http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=5859

Hopscotch is a variant on the Earth map where territories don't connect to their neighbors. Instead, they connect to the territories their neighbors touch. This map can really mess with your mind!

Haha this is going to be more fun than mirror earth :) Thanks for another great map Fizzer!

Holy crap!

Combined with Fog, this setting can be really hard because two people could be going for the same spot without knowing it.

The strategy required for such a map makes my head hurt...

@Ruthless:
How's that different from any other map...?

@Richard:
Sure, but that's not gonna stop me from playing it a few times (once I have time that is... :( ).

@Fizzer:
If I'm not mistaken, it's impossible to get a first turn bonus (unless you get two territories close together). Can I ask if that's intentional or just a (nice?) coincidence?

No major bonus changes? I imagine the difficulty of holding some areas changes drastically with the hopscotch (Antarctica, India, Aussie, US)

First: great idea and cool map.
Second: Several missing connections.
Third (depending on 2nd): The rule says that territories connect to territories their neighbors. So (only in Algeria) there are several missing connections:
- Lybia to Niger
- Niger to Mali
- Mali to Mauritania

Metal, I think you misunderstand as none of those are missed connections.

The hopscotch nature of it means that you can only attack your neighbor's neighbors. Thus, only territories once removed can be attacked while neighboring territories cannot.

For instance, imagine you are in Mexico and want to take Baja. In the normal game, you just attack there but since its a neighbor, that is not possible here. Instead you would need to attack either Great Basin or Rocky Mountains (neighbors of neighboring Southwest) and from there you could move into Baja. Likewise for Cuba... instead of attack directly you would have to go from Mexico to Gulf Coast and then down to Cuba.

It adds an entirely different level of strategy to the game and makes bonus completion much harder to achieve. It almost reminds me of trying to play chess solely with knights and their odd attack route.

Wow! I just joined this game and completed the first three levels of the single player. Never in my life have I played on a map as large as Earth. I thought it was very challenging to take over that map as the AIs were brutal. I can't even begin to imagine how difficult it would be to play on Hopscotch. I'll check that map out as soon as I add a profile picture, add a biography, and take a look at the site's Wiki.

Now, Fizzer, let me just say that you did an amazing job with this game. I saw this game on Kongregate a few hours ago and easily beat the first two levels. I was intimidated by the third level due to the sze of the map and decided just to make an account and finish off the third level here (which I did).

With that, I'm gonna check out Hopscotch. I love the concept! Keep up the good work, Fizzer! Sorry about getting a little off-topic there :)

Soron, if you think that map is big you are in for a BIG surprise when you play the next challenge (Europe)

Or just check out this monstrosity:
http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=1747

@RvW - It's a little different. The opponent can reach into a bonus that's much farther away than just being adjacent to the bonus. For instance, say you have the India Bonus. Someone could attack into it from several more spots than before. You also have the tendency to run into other opponents easier because everyone is trying to get to their bonus a different way.

This of course is coming from experience of playing the settings in a large FFA game

Holy... I saw the Europe Challenge map, and frankly, the idea of a team battle shocked me more than the map itself. I still have yet to read the Wiki. But over 3100 territories! I am literally afraid of that map!

Well, so I don't look like a troll, I'll put something related into this post. It would be beyond awesome if this idea was incorporated into Europe or United States Big!

perhaps if it becomes popular enough, fizzer could create a setting which would allow it to be done on any map, as opposed to being forced to re-work maps for it to work..

I think a mirror earth hopscotch hybrid is in order.

Knoebber that.. would be incredible fun and mind numbing..

Mirror version where everything is attached to the territories adjacent to it's mirror? Sounds fun.

Tip:
Select an important territory (such as an enemy's on your border), then click the "More Info" link in the menu on the left. This will give a nice overview of which territories "border" on the selected one *and* (if you're in deployment phase), you can just click territories in the territory info window to deploy extra armies there! :)

Okay, the one that first finds out what´s the least amount of turns you´ll need to complete the South America bonus gets a cookie. Starting with only one territory somewhere inside South America.

Moros, I think the answer is 8 attacks. To do this, you have to either start or end on Brazil and you have to leave SA once.

Argentina - Venezuela - Bolivia - Colombia - Paraguay - Peru - Uruguay - Siple (Ant) - Brazil