An interesting and I'd say good take on the American Revolution. Framing a war is technically about its component battles, so this map's concept is dead-on.
Graphics - All of your text in the same font as "The American Revolution", particularly the big "1776!" looks very jagged. Have some smoother anti-aliasing on it to assist.
- The entire continent seems to be floating off in space, or part of some alien's holographic display. I know this is preliminary, but the addition of Canada (as a greyed-out non-playing area) and an ocean would be lovely.
- The river is okay, but could use some improving in overall color. The forests...please improve them ASAP, they look like a mutated fungus taking over the Southeast.
- With the addition of Canada and such, boxing out or otherwise setting apart the title section will be needed. You'll figure out something, I'm sure.
- Florida gets abruptly cut off as the legend approaches. It's like some alien monolith took part of the Sunshine State out as it landed. Complete the landmass and let it fall "under" the legend using some outer glow on the bonus legend.
- The militiamen look good, but they don't seem to fit with the other icons on the map. It might be because they "pop" out of the map more than the ships and the Indian symbols, so addition of that effect (again assisted by some frigging deep blue sea) would likely fix that.
- The borders in the left part of the map are way too straight. I know the entire map's lines are reasonably straight, but the ones in the west look like they were arbitrarily decided with a 1-second stroke with the Line Tool. Add in some waviness and curves.
Gameplay- While the legend is understandable, it seems haphazard in its placement. Rules of different types are all present in the same setup, making it difficult to remember it all after a few glances. Do some grouping and/or splitting on the legend to fix this.
- The battlefields are too choke-tastic. Each has only one entrance and exit point, allowing people to effectively defend multiple battlefields with single territories. The worst is the two battlefields in Massachusetts. With a little work, a person could hold down a +4 with only one territory. Add in more commanders who can be exited from, and consider making a battlefield enterable from the state it is in, and each adjacent state (for instance, Trenton could be attacked from Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania).
- The states are too close to their forms circa Civil War. Most of the western portions of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina were still held by the Indians at the time of the Revolutionary War. Take some inspiration from the other American Revolution map and get the colonies looking like the colonies. Moving the impassables might be a necessity as a result.
- Other than the Indian Nations (one of which is in the middle of the colonies), there is absolutely zero advantage to a Western start. Perhaps change the Indian bonus to +1 for 2, +2 for 3, and have some incentive for having the West in addition.
- The de Galvez lacks a bonus entirely, and I don't see a need to have it on the map, as it's just one more dead-end.
- The bonus legend is okay, but separating out the Battlefields from the Other Stuff would be good. You've got the bottom of the map to play with there, so use it.
- The battlefield bonuses seem arbitrary (why does Yorktown get +3 when it has the same number of territories as Bunker Hill?), but this might be fixed by going with some edits to the Battlefield rules (see above). The other bonuses look completely spot-on, though.
- I know you're using a motley assortment of army numbers, but the neutral-colored ones confuse me, as I doubt you mean for those to start neutral.
- Some representation of the actual battlefield lines (similar to your first draft, but a little nicer) would be a good way to illustrate the Battlefield aspect, as well as reinforce the attack rules.
- The use of Battle site is confusing. When I first read it, I thought "oh, so you can attack Saratoga the territory". Then I kept reading and realized Battle Site meant the State where it happened in. A different term than Site ("battle's state", perhaps) will likely be needed.
I won on the third objective: lots of feedback. Why? This map got
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