Thank you for the praise, Armagein.
However, I must disagree with you about the lack of land bridge being a problem for Vanheim, as it drastically limits their available strategies (because the dwarven smiths cannot cross oceans without the sea provinces around the islands being conquered first and then rings of water breathing. Given the already crappy province sizes in the islands which severely limit gold income (very important for Vanheim due to expensive units), and one huge obstacle province right in the middle of the Moonshaes, it made Vanheim very weak. Not a problemin SP, but it sucks arse in MP, as I had cause to find out in one game. I trailed behind everyone right from the get-go in almost every category, and the first time I got attacked, it was game over for me. Not immediately, I gave back pretty good at first, but I was killed by attrition and lack of money. The map was intended also for MP, and the bad design in that part of the map made Vanheim virtually unplayable. That has now been fixed, along with some other more minor things (such as adding land access to all the islands and hardcoding poptypes for inland seas so that troops from any province can be made useful somewhere on the map).
As for new projects, I do not have any new huge map projects underway. The reason is that there are no suitable ready graphics available to base a map on that I would actually get passionate enough about to do, I have serious time constraints due to my studies and I have several other interests on my free time (several other things that related to Dom2 alone, and then everything else on top of that). But if something comes up that catches my fancy, I might do a new map.
Edi