Neutrals 24 to 128 Teritories

I have made an image from a spread-sheet that calculates the troop division and remaining neutrals for 2p - 9p on maps with between 24 & 128 territories.

Also shown are the non-permitted territory amounts.

By viewing this quick reference, map makers can decide how many territories will be best for their map and which amounts give the fairest and most evenly spread troop spawns.

The most optimum territory quantities appear to be 72 & 120.

Please do not post comments here, it is a resource / reference page.

I have remade the spread-sheet & image to account for 2p system.
Click refresh to see the new version.

Nice job, but the amount of neutrals is much higher in 2p games and it is not a problem, really it's an interesting part of the game.

12 starting territories should be marked in red, it is something we want to avoid. 15 territories are a smaller problem but still not good. 18 or higher multiple of 3, I don't even mind about them.

I have remade the spread-sheet image and accounted for 2p system and as requested, put the relative 12's in red. They are only really applicable on the 'non permitted amounts' anyway.

Good numbers as amount of territories are:
30, 32, 33, 35,
40, 42, 44,
52, 56 great,
65, 66,
81 perfect,
91 so&so,
104,
117,
128.

Those numbers that I have suggested above are in my opinion the best compromise between not having too many neutrals and not having unfair setups with 12 or 15 territories per player (18 also perhaps).

Usually 1 or 2 territories more is still fine, while 1 or 2 less is usually very bad.
Exception: 63 is acceptable (good for 7 and 9), 64 is better (also good for 4 and 8), 65 and 66 are best (good for any number of players).

60, 61 and 62: Red alert!! Unfair setups with multiples of 3, and even if you avoid 4-5p games you still have many neutrals in 7-8-9p games
(in other words they are good only for 6 players).

The numbers suggested by aeronautic aren't good either, having similar problems to those of the number 60.
72 is acceptable, 75 is more problematic, 108 is the worst, 120 also not-so-good because it's 8x15... In that area 117 and 128 are the best numbers!