Scotland by Balsiefen (gameplay), Oaktown (graphics)
Creation Topic: http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14265
Number of Territories: 40
Number of Continents: 7
Gameplay Features: Capitals, Collections
Recommended Gameplay Settings: 3-5 player standard, 4 player doubles, flat rate cards. Fog of war leads to interesting although difficult gameplay due to small continents being very easy to hide by occupying territories around them and it being hard to view all cities.
Gameplay Feature Associations:
Capitals - The City territories use this feature
Collections - The City territories use this feature
Map Description:
Scotland Is a real geography map
Scotland is structured with two large continents running down the west mainland, 3 medium sized continents to the east of these and two small, easy to hold continents, one south and one west of the larger continents. There is a large bonus given for holding four cities, three of which are placed in the medium eastern continents and the fourth is placed in a territory connecting to two of them.
The map narrows into a bottleneck in the middle with only two territories dividing north from south in two places. this could lead to the map being split into two equal halves, each of roughly the same value.
These features give plenty of different strategies to take the lead early but also gives chances for the leading player to b e outmanoeuvred and find themselves on the defence.
