Kaplowitz wrote:Is the gameplay good ed? or at least better?
well hard to say. problem is not often do people look at a map's gameplay as a whole. you can understand why as it's not easy like "these continent has 4 territories and 2 borders, it shouldn't be +3".
I'd say it's not good in that you have 4 continents with 4 or more border territories and 1 with 2 borders. doesn't seem like holding areas will come easily save the one and if someone does hold it, they have quite the advantage.
the yellow area should be +4 and the grey +5 btw.
Like I've said before, I wish the red and grey areas weren't as they are. I wish there was a north/south split instead of what you've currently got (give brig to red and give Neuchatel and Jura to grey creating a +3 area in Red). But, if that's not a real-life split not much you can do.
if you make the yellow/grey bonus switch as I've said then each individual continent will be basically correct bonus wise but I don't think they'll work particularly well in making a fun map. But, I'm only one guy and without actually playing on it, you can't really say for sure. If possible bring a few of your RL friends together and play a couple test games on it. Ideally this should be done for every map but I'm not naive and I realize this is not possible in 95% of the cases.