Ancestral Waters

[quote=The_Bishop]Nice! Yep, all-flat is better I think. I appreciate the placement of the ports, it's much more rational and intuitive! Ehm.. The bonuses, yes maybe a bit too high. Mindanao should be lower than Visayas I think, you inverted them. I'm not much concerned about +4 for Luzon, but about +7 for the British Isles, it's a lot! Same for the Philipines at +11. I suggest to reduce of one point any of the parts of the compound regions... I mean: GB +3, Ireland +1, [B.I. +1], Luzon +3, Visayas +2, Mindanao +1, [PH. +2]; and the others unchanged or just reduce NZ by one: Hawaii +2, New Zealand +2/+3. This will make the balance in my opinion, otherwise the British Isles would be too rich.! lol P.S. your bonus key is very clear, I don't feel to change it for a minimap.[/quote] i've done some chopping and changing since that last image. due to a few test games, and input from players. images might be my cheesy taste, but chat gpt printed out some accurate representation that i asked first go. so slotted them in for now. celtic gaelic, illocano, hawaiian and maori warriors. there was a port moved to ireland, i think it worked better for 2 and 3 player capped game positions that we tested so far. ill take a look at the super bonus. [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/dfNRTc2.jpeg[/img][/spoiler]

Amazing look! :) I would say don't change anything, but I have to say that I find a bit hard to see the red troops on the Hawaii. Perhaps it's only me, I don't know...

It's very very nice looking... The only thing not entirely convincing for me is that transparent guy with a blue arm, carring a blue club. I would try, if possible, to remove a portion of the blue background, cutting it all around the arm and the club. Could it make sense?

yeah. i did have it cut off at one stage, but then saw that they all had their weapons showing except for the Maori warrior. and of course, i wanted the Maori specifically highlighted in the ancestral theme so decided to display it. I thought it was a good fit having the Patu (club) extended in the north island where the musket wars, and all Maori related wars were heavily fought.

Yes, that [i]Patu[/i] there is cool.. Perhaps, just raise a bit the opacity of all warriors and will be fine. I dunno.

the tricky part is finding where i put my master copy for this project :) as i keep dozens of versions sometimes, and i've shifted things around on my pc. and the copy that i found, has the images fixed. on the frame. but i could still probably find the images on my chat gpt or gemini chats.