Some good and balanceed map?

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Beorne:
Thank you!
Someone has tried the smaller maps and can tell me about??

We are 4 players and I don'want computer controlled. They can seriously advantage or disvantage players.

For the smaller maps - Aran might be okay with 4 players, if you give a 'mulligan' option, where someone can on the 2nd turn call mulligan and get a restart. The reason for this is mainly that Aran, for some reason, has never been set up decently to where people can't have the worst of the possible starting provinces. (Might someone from Illwinter be listening?) Starting on the tips of the peninsulas, in particular, often dooms a player if the 2 land neighbors they can attack are things like knights or amazons.

Urgaea and Cirlani are both quite a bit better - somewhat ... circular, so there aren't as many dead end provinces - some starting positions are better than others, especially depending on where the others start, but not dead-in-the-water bad.

I haven't had a chance to look too close at a couple of the other, new, small maps on Illwinter, but they might be okay as well.

Good luck!