[Septimius Severus]

Hoplo, I'm putting you on Chris' team unless you prefer to go elsewhere, since he asked for you. Gandalf has agreed to setup the AIs for us. Hopefully he'll also agree to place the teams and nations into their starting locations as well.

Yes, I didn't realize the complication that multiple teams brings (versus just 2 teams) to a game. Of course this is all hypothetical and we may never have a problem but it is good to be prepared.

You do propose an interesting solution albeit one that strikes me straight off as a bit difficult for me to follow and I'm not quite sure how that would ensure team captains have an incentive to keep most of their members alive. But I'm probably a bit tired right now.

That is one issue, the other one I was worrying about is handling individual team concessions not in terms of victory but rather game-wise. In other words what to do with them after they concede and other teams are still viable. However, it seems that this can be handled via numerous #allies command in the .map file so that if any nation or team should need to be set AI (should they resign) they'll ally themselves against other human teams/nation.

Yeah, sure, a team or teams should be able to concede whenever they feel they've reached the point of no return as it were. I am sure we will all do our best to honor the good player pledge though and fight till the last minute.