Balsiefen wrote:I think i'll recreate ayrshire to bring us down to 36 again
merging borders and lothian would help
the above ideas sound good though, rather than merging north and south ayrshire, i suggest that creating caithness & sutherland (which was a single administrative district council in the 1980s) as one territory is better for gameplay. this is because ross & cromarty to sutherland to caithness to orkney is a bit of a "monorail".
the islands region has about the right amount of connectivity. the sea routes are pretty clear. putting in a bridge to west inverness-shire would make both the highlands and islands too hard to hold. u could even remove the link between mull and argyll to make the islands more of a fortress (not quite an australia, as the latter has only one exit).
the bonuses here look rather large for map that is smaller than classic. 7 for strathclyde is perfectly justified, as it occupies a pivotal position and is under attack from all directions. i think dumfries & galloway can be reduced to a bonus of 1, since it has only three territories (so someone could start off holding it from the drop) and is well-protected. if u merge caithness with sutherland, then u can reduce the highlands bonus to 4. i assume that u'll simply add lothian to borders (and remove most of the pentland hills) to give a 5 bonus.
taken together, these changes will increase the significance of the areas with which most scots are familiar (the central lowlands), thus helping to popularise the map.
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