I don't know. I wrote this to report that the colours in the map of game are different from the colours of the map in the variant page.

also to get the first game of this variant I bet :)

The map being shown there is the version that the game engine sees in order to see boundaries between provinces. It's showing the wrong version for us, which is a bug.

@kaner, bet won :D

yup. that's a bug.

do I need to share some points? :p

is there a discussion in the end whether the map should be improved or something like that? It seems like fun but also very very tough....

Why are there 1. and 2. at special rules, but nothing written ?
O.o

Why don{t Russia and Turkey have fleets in Black Sea? Do we really need to make the Juggernaut even more attractive?

Because the Russikis will be just be thrilled by the possible Ang-Cau which threatens TWO Russian Home SCs instead of the one in Standard

@kaug
I gave plenty of time during development for input, Guaroz in particular had some helpful statements. If you really had a problem you should of spoken when I posted a preview. I was still open to change there when a friend recommended Palermo to be moved to Bari. You are critizing one issue of the map without viewing the changes made all over the map. Yes Jug is attractive but so is Austria/Russia and even Austria/Turkey. I would hope the alliances with be roughly at 33% for each. The same sort of goal made in the brillant 1900. In fact Turkey could tie up two Russian units and prevent the capture of Turkenistan with Angora. It's not like the tensions have competely dissappeared with the lose of the Black Sea situation Turkey and/or Russia could just and easily coem to blows and be greedy over Central Asia. Freed from the Black Sea crisis both powers are hopefully given more options in the opening year which I'm hoping. Turkey in mind in any case is better off to attak Russia now with Ang-Cau and Smy-Con which put Turkey to take the Black Sea and there is nothing Russia can do about it. Russia can also be a pain if he is willing to give up on Rumania and Turk with Sev S Mos-Cau. Maybe, you are right I would need to make a change later however your statement in its present form shows a lack of sound reasoning behind it and I find offensive. Please clarify your opinion if you are not trying to insult here

Sincerely,
airborne

@Kaner406, Sorry but no you can't convoy through Gibraltar, I had to make Gibraltar a "Coast" space which techinally the board copy I have has Gibraltar where you convoy through it. I'm not quite sure how the coding would work behind a Sea, SC, *Can Hold) Armies Yes, Fleet Yes so I decided just to leave it as a Coast space just for simplicity sake

So are here special rules or not ?
>:O

No

What about MAO and Persian Gulf ?

Oops yes I guess well it's more like a territory link footnoe

I want to see how the first few games of Abstraction goes but I am considering a few changes

Possible Changes
-Add Emilia-Romagna spliting Venetia in two with Emilia connected to Rom, Adr and Bari and Venetia connected to Tyr, Tri, Emi, Rom, and Mil.
-Change Sevastopol and Angora to fleets
-Change Gib to a Sea Space with Army holding capabilities with a "river hack" which Kaner messaged me about
-Add a link between Cairo and the Mid-Atlantic Ocean

If you go ahead with splitting Venetia, why not make the split so that both new territories border on Mil? Seems like a better place to divide.

why a link between Cairo and mid Atlantic? I don't even understand how that would be done, and the thousand mile gap exists geographically

So I would assume that is a river going through Cau? if you don't mind me asking, why make it so straight instead of a little bit of a curve to it? other than that looks like a lot of fun and can't wait to get the points to try it!

because it's a canal not a river.

How about a link between red sea and persian gulf?

or can fleets currently navigate the one coast of arabia?

AHH I see!!! well that makes total sense than!

As I replied awhile ago in another forum Red Sea connects to Persia Gulf and Mid Atlantic Ocean. This was a workaround the Suez Canal Rule used in 1900 (I used this map as reference for A3) With "half strength" units moving between Mid and Egypt and Hejaz in 1900. Red Sea represents the length and time it would be for a fleet to go aruond Africa but, within the seasonal timeframe is still reasonable. I think that is the special rules going to be stated with the variant, the text file or docx might of been screwed up

Yeah Arabia is just one coast with the links as they are

The simpliest situation to Italy I would think would to change Bari to Apulia (Non-SC) and Sicily to Palermo (SC) again, I refraining from touching the map till the first few games reveal the map's flaws or not

@orathaic & butterhead: I think it's technically two rivers (the Volga and the Don) which are connected by a 100km canal, allowing sea traffic from the caspian out to the Black Sea & on. For simplicity sake I think airborne's gone with a single straight line rather than two squiggles & one straight.

(see the Modern map for how it technically looks correct)

Indeed