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Thirty Years War (1618-1648)

Unlocks at level 30 or with the Mega Maps Pack
#Real World  #Europe  
Created by zxctycxz [Ollie Bye] (all)
Went public on 3/31/2015
Number of ratings: 351
Average rating: 4.2051 / 5
2264 territories, 792 bonuses, 0 distribution modes

Description

From the jungles of the Amazon to the frozen plains of Russia, from the thriving colonial towns in the New World to the Great Historic Cities of the Old, The mighty Empires Europe are about to be plundged into a conflict to forever change themselves, and the world of which they command the helm. Go fourth, and conquer, for here will greatness be forged!

Reviews

Review by [ESP] Pablo García on 3/31/2015.
Awesome map, thank you :)

By the way, Canary islands should be added in the Crown of Castille, and therefore also in the Spanish Habsburg Dominions and in the Spanish Empire.
25 out of 31 people found this review helpful.
Review by Nathan on 4/3/2015.
Holy cow! This map is insanely awesome. The detail is exquisite, the scope is amazing and the sheer complexity is beyond belief. Unlike some of the maps I've seen with colonies in offset locations, these actually work because of the many connections to them.

You can see from this map why it was called the Thirty Years War - it takes about that long to conquer the whole thing. I mean that in a good way. If you love huge maps, this one will not disappoint.

My only real criticism is that there are a few missing connections. Mainly they are just here and there (one in Central Morocco, iirc). But two major broken connections stand out: Lefkosa (Cyprus) to Anamur (Turkey) and Cide (Turkey) to Baliklava (Crimean). These are huge problems because they isolate the Anatolian peninsula and greatly impede movement.
22 out of 25 people found this review helpful.
Review by Napoléon Bonaparte on 4/2/2015.
Fantastic new map, very large for many players, and will make for very interesting slot games. Inclusion of colonial possessions, Brazil, Asia, Caribbean and North America make the game alot more interesting especially for diplomacy. The number of factions and the way the bonuses are created seem to be very well done, overall a great looking, and an excellent new large-scale map.
15 out of 18 people found this review helpful.
Review by [16] b3rz3rk3r on 6/8/2015.
Found some missing links
Tortola - Anagana (in English antilles)
Leon - Ponferrada (in north spain, below principality of asturias

12 out of 12 people found this review helpful.
Review by Malteus [GER] on 4/16/2015.
I admire the work you put in this map! A great masterpiece!

The white link from Balikava (Crimea) to Cide (Anatolia) does not work.
9 out of 10 people found this review helpful.
Review by Zephyrum on 1/10/2016.
I did one big post about the broken connections I could find by playing and searching the comment section... Well, I missed quite a few, and there are two more I could find after a couple more games.

Einbeck-Nienburg (General vicinity of Hannover, northern HRE)
Zsolna-Beszterce (Near Krakow, a little bit to the south of Silesia, in Royal Hungary)

#FixItOllie!
8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
Review by Ysayell1 on 4/23/2015.
Sprawling, highly detailed map. Yes it's cluttered, but it still plays pretty darn well. I'm not sure about the aesthetics of some of the boxing off to the left. The connection of the sea lanes makes much of the boxing entirely unnecessary and often confusing. The effort is extraordinary and the customization is quite nice. Don't expect a quick game.
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
Review by Gallien on 12/15/2015.
This map is almost god-like! But there is still room for making it better. Especially concerning dutch colonies.

It is sad that the Netherlands and Sweden have to be cut off from their north American colonies. I think at least a connection to some Netherlands' colonies should be made. (Sweden was not a major power in the region so I can accept it not having a route to its american colonies.)
Another case of the Netherlands being a bit neglected is the fact that there is no St.Maarten colony (which was found during the 30 years war). That was a region with a heavy dutch presence that was used as a connection link between their north and south american colonies.

Missing links:
1. Wargren is connected to Ain Deheb, but the map shows it is connected with a province right next to Ain Deheb - to Tahert.
2. Setat isn't connected to Safi on the Atlantic coast of Morocco.

All in all it is my favourite Early Modern period map! That is definetly 5 stars!
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
Review by Hard Man on 4/10/2015.
Absolutely incredible. Great Job!
5 out of 7 people found this review helpful.
Review by bloomis on 6/25/2015.
Amazing gigantic map. Really excellent.

Noticed a couple of bugs. The following territories should connect, but don't:
Safi - Settat
Laoag - Caotang
Fredrikstad - Tonsberg
Gorki - Galichskoye

And these ones do connect, but shouldn't: Lolland - Bornholm

And it looks like Wargren connects to Ain Deheb, not Tahert.
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by Marck VI on 6/21/2015.
Absolutely awesome, this map may be quite hard to play in short times, and yes, it is only playable with slots and many players, and yes, can be frutrating creating a game on this map and praying for get enoght players, but a single good game in it worth all the troubles.
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by [WL] Habsburg Australia!! on 9/1/2015.
Cool map, great for historical era's around 1600-1800
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by Willow on 10/25/2015.
Bassein starting region is completely overpowered... 220 income after 8 turns is too much...
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by Gaia on 4/10/2016.
This is one of my favorite maps. It is especially great for diplos and larger games with 20 people. 5 out of 5 would play again.
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by A_B3 on 10/6/2017.
Huge and time consuming. Some of the regional bonuses are a little imbalanced but very playable nonetheless. High marks for the tremendous effort it took to create this map.
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by bigmactupac on 11/10/2019.
too long
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by Dutch Desire on 7/8/2020.
Strange how you can go directly from Brazil (Natal) to East India (Pulicat), what lies 12.900 km apart (over 2 times the ray of the Earth!), but to go from Udupi to Bhatkal, what has only 80 km between them, the shortest route has 9 territories between them, passing Taiwan (Governorate of Formosa) along the way...

But overall this is one of the best diplomacy maps. 5/5 :)
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by darkwolfgr on 4/10/2016.
gg
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Fulcrum on 8/23/2016.
Amazing.
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by DontAttackMe on 9/2/2016.
I absolutely love this map but the 8 or 9 missing connections really ruin it
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Andalorium on 9/14/2016.
Let me start off with this I love larger maps, things can happen in Larger maps that smaller maps don't have room for, that being said I allow for about 1 1/2 connections errors per thousand territories but this map had triple what I'd allow. so for these the line went between two but no connection and the connection was not shown by a line: Bornholm, Naestved
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Deje47 on 3/21/2017.
Great map
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Martinus on 4/11/2017.
Great map. Little unbalanced: When you start in India you have a big advantage. That's not so nice, because India should be one of the weaker parts in the map. Little ortographical mistake: Veumark should be Neumark
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Beijtje on 4/27/2017.
Very nice map for games with lots of players to play on.
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Petyyy on 8/16/2017.
I liked it!
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Stern on 7/3/2018.
Ok map and playstyle
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Sammaho on 11/5/2018.
This is a nice big map. I recommend setting this up as a multiday game with two or more days. It takes time to figure out your next turn. As mentioned by others; there is a few territories that were incorrectly connected, the line showed the ones next to it connecting. That could mess up somebody's strategy.
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Slagar on 1/6/2019.
Finished a great game after 2 years
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Flittering Night Beast on 2/4/2019.
Too easy when it is not causing Memory issues. Just start in cities for a huge boost. Unfortunately my machine with 8GB of RAM was struggling with the latest game engine. I suspect a memory leak. It was also exceedingly slow. Especially as I had to restart my browser 4 or 5 times to release the memory.
I will be reporting the suspected memory leak.
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Larry_King_3ΡΔ on 4/23/2020.
balanced. Fairly accurate. Captures the full scope of the war. So, it's pretty good.
Prettty good. Prettty. Preettty. Prretty Good.
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Ammaren on 6/12/2021.
Amazing
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by AshMonsty on 8/7/2021.
Great map with lots of potential games beyond just the 30 Years' War
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by [Soviet Union]the red army on 8/24/2021.
the colonial mini maps are a cool idea
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Carlo on 10/12/2021.
the little islands made it unnecessarily long and complicated.
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Shadowzilla on 7/12/2022.
I really enjoy Lady Power's maps. I only wish they would add air drop cards lol.
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by (deleted) on 7/12/2022.
difficult but a good length to complete
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Roberto on 11/18/2022.
accurate to the 30 years war
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Landfrank on 10/26/2023.
great map for diplo, the worst for ffa
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by MetalGear4.5 on 3/6/2024.
good map
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by LordX on 6/3/2015.
I love this excellent map and have played many times on it ! 5 stars !
1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by (deleted) on 6/27/2015.
Good diplos
1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by vlad on 7/6/2015.
Very nice map for a diplo game
1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by Hanibal on 7/27/2015.
great map
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by The Devil on 8/14/2015.
Warlords makes brilliant dipo maps.
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by VaporWolf [FROG] on 10/12/2015.
Very good map in my opinion.
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by PoorRichard on 11/22/2015.
good diplos
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by ludor on 3/25/2022.
porn
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by Dan Douglas on 7/14/2022.
Beautiful map, well designed with great connections. That being said, there are too many territories, too many troops and too much to keep track of. By turn 25, the game just starts getting boring. It really doesn't matter who sets the perimeters, It will still be too bloated. Your map skills are very good and I look forward to playing your smaller maps, If I haven't already.
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by prussianbleu on 3/31/2015.
Great
6 out of 14 people found this review helpful.
Review by [NL] Lucas on 4/1/2015.
Awesome map!

One thing: Kurst has to be kursk
3 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
Review by Njugu on 4/27/2015.
4/5 Only because moving troops from one arena to another is too slow. Very clever use of the inset maps. The research for this map must have been phenomenal! Thank you for a great map :)
1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
Review by (deleted) on 5/30/2015.
fun
0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Review by quatrazerov on 1/15/2016.
0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Review by ҈ * TeeMee123҈ * on 3/31/2015.
Great map! I'm glad it is finally out. Could this be your 3rd MotW? Just a note, this should have some distributions. You could just use the empires and other large bonuses already in this map (e.g. [imperial/allied]-aligned states).

note to [ESP] Pablo García: You are right there. Apart from being harassed by the British around the 1650s, it has been under Spanish authority, since about 1494. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/canary-islands/history
1 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
Review by leandros on 4/3/2015.
Πολυ δυσκολος
0 out of 8 people found this review helpful.