesome to have all european-north africa-anatolia civs (no space for ptol, pers and maury), Sparta could be put on south of greece but little space. I think making Seleucids a player could be good too but would require taking off a civ (maybe Suebi since they are another brit?). I see some potential in that region, and having ccs nearby is not a problem since historically these civs fought a lot against each other. With regard to civs, maybe Sciti could be gaia, put Macedon a bit more north and Athens south of where Macedon is. Roman situation is bad, against gaia and no territory
Galli no stone and metal in territory (need to get with barracks or p2) Britons dont have enough space to do farming Can't choose civ, start as Carthaginians Look the rivers, they are flooding France, but yet, still too small for any I tried it, it seems all players are attacked by gaia on start? Same as islands, just a nuisance for boats, matter of scale impossible to use them as colonies. The Alps, same problem, a matter of scale, now it's just a nuisance on the map with no strategic use. I'm not saying the map is bad, i'm saying it will be better to cover less no, the solution is not making Italy disproportionally too big the problem will remain the same, Rome at P3 will cover the whole Italy with no trees and resources. At that time, whole Greece was ruled by Macedonia, so you don't need Sparta and Athene on the map. Your map would be great if you make a giant map with only the territory inside the black circle so you can make it like the Punic Wars campaign (Rome vs Carthage) or the Macedonian wars (Rome vs Macedonia). in a result, you have all your civs concentrated in little part of the map and Spain territory - the size of a CC ! It will be a nice map to see, but a awful map to play ! If you don't understand what i wrote in my previous post take the extreme case : you make a giant map of the whole planet : You have Canada, Russia, South America. I'm just saying that your map is too ambitious.