The Mystic Eyelands

Fabulous map - not only is it incredibly visually interesting, I like how you have incorporated a different style of representing your superbonuses. Many long peninsulas (peninsulae?) end in dead ends, meaning you have to be very careful about how many armies you send to conquer them lest you shortchange your capabilities elsewhere.

One of the best things I can say about Nic's maps is that just as I start to congratulate myself on a solid start 10-12 turns in, another player shows up out of nowhere and forces me to scramble on defense. This happens time and again on his maps and reveals solid balance and skill in their crafting.

Nice names and a pretty nice layout. It is a bit narrow in most places so it is harder to get behind the enemy and make a comeback, it was a nice map to play on though most of the game I always had too many armies.

Great map for 3v3 - 6v6. Interesting strategic options and good mix of bottlenecks and open battlefields. I've played this map extensively and as yet I can't find any particular starting position which gives you any major advantage so it leads to good balanced gameplay.

This is becoming one of my favorite maps. Great for team play!

Love this map. It's not that big but it kept a 6v6 going long enough to keep it very interesting.

nice map

Gorgeous map

fun map

Loved it!

great

I did like the old distribution system more. It was something special: Less starting countries, more distance, i.e. faster growing in the beginning, i.e. stronger armies on both sides, more difficult to play. The new distribution now makes it to a map like thousands of other maps, nothing special anymore, rather mundane. Sorry, two points less rating. Please, if possible, return to the old distributing.

Nice

This map, by all standards is amazing, for single player up to many players. This map by all counts ranks as one of my favorites, for its well craftedness, and the pure beauty eminent in this. This map truly is a work of art.
The only logical argument I could garner on this map is that the striations and fjords would suggest that there is a larger landmass to the Northwest. And that this entire place should be covered in ice. Remember, the fjords go away from the ice, so logically there are two major ice caps, one on an unidentified landmass to the North, and an other on the Central Kingdoms and Crescent.
This beautiful map should be added to the list of featured maps, even if inaccurate glaciation patterns stand as an obstacle. It must have taken a while to get it taken out from under the "ice" and show its beauty to the surface again, for players to admire for a short eternity.

Classy move to trash other players maps. Here is 1 star.

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One ugly map, yet a very beautiful piece of artwork.

Very good-looking map, well laid-out and designed, with good bonus distributions and clear lines. Gameplay itself suffers somewhat from the narrowness of the continents, which leads to very linear game play. By move 20 or so, I was putting 50-60 armies against 30 enemy armies at two or three places, click, attack, repeat and rinse. The mopping-up operation against the remaining AI armies took as many moves as it took to establish unbeatable dominance - that's a bit too long to bother to finish up a map. Sorry if this sounds too harsh: I am a great fan of the map maker who made many fiendish maps before which I hugely enjoyed.