Liverpool City Centre

I love - I absolutely adore - huge maps. I was incredibly excited to see this map come out. It is beautiful, it is massive, it has a variety of connections and incredible detail.

Unfortunately, it is also completely unplayable in a standard game. I estimate about 70-80% of the territories have no bonuses associated with them. Other than the rail connections, there is no good way to bypass the worthless zones, so you basically have to go through them and - here's the rub - defend them. But because bonuses are so few and far between, it's impossible to maintain anything approaching reasonable control of one's territories. It's just a giant, amorphous melee that goes nowhere.

I'm going to try it again playing with plus-armies-per-territories toggled on. I don't see any other way to make this map practical. I will revisit my rating then.

EDIT 6/5/15

Much better playing this way! There are still quite a few missing connections, but some distributions will greatly improve this map.

A huge map with an unusual concept.
Very interesting.

Very detailed. A must for all beatles fans. (Where do I find strawberry fields?)

Some strange or broken links, but ok, nobody is perfect.

Brilliant idea. If you play this a couple of times, you can probably find your way around Liverpool with ease (won't take any of the buses in a hurry though). The way the bonuses are distributed makes this quite a different strategic challenge - for those of you who know the game Go, this is the way to go: try to enfence larger areas without wasting troops in the inside. Against 3 AIs, this made for a 26 turn game, but it did take forever. Map, idea and execution are so fantastic, I won't even make any Scouse jokes :)

Nice and creative map which introduces a completely new gameplay. I played it once in a 19 Player FFA game at light fog. However if you don't play a local deployment, you should really turn on the "one extra army per territory" setting to make the vast amount of blocks that are not covered by a bonus at least a little bit more interesting. Nonetheless, really nice work!

This is my favourite local deployment map. There are lots of strategic possibilities and the design of the territories and bonuses is expertly handled.

The connections are not clear enough, it's a bit painstaking to set attack orders. Really nice map though, in terms of quality. Just a little too hard to play on :(

very good.
it feels like fighting in a city.
well made. a lot of work, for sure.

good for long games.

Brilliant Map. One of the Best.

Enjoyed this map a lot. Thanks

Neatest one I've played.

too big and complex

HUGE map, lots of fun.

great setting

Amazing detail, but a bit small for phone play

nice

My favorite LD map. All games I played on was always interresting.

The map has potential, but too many useless territories, unbalanced bonuses, and vague connections.

it's too much confusional

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