MR & SP

[Gandalf Parker]

Play on larger maps also. It makes for a different game.
The www.Dom2Minions.com site has maps that are all the way up to the maximum size the game will allow. They are randomly generated and not as pretty as handmade. But they can have interesting situations caused by placement of water and uncrossable borders. Plus they are re-generated every day.

[magnate]

Hmmm. Those of you who play SP on large maps, do you play to the death? I find that to-the-death games on maps like Brittain and Aran (and even the Desert Eye) can be quite fun, because it's not *too* boring for the last mopping up bit. But when I play on Orania I have to choose a victory condition because I can't bear the tedium of wiping out the last 20 provinces when I already control 220+ .... so large maps are not really my thing, until more interesting VCs are possible. I really don't like the VP provinces, so I tend to choose a dominion VC, which is quite hard to judge - often the game ends way too early, or it ends up being to the death if set too high.

CC

[Endoperez]

I usually use victory points. Take few enemies, give every capital a vp, add enough single-vp provinces to double or triple the number of vp's (so you don't know whether that vp is a capital or just a vp and so that there are enough vp's on land), and put the requirement to 50% - 70% of the total vp's. That means I have to conquer most of the map, but also that I can end the game quite fast if I decide I really want to.