Divide the island of Cyprus into 2

And also, really check your sea connections. I see many confusing spots/missing visible connections, not just Socotra.

And I really think the plates system would be worth it; it would be much easier to spot missing connections (and thus, correct).

Edited 12/14/2014 15:47:20

I haven't been making changes to the version I linked earlier, this is the most current version:

https://www.warlight.net/SinglePlayer?PreviewMap=38859

There was a problem with Mersin(Turkey) connecting with Linassol(Cyprus), and Istanbul not connecting with the Aegean Sea, but those have been fixed. I haven't found any other errors in the sea connections.

If there are any I'm unaware of, I'd appreciate specifics. For example, I still don't see the issue with Socotra.

I doubt Fizzer will publish it with those ginormous territories.

What's the problem with them specifically? I want the map to be accurate, would you suggest just arbitrarily dividing them into North Eastern Province, Central Eastern Province, South Eastern Province kind of things?

I'd divide it far more than that. The problem with it is that the number will be tiny inside this giant territory.

http://wiki.warlight.net/index.php/Map_guidelines

Do it the way you want though, don't let me stop you.

Gonna take a bit to offset all the bonus borders, but I'm working on it.

Thinking about possible super-bonuses:

Kurdistan


ISIS


Shia/Sunni


Any other ideas?

That Shia and Sunni map looks awfully inaccurate. Russia is bare of almost any Islam (according to the map), so is Nakchivichan and Nagorno-Kabarakh. Also, I don't remember Shi'a being that big...just Iran and Azerbaijan, plus 40% of Iraq.

The problem is though that most of these countries are made up of mainly uninhabitable desert with most of the population living I settlements along the rivers. When these countries divide up, they ideally want each of their counties/regions/provinces/whatever to have a similar population. This means some sub-divisions will take up a large area because most of the land there is empty desert bordering the towns and cities with a notable population.

I don't think that's so much of a problem, if you manage your boni well enough.

https://www.warlight.net/Play?PreviewMap=38859

Attempted to divide the map between Shia/Sunni(using a better map from Wikipedia, hopefully), added a bonus for Kurdish Independence, One-state Solution, and ISIS.

Also started working on scenario distributions. Countries, Countries + Kurdistan, and Islamic Schools.

Here are some of the maps I was working off:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Madhhab_Map_%28Divisions_of_Islam%29.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Sunni-Shi'a_map.png


I've removed Bahrain, it's just too small, and not significant enough to have a pop-out taking up one corner.

About halfway done offsetting bonus borders, so it should hopefully just be a matter of fine-tuning the bonuses and distributions now.

I think you should have one territory representing Bahrain.

I'm not sure if I can fit it in, but I'll give it a go.

Adding a little character to the water, based on correct(but highly simplified) bathymetric data:



Edited 12/22/2014 16:18:02

Choose how you'll name your territories. For example, you can't put Soqatra and at the same time, Nineveh. It needs to be Socotra and Nineveh or Soqatra and Ninawa.

I just got the names from Wikipedia articles listing governorates, and used the names as they had them:

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

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

It's not referencing the archipelago of Socotra, but the governorate of Soqatra. If that's wrong, I'll gladly change it if you can reference me a correction.

Edited 12/22/2014 18:50:41

The Wikipedia article seemed awfully sparse on information about the muhafazat of Soqatra. I'm almost sure that it can be correctly referenced to as Socotra governorate. But I can't read Arabic and all information related to this seems to be in Arabic, so you win.