New map by Jason Lutes

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
The major problem I have with this map is that it's mostly forest and mountain provinces. There are very, very few good farm land and plains provinces to give you any kind of gold income, and strategic movement is not particulary useful when your troops all have to move through mountains anyways. I also don't really like how rivers carve up the land so badly.

The gold income does seem to be an issue - then again, it forces a different style of play. Likewise the rivers - on the usual maps, there's very few real chokepoints or places that it really is important to place a fortress.

This feels to me more like a medeival / historical map, given that rivers did present huge barriers to armies - likewise mountain ranges. Places where the rivers were fordable, places where bridges had been built, passes through the mountains, those were where fortresses were built.

Whereas most of the Dom2 maps, you tend to have to put a solid blanket of fortresses, because there are precious few natural barriers.

A nice change of pace to the style of play required by other maps.

The only thing I see really flawed about the rivers is, as I've mentioned in this thread, that river's really really shouldn't pose a barrier to flying armies, and possibly not to aquatic races and sea-farers like Vanheim and the one Marignon theme.