hey look i see my old house from here!

BTW there's a ferry that will take you across that divide. the beaches on the north (east?) side were MUCH less populous than those on the south -- and you could drive out onto them. 

hasn't Texas seceded yet...?  Thought they were in the process of doing that years ago. It's taking forever!  

Perhaps if we could just have those 2 districts in the far west pinched off...atleast it'd save some money for the wall.  

I'll add it.  Updated the missing borders.

http://www.wargear.net/games/join/542483

Don't know how much seat affects outcome, but I would consider fixed first round bonuses of 4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8..

Played this map many times on WF.  Even if a player starts with an entire region, since the map is so big, that makes almost no difference over the course of the game.  WRT card sets, the original progression keeps the game from lasting a year.

Edit: I misunderstood your post, I think.  You're suggesting changing the first round bonus from 1 per 5 counties?  I like it the way it is, but I'm sure yours can be an alternative scenario?

That would make it so that no matter how much or how little you own, if you're in seat 1 or 2, you get 4 units.  Seats 3 and 4 get 4 units, etc.  Round 2 and on, bonuses are determined by what you own.

camel wrote:

Played this map many times on WF.  Even if a player starts with an entire region, since the map is so big, that makes almost no difference over the course of the game.  WRT card sets, the original progression keeps the game from lasting a year.

Edit: I misunderstood your post, I think.  You're suggesting changing the first round bonus from 1 per 5 counties?  I like it the way it is, but I'm sure yours can be an alternative scenario?

I don't believe you can set the bonus RATIO in the first round. What you can do is set a FIXED bonus for the first round. So in round 1 - 1st and 2nd seats get 4 (not 7), seats 3 and 4 get 5 units, etc.   Like Ed said, with a board that is this large, it may not make much of a difference.  But even perceived parity may be more important than parity itself.

I only perceive parity when I win.

I dug through some game logs on WF and managed to find out the original region names:

(Please excuse my crude graphics skills - I'm using MS Paint for crying out loud!)

I also found the original game color names:

Paint.net is free and just about as easy.  It's how I got started and what I've always used.

This is the map where things started to click for me. Andernut stacked a hundred army on my border and said " that hindered stack is for someone else...not u. He went on to win as usual. I think the card scale was plus 2?

Texas has its own power.......its on its own grid. Also the surf from the andernut ships can get good I hear

*pedantic alert 2*

I just noticed that Calhoun and Jackson counties (both in South Central Gulf Coast) are not touching on the map.  But they do touch in real life.

with how small it is on the map, can't always be exact to life (depends on how it's drawn on the smaller map)

Is it strategically interesting?

If it is, do it.

camel wrote:

*pedantic alert 2*

I just noticed that Calhoun and Jackson counties (both in South Central Gulf Coast) are not touching on the map.  But they do touch in real life.

To be more pedantic, it looks like Calhoun is also touching Arkansas and Matagorda.

ratsy wrote:

Is it strategically interesting?

Geographic pedantry always trumps strategy and gameplay.

Korrun wrote:

camel wrote:

*pedantic alert 2*

I just noticed that Calhoun and Jackson counties (both in South Central Gulf Coast) are not touching on the map.  But they do touch in real life.

To be more pedantic, it looks like Calhoun is also touching Arkansas and Matagorda.

To be even more pedantic, it's actually called Aransas county (but Ed also named it Arkansas county.)

Autocorrect for the fail.

camel wrote:

Korrun wrote:

camel wrote:

*pedantic alert 2*

I just noticed that Calhoun and Jackson counties (both in South Central Gulf Coast) are not touching on the map.  But they do touch in real life.

To be more pedantic, it looks like Calhoun is also touching Arkansas and Matagorda.

To be even more pedantic, it's actually called Aransas county (but Ed also named it Arkansas county.)

Autocorrect for the fail.

Good call.