I've been playing around with some of the texture layers, and changed bits of the sea, and made it a bit bluer. The Isle of Wight has found a home, and the map is now sprinkled with army numbers. I tried a couple of circles, but think they're going to create more clutter than they're worth. I still need to sort out the positions of the names and numbers, but that isn't much of a priority right now... I'd much rather get the gameplay more-or-less worked out - I think it's fairly balanced... The North East is the smallest and easiest to hold bonus, but I don't think it's overpowered. The South West is easier to hold than some other areas, but this is partly because it's tucked away in the corner. I'm reluctant to add any paths across the water, because I think they'd just be a bit contrived. The two easier bonuses are at opposite ends of them map, so I'm not too worried about unbalancing things.
Now I've added the Isle of Wight, does it need an attack line to connect it to Hampshire, or is it obvious that's where the two bits of land connect?
About the Beds and the like … on the new British Isles gimil had the key in the bottom left but there are still millions of threads created by people who did not see or think about the key. I expect you'll run into that same issue here, so why don't you just put "Beds" on both the map and XML and leave no room for misinterpretation?](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall")
gotta stop skimming the blue text 
after "Europa" in my last post should've been a 
