Pangean is a very nice map but with no chokepoints I think it would be a very dispersive game...
Any era works for me really

As we started talking about nations, I (surely too innocently and naively

) hope ppl will choose their nations more because they feel the mood of them (thus providing better entertainment for everybody with inspired reports and stories) than to just pwn the game - not that it would be bad, stories of bloody triumphs are always epic, but still...
