Thanks for the feedback guys, I really appreciate it.
i'm a bit concerned with the castle bonus. +5 for 1 terit with 1 border?
Your whole area with the conquistadors needs a major look at. Too much bonus for so little territory. With 5 neutrals to take out, no one will take it as all of the way zone can attack it.
First, even though the Spanish Fort (castle) is only attacked by one terit, it is extremely hard to hold because, as koontz pointed out it is only protected by the Conquistador who can be attacked by all of the war zone. That is why it was given the +5 bonus, so that players would find it appealing to try for, and be more of a plausible strategic play. With a bonus of +5 for taking out 5 neutrals there are dozens of playable opportunities for players, in any game type to take this bonus, and then secure it at the Conquistador.
I would suggest you take out the whole region and make it part of the war zone.
I think this would take away a big part of the strategic play of the fort, and conquistador. On a side note, the theme of the map (and the War Zone) was somewhat designed around the fort, the natural impassable of the St Johns River (the longest river in Florida) and it's time period. Once the Spanish landed in St Augustine, looking for the fountain of youth, and established their colony, and the Castillo De San Marcos, it lead to the eventual slaughter, by hand and disease of most of the Native American Indian tribes. Thus you have this little protected area to which they eventually exploded.
With the bonuses (and I am sorry for saying this as it will cause you no end of pain), in the legend you have a symbol for a tribal chief. On the map there is only one. I understand that this symbol represents only one of the many chiefs you have and that you wanted all of them to have there own symbol but there will be players confused by this.
The current legend was worked out with the help of MarshalNey's feedback, and while it only holds one of the tribes symbols I think it is clearly implied that they are only there to represent all of the symbols as a whole. I think no matter what you do or change, if it's not the Classic map there will be something that confuses someone. Please take a look back at v3.2 on the first post to see the legend I had changed to from the current, and then based on feedback changed back from that to what you see now.
another concern is the bow and hatchet bonus. in the legend it says +2 but is that +2 for each bow? or +2 for all bows? if it is for each bow then it's way too much. if it's for all bows then it might be too little. and in any case it must be made clearer in the legend.
The bonus of +2 is for each bow and arrow, and +2 for each tomahawk. Which I will try to clarify in the legend, but that issue had not been expressed previously. And just to ask out of curiosity, why is +2 too much? The values had been debated in previous posts and seemed to have settled on +2 being not only reasonable, but to also make them a playable option. You might find that as a reoccurring theme, but I'm not a fan of bonuses that go to waste during a game. With their being 6 total weapons, them starting 2 neutral, and being +2, why won't players fight for them? Or at the very least take one or two?
also some of the other bonuses seem weird. miccosukee has +3 for 1 terit. Ais has +3 for 2 terits. too much.
If you look back at the previous versions you'll see the current values had been worked out based on forum and Mod input, which I am more than open to. The current values were debated out, and settled based not only on the number of terits within the region, but also taking into consideration the number of terits that can attack that region. For instance, Miccosukee is only 1 terit, but it is attacked by all of the War Zone, and by JE-2. This makes it pretty hard to hold, so the +3 is an incentive for players to take it. Ais, is the same way. At +1 or even +2, no one would bother taking it.
oh and there's an indication on the map that the castle is part of no bonus but the castle itself is a bonus so it might be kinda confusing.
It's really just to indicate that there is no regional bonus for holding the fort and the conquistador. I can certainly remove that wording if others feel the same way.