Holy Roman Empire

[spoiler=bridges and mountains draft][img]https://i.ibb.co/w7khTCh/canvas-9.png[/img][/spoiler] I think now the main things are 1. How do I make regions more defensible? Some I feel are a bit too open but im not sure how to fix that using natural borders. I could also just up the bonus but im not sure. 2. Graphics, I'll need a more experienced cartographers input on those. 3. Do I have enough or too little of the alps AND are all the bridges in the right spot(not sure on the most eastern purple region.)

I do think that the calculator may not work as well for this map, I'll need to think about the super regions I was talking about. Do you think 3 super regions is too few? It may be...

I think 3 superregions are fine. Especially because it's the historical split occurred in that year. I suggest to include also the white area but to not give it any superbonus bcoz it wasn't part of the Empire. Just an idea.

Sorry for so many posts but I added some more rivers that might help the problem(pretty accurate overall) [spoiler=more rivers][img]https://i.ibb.co/Pmq951M/canvas-10.png[/img][/spoiler] does anyone have any suggestions for sites to use to make it look nicer?

The last question makes me wonder if you have the 'graphic skills' Hippo or you haven't. I can't help much because I struggle myself. It's a hard job that can take years -- to me -- for making just one map. You should use a program like Photoshop, or Gimp, or Paintnet and remember the standard size for a map is 1024 px wide.

[quote=The_Bishop]The last question makes me wonder if you have the 'graphic skills' Hippo or you haven't. I can't help much because I struggle myself. It's a hard job that can take years -- to me -- for making just one map. You should use a program like Photoshop, or Gimp, or Paintnet and remember the standard size for a map is 1024 px wide.[/quote] I don't have the skills no. Could I develop them? Yes. Could I also ask hood for help, because he's really good at that stuff? Yes.

Can you walk from one end of the white region to the other, without going through other regions? If not, why is it one region? or why does it not have a bridge there?

The white region is still up for debate whether it should exist or be grayed out. If you have any thoughts I would love to hear them!

[spoiler=Bonuses Draft][img]https://i.ibb.co/bbh7CWR/canvas-15.png[/img][/spoiler] [spoiler=Super Regions without bonuses][img]https://i.ibb.co/10Sjjtq/canvas-14.png[/img][/spoiler] So the Red, Purple, and Pink regions are the super regions. I'm not sure how much of a bonus to give them given the bonuses, I would love some input on both Super bonuses and regular bonuses [spoiler=Territories, Rivers, Mountains, Bridges, Regions][img]https://i.ibb.co/7K4qqYt/canvas-16.png[/img][/spoiler] Some of the super small territories I got rid of and combined with other territories, so this is a bit different than the last post.

Super regions don't necessarily need to have their own bonuses. The way to make super regions viable is to make it so that if you control all regions in the super region, there are only a few borders to the outside. That means that the regions may have a lot of internal bonuses to each other, but not necessarily to the outside. For example, on the [url=https://dominating12.com/assets/img/maps/22.large.jpg]World Expanded[/url] map, South America is three different regions, each individually not super great, but if you get all of them together, there's only 3 borders to defend, for a whopping +5 bonus! Australia is not a great region, nor is Indonesia, but those two together with China, Vietnam, and Taiwan create another region with 3 borders for a +6 bonus! So by making sure these bottlenecks exist in the map, you could make super regions without needing additional bonuses. Of course, you could also have super regions with bonuses, but then it's largely a cosmetic bonus to represent a historical state of things. Could lead to some nice strategy, but it will likely not be gameplay defining for the map.

I think it would be too hard without any oceans... there would be alot of land blocks, but it's something to keep in mind.

I think I'll end up doing +3, +4, +3 from left to right for the super regions...

[spoiler=With mini maps][img]https://i.ibb.co/yXfgPVr/Untitled-drawing.png[/img][/spoiler]

[quote=Cireon]Super regions don't necessarily need to have their own bonuses. The way to make super regions viable is to make it so that if you control all regions in the super region, there are only a few borders to the outside. That means that the regions may have a lot of internal bonuses to each other, but not necessarily to the outside. For example, on the [url=https://dominating12.com/assets/img/maps/22.large.jpg]World Expanded[/url] map, South America is three different regions, each individually not super great, but if you get all of them together, there's only 3 borders to defend, for a whopping +5 bonus! Australia is not a great region, nor is Indonesia, but those two together with China, Vietnam, and Taiwan create another region with 3 borders for a +6 bonus! So by making sure these bottlenecks exist in the map, you could make super regions without needing additional bonuses. Of course, you could also have super regions with bonuses, but then it's largely a cosmetic bonus to represent a historical state of things. Could lead to some nice strategy, but it will likely not be gameplay defining for the map.[/quote] I've been thinking a lot about this, would a set up like this be better? I think there are only like 4 entries to each super region or so. [spoiler][img]https://i.ibb.co/3rMv4Pt/canvas-18.png[/img][/spoiler]

First thing that I notice: that one green territory is blocking entry into Italy. Am I correct? If so, capital players that accidentally have that territory are in a bad position. Or is there an entry into Italy on the right as well? Also that top right yellow region has only 1 border, which is a bit OP I think.