Shurrock - MA Team-based PBEM game (Recruiting)

[Alneyan]

I would like to host another team-based game, much like in the spirit of my Dom 2 Entwined Destinies. The recipe is simple: take several teams of two players (even numbers are best) and make them duke it out. In Entwined Destinies, this led to a pretty interesting game with a lot of warring and a creative nation synergy on the part of the winners (namely YellowCactus and CUnknown, as Mictlan and Ulm).

I expect to run the game through Llamaserver, as Llamabeast has kindly accepted to let me be as lazy as humanly possible. I will not take part in the game (for the players in Entwined Destinies, I will also not succomb to the temptation of subbing for players who went AWOL. It was fun alright, and it had little impact on the game, but itjust doesn't hold water when it comes down to hosting policy).

So, if you would be interested in playing in that sort of game, feel free to join in, even if you don't have a teammate yet. A few points about the settings:

For this kind of game, a warparound map with hand-picked starting points seems to work best, so that all teams are no more than a few provinces away from all other teams, and all capitals are evenly spread out. Suggestions for the actual map would be appreciated.

Assignment for the nations will be carried out on a team basis. Each team will pick one nation in order, and the order will be reversed for the other nation. The players should discuss which nations they would like beforehand, though, so that the nation assignment doesn't take too long.

In Entwined Destinies, graphs were off but some information was provided every five turns in a midly obsfucated form. I don't think this process hid much information, but the idea of only getting graphs every few turns could be interesting.