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Old March 4th, 2005, 05:17 PM

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I would accept Valhalla just given the number of provinces. But there is so much water and the water is everywhere, geographically, such that things might get unbalanced if someone plays a water race.

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Old March 4th, 2005, 06:00 PM
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Valhalla sucks:
You can't tell waste from grassland.
Fords are barely identifiable.
Essentially, the land is all strung up, there's no coast or inland.
I can't stand the colour for long


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We needn't do it ourselves. Gandalf has a bunch of ramdom maps with 80 prov for download at
http://www.dom2minions.com/~dominion...humbnails.html
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Old March 4th, 2005, 06:28 PM

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Those are some pretty nice maps. I'm fine with using these random ones. My suggestions are:

Map S23 : If we have no water nations (or two water nations). Placing the team capitals more or less vertically on the right and left sides will provide a VERY wide front in the middle, which is great!

Map S25 : If we have one water nation. In that case we could place the capitals horizontally and also have a good front.


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We needn't do it ourselves. Gandalf has a bunch of ramdom
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If your going for diplomacy and fairness I would recommend a map that wraps. Inland is nice.
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I'd like to play Vanhiem. Not sure what theme yet...
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S23 is good

that is current leader righ tnow
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