[geoschmo]

Originally posted by spoon:
Only thing I wonder about is if Great Britain would make a better start point than Western Europe, in that it puts more pressure on the North American player,

Yes, I almost put a starting point in Great Britain. To be totally honest the placements weren't 100% based on game balance issues. I picked Western Europe over Great Britain cause I didn't want anyone to think I was being to Anglo-centric.

I think the Japanese player would be able to threaten the North American player fairly quickly. He's actually closer to Alaska. But I think maybe the Japanese and Chinese players are too close together. Maybe I should move the Japanese starting position to Kamchatka? It's not any farther apart, but the Kamchatkan player would have more options from the start and less chance of getting bottled up.

So if I move the Japanese player to Kamchatka and the Western European player to Great Britain, would that about do it? Or does anyone have any other map suggestions.

I intentionally kept it to 8 starting positions. I think that's probably about the limit for a map this size, and that's the limit of players for the board game. If people want a bigger game they should use a bigger map I think.

Geoschmo