Warzone

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Review by Nathan

on 4/3/2015.

Holy cow! This map is insanely awesome. The detail is exquisite, the scope is amazing and the sheer complexity is beyond belief. Unlike some of the maps I've seen with colonies in offset locations, these actually work because of the many connections to them.

You can see from this map why it was called the Thirty Years War - it takes about that long to conquer the whole thing. I mean that in a good way. If you love huge maps, this one will not disappoint.

My only real criticism is that there are a few missing connections. Mainly they are just here and there (one in Central Morocco, iirc). But two major broken connections stand out: Lefkosa (Cyprus) to Anamur (Turkey) and Cide (Turkey) to Baliklava (Crimean). These are huge problems because they isolate the Anatolian peninsula and greatly impede movement.

23 out of 26 people found this review helpful.

Review by [ESP] Pablo García on 3/31/2015.

Awesome map, thank you :)

By the way, Canary islands should be added in the Crown of Castille, and therefore also in the Spanish Habsburg Dominions and in the Spanish Empire.

25 out of 31 people found this review helpful.

Review by Napoléon Bonaparte on 4/2/2015.

Fantastic new map, very large for many players, and will make for very interesting slot games. Inclusion of colonial possessions, Brazil, Asia, Caribbean and North America make the game alot more interesting especially for diplomacy. The number of factions and the way the bonuses are created seem to be very well done, overall a great looking, and an excellent new large-scale map.

15 out of 18 people found this review helpful.

Review by [16] b3rz3rk3r on 6/8/2015.

Found some missing links
Tortola - Anagana (in English antilles)
Leon - Ponferrada (in north spain, below principality of asturias

12 out of 12 people found this review helpful.

Review by

Malteus [GER]

on 4/16/2015.

I admire the work you put in this map! A great masterpiece!

The white link from Balikava (Crimea) to Cide (Anatolia) does not work.

9 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

Review by

Zephyrum on 1/10/2016.

I did one big post about the broken connections I could find by playing and searching the comment section... Well, I missed quite a few, and there are two more I could find after a couple more games.

Einbeck-Nienburg (General vicinity of Hannover, northern HRE)
Zsolna-Beszterce (Near Krakow, a little bit to the south of Silesia, in Royal Hungary)

#FixItOllie!

8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

Review by

Ysayell1 on 4/23/2015.

Sprawling, highly detailed map. Yes it's cluttered, but it still plays pretty darn well. I'm not sure about the aesthetics of some of the boxing off to the left. The connection of the sea lanes makes much of the boxing entirely unnecessary and often confusing. The effort is extraordinary and the customization is quite nice. Don't expect a quick game.

6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

Review by Gallien on 12/15/2015.

This map is almost god-like! But there is still room for making it better. Especially concerning dutch colonies.

It is sad that the Netherlands and Sweden have to be cut off from their north American colonies. I think at least a connection to some Netherlands' colonies should be made. (Sweden was not a major power in the region so I can accept it not having a route to its american colonies.)
Another case of the Netherlands being a bit neglected is the fact that there is no St.Maarten colony (which was found during the 30 years war). That was a region with a heavy dutch presence that was used as a connection link between their north and south american colonies.

Missing links:
1. Wargren is connected to Ain Deheb, but the map shows it is connected with a province right next to Ain Deheb - to Tahert.
2. Setat isn't connected to Safi on the Atlantic coast of Morocco.

All in all it is my favourite Early Modern period map! That is definetly 5 stars!

5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

Review by Hard Man on 4/10/2015.

Absolutely incredible. Great Job!

5 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

Review by

bloomis

on 6/25/2015.

Amazing gigantic map. Really excellent.

Noticed a couple of bugs. The following territories should connect, but don't:
Safi - Settat
Laoag - Caotang
Fredrikstad - Tonsberg
Gorki - Galichskoye

And these ones do connect, but shouldn't: Lolland - Bornholm

And it looks like Wargren connects to Ain Deheb, not Tahert.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Review by

Marck VI on 6/21/2015.

Absolutely awesome, this map may be quite hard to play in short times, and yes, it is only playable with slots and many players, and yes, can be frutrating creating a game on this map and praying for get enoght players, but a single good game in it worth all the troubles.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Review by [WL] Habsburg Australia!! on 9/1/2015.

Cool map, great for historical era's around 1600-1800

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Review by Willow

on 10/25/2015.

Bassein starting region is completely overpowered... 220 income after 8 turns is too much...

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Review by Gaia on 4/10/2016.

This is one of my favorite maps. It is especially great for diplos and larger games with 20 people. 5 out of 5 would play again.

1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.

Review by A_B3 on 10/6/2017.

Huge and time consuming. Some of the regional bonuses are a little imbalanced but very playable nonetheless. High marks for the tremendous effort it took to create this map.

1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.

Review by bigmactupac on 11/10/2019.

too long

1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.

Review by Dutch Desire

on 7/8/2020.

Strange how you can go directly from Brazil (Natal) to East India (Pulicat), what lies 12.900 km apart (over 2 times the ray of the Earth!), but to go from Udupi to Bhatkal, what has only 80 km between them, the shortest route has 9 territories between them, passing Taiwan (Governorate of Formosa) along the way...

But overall this is one of the best diplomacy maps. 5/5 :)

1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.

Review by darkwolfgr on 4/10/2016.