oaktown wrote:renamed Chinese Turkestan to avoid in-game confusion.
sinkiang is the traditional spelling that is contemporary with the spellings peking and canton. the new chinese spelling xinjiang became widely-used only from about 1980 onward.
iancanton wrote:adjust the border so that it is canton (currently yunnan) that has the sea link to the philippine islands.
canton was by far the number one port in southern china, partly because all foreign trade had to be conducted through canton till well into the 19th century. can u redraw the canton-shanghai border so that shanghai's southern border with canton is roughly horizontal, at the latitude of taiwan?
hainan island, in the south, was (and is) chinese, not part of a south-east asian country.
i've linked to a mock-up, where the changes are in dayglo yellow.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/268 ... 911f_m.jpgoaktown wrote:I had Australia as a UK colony until page six...
asl80 wrote:sorry ... haven't read anything in this topic yet ... but the map looks good, only that in 1910 Australia had been federated (from 1901) and was no longer a colony of britain, though we did still shine thier boots for a long time remaining a "dominion" of britain or something of the sorts - meaning the boots we lick are still the queens ... but these have/had no official/practical bearing after federation.
I've read up a bit on this and asl80 is correct of course, though they have remained a part of the commonwealth (thus all the Aussies working in London!). If somebody can sort out New Zealand for me it'd be nice: they were also self-governing by 1910, and named an independent "Dominion" in 1907.
both australia and new zealand had full internal self-government, though foreign affairs was an empire responsibility. here's an extract from an aussie government website explaining the significance of the post-ww1 treaty of versailles in 1919. australia is described as one of the colonies of great britain. it is also a signatory of the treaty and a founding member of the league of nations. as clear as mud!
Prior to 1919 the Australian Government was frequently not even consulted regarding political treaties, which were signed by Britain for its Dominions.
With the other three British Dominions, Australia was among the 32 signatories of the Treaty, and a founding member of the League of Nations it established. This newly defined status is indicated in the list of nations on page 18 of the Treaty, where the names of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa are indented under the 'British Empire'. The Treaty recognised a new status for these nations among all the colonies of Great Britain, as only fully self-governing nations could be members of the League of Nations.http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item.asp?dID=23are u going to remove the attack route between france and french west africa? it seems odd to have, for the same colony, both a direct attack route and bombardment through the french trading company. given a choice, the latter won't be used.
oaktown wrote:I've got the map at 71 territories, of which four start neutral (the Trading Co's). Game start will look like this:
2/3 players: 22 terits each, 1 neutral
In a two player game the first player will get 7 armies to start, and can knock his opponent's bonus down by taking two territories... this won't be impossible to do and could give the first player an advantage, but really there is never going to be a perfect start for a two player game on a 60+ territory map.
Adding two territories to Japan makes Japan a tough start, and I feel as if we already have enough tough starts on this map. If the consensus is that the two player situation is that bad we could split up Japan, or we could leave Japan as is and just NOT start the Trading Companies neutral.
i see ur point about japan. it's the only truly easy start on the whole map.
two more territories will bring the 2-player start to 23 each, which means the first player must win 3 territories from his opponent to reduce the latter's initial deployment. playing sensibly, there is a less than 50% chance of this happening; the probability is more than 50% if the players start on 22 each. u've already mentioned ireland as a possibility. another, more pressing, addition is indochina, the creation of which fixes a historical faux-pas: siam was never a french colony!
ian.
)
, as the entire graphics, keep going!
