[Edi]

Checked the map.

48 Terek
192 Phelos

That's the two provinces I managed to miss out of a total of 210. Terek couldn't really be changed to a nostart province because there are so few in that area of the map already and it's a fairly large section (SW). There's a couple of others in the westernmeost forest that are iffy, they're labeled as nostarts but one should be a starting eligible one just to get some more breathing space on the map.

Phelos can be changed to nostart, there are enough start locations around it in the NW that it won't interfere.

The Cradle map was never meant o be played with all the nations all at once. The mapmaker, Jason Lutes, specified that it was meant for games with 8 to 10 players, with 10 being the upper limit where the map still works.

So anyone who actually puts his own nation and 16 AIs on Cradle gets exactly what they deserve.

Edi