the Chandrea2 map
I like the Chandrea2 map. It is okay to look at, although not as pretty as the Cradle of Dominion map. It is also small enough and densely connected enough to be suitable for the 2-v-2 format.
It could stand some improvement, though, on "intuitive province connections".
In particular the various kinds of "lines" -- province boundaries, roads, rivers, shipping lanes prevent me from easily seeing the relations between provinces. And in general it isn't intuitive to me which provinces connect to which other ones, and in fact my biggest blunder of the game was perhaps partially due to my not thinking of the fact that province 81 connected directly to province 71. (Although I was certainly aware of that fact and had in fact moved a scout from 81 to 71 earlier in the same move!)
Another example question is why Altdorf City connects to Wasser Marsh but not to Bruh Rogg or Oxmoor.
For comparison, when I earlier played a game on the Cradle of Dominion map, I played the entire game with the "province connector arrows" turned off, except for the occasional double-check. In Cradle of Dominion, once you have looked at the province connect arrows a couple of times, you can confidently remember most of the connections, because those provinces "look" like they should be connected when looking at the map.
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