thanks... that sucks because I already started three google waves...

Could you update the forum with the images taken from the wave?

You can do whatever you think is best. It was just a suggestion.

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Ok airborne, just to be clear, I can draw over real maps in photoshop and then output them to pngs, or some other format, at the two sizes I will need?

You are asking me? I don't really use "real" maps usless they are black and white.
1) First I make two maps of the whole number ratios that are meet the development requirements
2) Black and White them and draw in the actual map
3) Type in the names while still in black in white
4) convert into color and color

I follow a similar system to airborne, except I but in the borders while the map is coloured (too much B/W causes my brain to freeze :)

Well not whole number ratios but you get my point

I wuold like to add a Series, a Baltic Sea map around the time of the Teutonics Knights

hmm might be interesting... that will be incorporated into the unknown series... :D

The Hanseatic League!

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how's it coming along BenGuin?

@Kaner and Oli: I believe you mentioned you were going to create some variants on the Known World variant, e.g.,1001, 601... . I just want to point out that it is no surprise that China is doing well in 901. They start with a big advantage of not only having no one at their backs, but also in only having the fractured Srivijaya and the surrounded India as neighbors. I would recommend "fixing" this variant by adding a power to the north of China and to the east of Russia and Khazaria. Perhaps Khitan (the nomadic Mongols), the Volga Bulgars, or having both would make Asia more balanced.

From what I can see China isn't going particularly well in any of these games:

http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=4138
http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=4137
http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=4148
http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=4131

It seems to me that China's success would depend on his neighbours willingness to leave him alone - as he has 3 of them (Turan/India/Sirijaya) 2 might leave him alone to go at the third, or they could all band together and seize the Chinese SCs (aka what happens to me whenever I play Austria).

As it's a new variant to the site, perhaps we need to wait a bit for some of stats to come in.

When you say a ''nomadic'' power, do you mean something similar to the Turks in Rinascimento?

I see your point. I'm surprised China is doing so poorly in those games, perhaps everyone is so fearful of China, they gang up on China. I would have thought they'd be doing extremely well in 3 out of every 4 games, so please disregard my comment for now, but keep it in mind after we see the data from about 20 games.

As for nomadic power, it could be a special power, sure, but I was just referring to the Mongols at that time in that area, who were nomadic.

The Baltic Campaign is ready for constructive critism and comments

(you can find it here:)

http://forum.webdiplomacy.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=751&sid=1bdacb08c8fe19e92b3b36d08754dd85&p=4194#p4194

Great use of space. Very tight. Almost like Crowded. If that is your intent, then I don't see any obvious concerns. As with any variant though, you may find you want to make a few subtle changes after you play test. Nice job. Can't wait for those Known World variations!

re: Known World 901, it surprises me that Byzantium seems to be going quite well in a few of the games. When I first saw the map I thought that it would be one of the more weaker nations on the board.

Same for me for Egypt and Arabia they're doing more well than I expected, looking at how many neighbours they have. Egy is well placed even in some gunboat. Byz instead have 2 "false" neighbours: Rus and Germany aren't really interested to go towards Byz in the first 3-4 years I believe. For the same reason I can't explain why Srivijaya is doing so bad in some game. Maybe the number of neighbours is not the correct point of view. Surely not in full press games. If Ind & Chi allies against Sri, then Sri could not be able to find allies finding Turan, Arabia and Wag committed somewhere else.

Neighbours interesting each Country at the beginning:
- Arabia 6 (but Byz and India aren't really a threat)
- Egypt 5
- Byzantinum 5 (but Germany and Russia aren't really a threat)
- Khazaria 4
- Turan 4
- Russia 4 (but Byz isn't really a threat)
- Germany 4 (but Byz isn't really a threat)
- India 4 (but Ara isn't really a threat)
- France 3
- Wagadu 3
- Axum 3
- Denmark 3
- China 3
- Spain 3 (he's much more a threat for Egy than Egy for him)
- Srivijaya 2

In a few months stats will tell us something more. But it's a pity stats don't report the average number of SCs a Country ends its games. This would be more significant than Win/Draw/Surv/Def ratios to understand how balanced a map is, IMO. It would also be good having different stats for full-press and gunboats.