Looking like a great map Im curious about bonus sizes and values. It shows an exact date in history or the crusader times in the 11-13 century?

I think I will make a bonus for every territory. In that case I will be able to tie the bonus value to the amount of holdings in that province in Crusader Kings game.

I will also add superbonuses for kingdoms, but I am not sure what to do with duchies - they differ in size greatly (from 1 province to 8 provinces and everything in between). On the other hand the smallest kingdoms can also have about 8 provinces...

As for the time represented on the map - frankly, I do not know. Probably I will have to chose some preferred date but I think the map does not have to be too specific here.

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Baltic region is not part of the map although there were crusader wars against baltic pagans, instead there are Central-Asia in turn there were no crusades.

I think it is not problem if the date of the map is not too specific, however the time of crusades is a long period with changing borders in Hispania, the Holy Land and other places as well, so not would be lucky to represent different states wich didnt exist at the same time, you should choose at least a century to avoid these things.

I decided to include the Middle East region for otherwise the christian and islamic worlds would be too unequal - the muslims would be easily crushed by the crusaders if I included only Maghreb, Egypt and the Levant.

As for the Baltic region - yes, there were the Northern Crusades there. But in order to represent them fully, I would need to include Sweden, Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Livonia and Estonia. Then I would probably need to include all the lands between Novgorod, Hungary and the Black Sea to prevent the map from becomming C-shaped. As I have said earlier, there are already maps that represent medieval Europe along with its northeastern part. I wanted to concentrate on western europe and its relations with the muslim world.

Probably I should change the name of the map. Frankly, I called it after the name of the game - Crusader Kings. And it seemed acceptable to me, for the crusades were the main story between western europe and the muslim world in the medieval times. But may be I should rename it somehow.

As for the time frame... Probably you are right, I will have to chose it before I start making bonuses.

Finished the naming. At least for the first time.

I did not use any diacritical marks! I know that is not right, but it would take a huge amount of time.

I also tried to use dual names for regions like Iberian peninsula (Arabic - Spanish), Anatolia (Byzantine - Turkish) and the Levant (Arab - Crusader). But I am not sure if it should stay like this.

I see your progress and like it. ^^

This looks great so far, good job!

Are you still working on it?

Well, actually I had to make a pause. Currently I am moving from one flat to another so I do not have much time - but soon I'll continue work.

It has progress, awesome! :D

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