Balkan Peninsula

Can't read the territory names on that it's so small. Looks good, have some input on 4 and 5 but would like to see it bigger.

http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/q785/PsymonStark7/Balkan/balkancaps_zps82275925.jpg Photobucket resized the image. I put them in just two maps.

Ok this is odd as far as criticism goes, but I've been playing SOOO many small caps games lately. I like that you made spacing pretty even, love you can hold territories and still get out, but one more thing you have to look at: Consider each player eventually takes their region for bonus. NOW look at your caps and see if their escape paths are equal. Like 2 player, the west cap will be blocked by just Banja Luca if they took a bonus, and there's a 50% chance they have that on the drop. Where the east cap has 3 possible escape routes if they take their bonus. Yeah that's pretty picky I know. But I have help! 2 player: You can move the west to Dalmacia, giving them 2 outs with a bonus 3 player: South cap up one to Dikiti Maki... East cap one to the left to Lovech to even the distances - shorter one, makes for more active game too 4 player: East Cap to Erdine (this evens up the distance from east to south as well - all others are 4 steps, this one is 5 steps right now) 5 player: I can't think of anything, Sridisnja Hrvatska is just screwed if trapped and everyone else takes a bonus. Oh well! :D Non issue on 6 and up, playing for bonus would get you killed by a neighbor pretty easily as card value goes up very fast with 6+ players. 6 and up are all 2 steps from each other, so well done there. This will be played A LOT by me and Muz 4 player. So really make sure 4 player is perfect hahaha! Because I'm selfish like that. Looking at these caps in such detail has made me really appreciate how good looking this map is now. Great work.

Careful! The Main Asteroid Belt here is Sofia Oblast :P. Your proposals for 3/4 caps make one path shorter. Lovech-DMak is only 3 steps away. Zajecar-Edirne is also 3 via Sofia Oblast. I think one longer path is better than one shorter. For 2P I agree with you. I already changed it.

Well I couldn't answer properly without a computer (and without remembering all that I have read :P) It is not 50% chance of Banja Luka of your color in 2P, it's more like 31% (39% taking into account the chance of getting both Mostar and Tuzla without getting Banja Luka). Still, I think Dalmacia is better. (I hope my math isn't wrong :P). For 5P, it is reduced to less than 20%, we can't neglect it either. But it's the only way I found to get 5 caps equispaced in 3 steps. Also, there is a pro for Kirklareli as 4P cap. It's the only one that can reach every territory on its region. No other cap is able to do that, so you can get your bonus easier.

And now it is β ^^

I've been ignoring map threads for a while, but it's become a pretty, well done! I have two remarks: 1) The yellow three on the minimap looks weird. I think that's because all text looks like its transparant, but the yellow three is a bit over the ocean, but not blue. Maybe move it a bit. 2) Also, the neutral land has very little texture compared to the rest, but maybe it's better that way to draw less attention.

You should redraw map.It is to political. First Albania and Montenegro and Greece should be separated in separated regions. Macedonia should be named as the name it is, not Skopje, Pelagonia or something like that. You used "Makedonia" for 3 regions in Greece there (in Greece) till 1989 year was forbidden to say( pronounce) this word loudly.

@Matty: The 3 difficultly fits in the region... I'll see what can I do though.

playing my first game on it, psymon. Been waiting to play this map for a while now!

@zocpoc: This is a risk map. Albania and Montenegro are together for gameplay reasons. And they are still split by its administrative frontiers, and called "Crna Gora & Shqipëria". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_regions_of_Greece http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_regions_of_Macedonia Macedonia is called "Makedonija" when the region is held.

Thank you for the explanation. This is generally bigger problem than it looks like and not for this Forum.

this sets a record for the longest time it takes for a map to enter beta in DXII history. :o

Ultras has been around so long to make that assertion! Lol, really though, most maps take forever to get approved. Hopefully, that's a good thing. Keeva island is STILL pre beta.

Congrats on getting this one out there Psymon! I look forward to playing on it.