Shouldn't Praha be Prague.

Ironheart - if I use regional spellings like Sjælland for Zealand, Rhône for Rhone, Württemberg etc... then I think Praha is a correct name for Prague. It's difficult on such an international map to use original spelling for every teritorry (people could have difficulties in reading cyrillics or greek for example) but i am not the biggest fan of naming every teritorry in english either .. i know it's not exactly coherent this way, but if given the choice and help from players of different nationalities, I would much prefer to write as many names in their original sound instead of writing english translations..

bump.

all i need now before making the map public is somebody knowing russian geography to help me name the russian bonusses...

i'll write a haiku to convey my deep, penetrating thoughts:

russia, cumbersome boni, shapely
y u no make pretty, jedi

Russia N: Ural
Russia E1: Kama
Russia E2: Volga Uplands
Russia W1: Oka
Russia W2: Don
Russia NW: Severny
Russia S: Severo-Kavkazsky

Russia N was named after a mountain range and E1, E2, W1 and W2 after an important river within their borders.
Russia NW roughly corresponds with the Russian Northern economic region, in Russian that's Severny ekonomichesky rayon, so I named it Severny (which probably means "Northern"), because you wanted to stick with local names.
And Russia S' name is Russian for Northern Caucasus.

If you are looking for testers i would be willing to test.

thanks Moros. I changed the bonus names, but added one additional in russia, so now there are two Volgas.. and i think i'm gonna have to figure something out for it.. i still have not yet decided on the final shape on french bonusses, but other than that the map is mostly done..

Volga uplands could also be named Belaya.

(sorry for the double post)
A few more name changes:

• Trondelag -> Trøndelag
  
• Jamtland -> Jämtland
  
• Vasterbotten -> Västerbotten
  
• Gotaland -> Götaland
  
• Skane -> Skåne
  
• Mecklemburg-Vompommern -> Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  
• Zurich -> Zürich
  
• To be consistent with Leningrad, the Paris bonus should be named Île-de-France
  

It was a lot of work, and a lot of testing games. The map seems unbalanced, yet is very playable thanks to it.

new link:

http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=22883

Gui in the other thread said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Swedish_War_(1626%E2%80%9329)

Gustavus Adolphus invaded Poland with his navy via Prussia (the area of Kaliningrad on your map).

I like how Hamburg connects to St. Petersburg. But how about this: make Gotland Island a (neutral?) territory and make Saaremaa and Hiiumaa islands (Estonia) 1 territory.

Then connect Gotland to Hamburg, Saaremaa-Hiiumaa, Kaliningrad, Stockholm, and Pomerania? And connect Saaremaa-Hiiumaa to Gotland, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Estonia, Latvia, Western Finland. And erase the connection between Estonia and Southern Finland. (More Malamute Europe, less Troll Europe.)

Other things I do if the map was mine (? = I'd think about it more):

- Brittany to Ireland is cool (connect the Celtic traditions!). Brittany to England is less historical than the Norman Invasion or D-Day -- which went to (1066) or came from (1945) SW England.
- Cut Thrace in half? It will rock Bulgaria's world as is.
- Belgium: a language divide might be nice.
- The ugliest and least strategic part of the map: the shapes of Russia's bonuses
- North Komi, South Komi? Then have the the Ural territories, the Komis, Perm, and Nenetsie be one bonus of 6 territories.
- Murmansk, Karelia, Archangelsk, Vologda = another bonus
- Kama bonus: minus Perm, plus Ivanovo and Ryazan
- other Russia bonus: Novgorod, Pskov, Tver
- Austria: no Vienna city bonus?
- France: Langue d'Oc (or South France) and Langue d'Oil (North France, better with this name to include Brittany)? France is the second ugliest part of the map (for how it looks and plays)
- Spain: East Spain (Aragon, Valencia, Catalunia, Balearic Islands), South Spain (minus Valencia)
- add Albania to East Balkans?

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I'll reply here, to keep the threads well organized:

how about this: make Gotland Island a (neutral?) territory and make Saaremaa and Hiiumaa islands (...) (More Malamute Europe, less Troll Europe.)

Thanks for the idea - I very much like the idea of Gotland Island and Saaremaa/Hiiumaa islands and i think i'm gonna go that way. btw I wouldn't exactly say the map is anywhere near Troll's map.. Every territory division that seems similar is like that because we both used administrative maps of the regions..

- Cut Thrace in half? It will rock Bulgaria's world as is.

I don't really want to make any changes to greece bonus as it is now.

- Belgium: a language divide might be nice.

I'm not sure about making benelux a 4-terr bonus (i assume you want horizontally divide dutch from french and not include german minorities..)

- The ugliest and least strategic part of the map: the shapes of Russia's bonuses

Turkey is probably the ugliest aesthetically speaking, but i agree that russian bonusses are the hardest for me to design, and might be least strategic here (aside of ural which i believe is very well done)

- North Komi, South Komi? Then have the the Ural territories, the Komis, Perm, and Nenetsie be one bonus of 6 territories.

i don't want to change the Ural bonus, but division of Komi terr and severny bonus might be a good idea i think. I liked how it is now, because it balanced the overpower of ural by isolating that bonus a bit.. The question is - how to divide those to make it strategically interesting, and not creating an area stuffed with small bonusses..

- Murmansk, Karelia, Archangelsk, Vologda = another bonus

without making ural a part of a bigger bonus, it will continue to overpower that region with so many small bonusses around it.. I will have to think of it some more i guess..

- Kama bonus: minus Perm, plus Ivanovo and Ryazan

imho still doesn't make much sense.

- other Russia bonus: Novgorod, Pskov, Tver

good idea

- Austria: no Vienna city bonus?

i wanted to do it, since it's obviously one of the most important cities, but i thought vienna +1 plus an overlapping bonus equal to current austria +3 of 4 terrs would be an overkill.. i might take a shot at it though..

- France: Langue d'Oc (or South France) and Langue d'Oil (North France, better with this name to include Brittany)? France is the second ugliest part of the map (for how it looks and plays)

france was the second most problematic on how to make it playable. I don't quite understand Langue d'Oil - you want me to make it a bonus name, rename Bretagne to it, or what?

- Spain: East Spain (Aragon, Valencia, Catalunia, Balearic Islands), South Spain (minus Valencia)

the idea behind french and spanish 2/2 bonusses was to create a front there and make the region more interesting to play on.. again - i'm not sure if making the bonusses "normal" there (3 of 4 terrs) will help..

- add Albania to East Balkans?

Balkans are renamed from "yugoslavia" and as such make sense without Albania.

Third off, why is central Slovakia called "Bohemia"?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemia


Bohemia is in the Czech Republic though.