wow... that looks like a pretty fun map! can't wait to see it here and try it out!

but if I may ask- why does England get 5 centers to start with? his 3 on Enlgand, Gib, and Cairo... just wondering...

1) During the early 1900s Britain was the number power superpower in the world at that time. Britain and Russia have 5 SCs. Britain is one of the most important diplomatic influence on the board, Britain will need to talk to everyone because he can affect and by affected by everyone. The two SCs in Gib and Cairo are far from the English Isles and in their own way isolated.

fair enough, reasonable explanation. I didn't know when the map was based, it would involve to much effort on my part to figure it out. haha. I just saw the map and was curious. thanks for explaining.

Fantastic! I was waiting for it! :)

Looks good! Count me in on early game play on this map..

Originally I named it Greenland Sea but after studying Abstraction I decided not to rock the boat and have it as Dnemark Strait

If I may ask, why is it called Abstraction?

Great expansion! It looks pretty solid. That said, my initial concern would be that Italy and Austria still have it tougher than I'd like, and that Britain and France may gain too much from that, i.e., the BF team looks uber formidable. Otherwise, nice job adding playability and working with great ideas from both Abstraction II and Modern. Count me in on the early game play for this variant too.

Why should Britain and France work together?

France's back corner has the annoying Brits in Gib, Cairo remains a distant threat and a block to the French expansion into the other side of the board, Brest is still a threat to the British Isles. Britain still a formiable enemy to France and really does surround the French

Neighboring powers often form alliances. With two of the largest, best positioned powers right next to each other, a BF game-winner looks like it might occur too frequently. Just something to watch out for.

They said the same thing about the Juggernaut and they used to say England was "the Wicked Witch of the West"

I think GB should have either more or or less SCs because of the connection between the MAO and the PG. It gives Britain one the one hand too much power and one the other hand it will have too many fronts to fight on.
I understand and like your point of the great power GB but i fear the map will get too unbalanced because of that :((

It's basically the same positioning as 1900 but without the Suez Canal Rule it takes a full year to really deploy a unit from side of the map to another instead of the clever "half" strength rule in 1900, I don't think GB is all powerful facing a hostile or at least uneasy France, a new and mcuh more powerful Germany, the Turks, and Russia

This definitely looks interesting, and I'd love to be a part of any testing that's going on. I'll reserve judgement until after we see how it plays with Diplomacy involved.

My one thought is, should Berlin maybe touch Cologne? Berlin is forced East against Russia and alone at that. I think that I would like Germany to have a little more flexibility given the central position. Italy seems a little wide open against Austria starting with 3 fleets.

Why is Berlin forced to move East? Whatever happened to Ber-Kie?

I'm also worried about Italy I might revert it back to 1.3 if it is really bad however my theory is an Austrian all out Italy will be rare.
1) With two units committed West Austria has only two units to deal with Turkey and Russia
2) Chances are Russia will move into Bukovina with Warsaw or at least Ukraine. Austria surrenders control of Rumania to Russia without help from the Vie or Tri armies.
3) Turkey will grab Bulgaria or Greece without much of Austria being able to say anything.
4) Italy can call for help to crub Austria from a solo Austrian attack or a triple alliance or RAT