[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

I don't recall voting for nations. I recall voting for names.
(ie, sanguinarium which is what I voted for). I think the problem is not the name, but rather the implimentation.

The two polls that were conducted were for team name and associated theme (Blood, Death, Astral, Nature, animal nations, giant nations, nations with flying units, etc.), not necessarily specific nations.

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

I am still not opposed to the idea of using the teams as you outlined them. (with the exception of ashdod, which I think is simply to broke to live in MP-teams). However, I think you will need some method to handicap.

I haven't decided to go with pre-set nations for each team. What I provided in the previous post was a hypothetical matchup. All I've done (in the preview file) and all I will do most likely is to provide each team with a list of recommended nations and pretenders that most fit the theme. Thus, I've provided the basis of what each team's ranked list might look like, but the order and priority is up to each team. One may meet the theme by nation or pretender choice. I would like players to do both, but at this point, I am not forcing any team who doesn't want to play along to do both.

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Suggestions: vast amounts of forest... Ie.. 80%? Extra forts for the arborealists... a Point bid system - where high bidders choose the team - and then lose the number of points bid from pretender construction.

For example, as constitued I would EASILY bid 120 points to play the ashdod team.

As always I appreciate suggestions and comments and may incorporate them or not. The map has already been created, as have the starting locations, a preview of which was already published on the thread. It's in there among the thousand other posts.