Top Cities in 30 Years War Map

Top Eastern cities after 5 turns:
Hanover 70
Munich 64
Amsterdam 57
Rottweil 54
Zurich 49
Pozsony 47
Bordeaux 47
Genoa 46
Rotterdam 43
Riga 43
Vilnius 42
Stockholm 41
Toulouse 41
Barcelona 41
Pskov 40

Top Western cities after 5 turns:
Fort St George 119
Bassein 111
Bombay 100
Goa 92
Diu 82
Daman 81

Pilgrims Progress Map

Pilgrim's Progress

I checked and found no existing maps with Pilgrim in the name.

This map looks to provide the best visual synopsis of the book:

http://everystockphoto.s3.amazonaws.com/everystockphoto_372587_o.jpg

Design topics:

Graphics - maps are very limited in their ability to show images, so we'll need stylized
                  representations. I like the way Huruey's Castle handles this.

Overall theme & subthemes

Misc settings

Narrative Details

Map connectivity, major minor regions
      the challenge is that the story progresses linearly with some detours, and some alternative paths,         but it is not naturally interconnected. A good map needs high connectivity, but we don't want to
      make absurd connections, such as going from the Celestial City to the City of Destruction. We
      may want to insert some shortcut connections like in Huruey's Castle. I like the layout of the map

rather than the linear one above or the spiral

So what I am thinking is take the concept of the first map shown, with the three panes, and invert the middle pane. Then the general flow will be like the classroom map above (with the blue border). Then  we could identify the major map regions as superbonuses, and work on fleshing each of them out. Possibilities I see for these superbonuses are 1) City of Destruction, 2) Slough of Despond 3) Mount Calvary, 4) Valley of Humiliation, 5) Hill of Difficulty, 6) Valley of the Shadow of Death, 7) Vanity Fair, 8)Pleasant Meadow, 9) Delectable Mountains, 10) Country of Conceit, 11) Enchanted Ground, 12) Celestial City

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NYC picks

Game 1	Max		Alb			Tim		Rick
	Van Buren	7	Batavia	10		Van Buren	7	Rockland	7
	Hempstead	4 NY	Sand Lake	(12)		Hartland	7	Hopkinton	6
	Kent	7	Rockland	7		Truxton	(7)	Ohio	7
	Lancaster	8	Ithaca	(12)		Le Roy	(8)	Peru	8
	Wheatland	-8	Adams	(11)				Otego	8
	*taken		W Bloomfield	(11)		if no conflicts		Lincoln	10
		5		5		5	5	Van Buren	7
		12		5		12	18
		19		15		19	18
		26		27		34	32
		38		27		56	44
Game 2	Hartland	7	Lancaster	8
	Batavia	10	Colden	11
	Peru	8	Adams	(11)
	Hempstead	4 NY	Arietta	(12)
	De Witt	(8)	Peru	8
			Greenwood	8
			Rockland	7
		5		5		5	5
		12		5		12	18
		12		13		19	18
		22		24		34	32
Game 3	Hartland	7	N Hudson	(10)
	Rockland	7	Clayton	(8)
	Carmel	(7)	Santa Clara	10
	Ramapo	(7)	Altona	(10)
	Clarkstown	(7)	Colton	6
	Stony Pot	(7)
	Orangetown	(7)
		5		5		5	5
		12		5		12	18
		19		13		19	18
		19		13		34	32
		27		13		56	44
Game 4	Van Buren	7	Le Roy	(8)
	Callicoon	7	Batavia	10
	Liberty	7	Clayton	(8)
			Peru	8
			Colton	6
		5		5		5	5
		12		5		12	18
		12		13		19	18
		19		23		34	32
		26		34		56	44
Game 5	Rockland	7	Colton	6
	Hartland	7	De Witt	(8)
	Kent	7	Machias	(11)
	Lancaster	8	Lansing	(12)
			Rotterdam	(8)
	surrendered
Game 6	Otego	8	Kent	7
	Hartland	7	Pittstown	(10)
	Hopkinton	6	Otego	8
			Hinsdale	8
		5		5		5	5
		12		5		12	18
		20		12		19	18
		20		22		34	32
		28		22		56	44
		53		22
Game 7	Hartland	7	Rockland	7
	Hopkinton	6	Kent	7
	N Hudson	(10)	Adams	(11)
			Greenwich	(12)
		5		5		5	5
		12		12		12	18
		22		19		19	18
		22		19		34	32
		30		31		56	44
		30		45

Imperium Romanum

This a a map of the city connectivity. A few of the links go nowhere, indicating they go to one of the four city expanded areas (Lutetia, Carthago, Byzantium, Rome). The cities are worth 1 point each and this seems the best way to grow quickly at first. This game has altered settings - init 4 men in each region, luck and attack probs 57%, defend 76%, and multiattack. I've studied the extremes of moving only one step and accumulating men until a critical mass, and then going all out versus going all out each turn (until you drop below 8 men). The latter is far better. There are two picks. I also studied the difference between developing one pick only versus both simultaneously, and the latter works as well as the former. The presence of a 42-man wasteland will interrupt the traversing of the connected cities, which is a big deal. Personally I prefer to turn this off. So then with a team of two people, one approach that seems good to me is one to pick two spots for the east and the other two picks in the west. For example, west - 1) Deva (Liverpool), and 2) Leptis Magna (central north Africa), and east 1) Tanais (northeast-most city at upper right Black Sea) and 2) Arae Philaenorum (just east of Leptis Magna). Since the initial distribution excludes the cities, the actual picks would have to be a territory adjacent to the desired spot. Then once we have advanced sufficiently taking the harbor cities, we start fleshing out the countryside. Any opponent that tries to take a bonus in another way will fail miserably to grow because of the initial 4's. I'm not sure of the merits of the 4 expanded cities. I doubt starting in them is desirable, but growing into them might be worthwhile. The total bonuses for them are 7, 7, 7, 25, respectively. Also, the funny yellow shield bonuses shown on the left seem  to have little value - all but the first 3 are a bonus of 1 for a huge area.

Optimal Bonuses For Afro-Eurasia Gargantuan map

Bonus	Terr	Bonus	Size	Ratio
Republic of Tajikistan	Obigarm	4	4	1.00
Lviv	Ternopil	5	6	0.83
Almaty	Saryozek	5	6	0.83
Central Turkmenistan	Darvaza	5	6	0.83
Southern Iraq	Diwaniyah	5	6	0.83
Shan	Mong Yang	5	6	0.83
Guangzi Zhuang	Nanning	5	6	0.83
Jiangxi	Fuzhou	5	6	0.83
Chongqing	Fengdu	5	6	0.83
Haixi	Tanggemuzhen	5	6	0.83
Northwestern Algeria	Tiaret	5	6	0.83
Sabha	Germa	5	6	0.83
Al Wahat	Jakharad	5	6	0.83
Murzuq	Qatrun	5	6	0.83
Gao	Gao	5	6	0.83
Kasai-Occidental	Lubefa	5	6	0.83
Maniema	Moga	5	6	0.83
Oslo	Telemark	4	5	0.80
Sor-Trondelag	Oppland	4	5	0.80
East Germany	Madgeburg	4	5	0.80
Greater Poland	Wielkopolski	4	5	0.80
Southern Germany	Munich	4	5	0.80
Kiev	Uman	4	5	0.80
Eastern Belarus	Barysaw	4	5	0.80
Kirov	Kirov	4	5	0.80
Perm	Solikamsk	4	5	0.80
Sverdlovsk	Lesnoy	4	5	0.80
Bashkortosan	Ufa	4	5	0.80
Chelyabinsk	Korkino	4	5	0.80
Kostanay	Kushmurun	4	5	0.80
Volgograd	Volgograd	4	5	0.80
West Kazakhstan	Zhanaqala	4	5	0.80
Kalmykia	Astrakhan	4	5	0.80
Akmola	Petropavl	4	5	0.80
Altai	Barnaul	4	5	0.80
Yili Kazakh	Altay	4	5	0.80
Turpan	Turpan	4	5	0.80
West Turkmenistan	Kaplankyr	4	5	0.80
Eastern Turkmenistan	Turkmenabat	4	5	0.80
Ankara	Sinop	4	5	0.80
Kerman	Haji Abad	4	5	0.80
Sistan ana Baluchestan	Saravan	4	5	0.80
Nimruz	Farah	4	5	0.80
Southern Afghanistan	Qalat-e Gilzay	4	5	0.80
Northern Balochistan	Sibi	4	5	0.80
Al Batinah	Muscat	4	5	0.80
Gujarat	Rajkot	4	5	0.80
Odisha	Brahmapur	4	5	0.80
West Bengal	Asansol	4	5	0.80
Guizhou	Guiyang	4	5	0.80
Fujian	Fuzhou	4	5	0.80
Henan	Shangqui	4	5	0.80
Republic of Korea	Daegu	4	5	0.80
Hinggan League	Jarud	4	5	0.80
Hulunbuir	Genhe	4	5	0.80
Magadan	Taskan	4	5	0.80
Lapland	Savukoski	4	5	0.80
East Kalimantan	Kalimantan	4	5	0.80
Southern Indonesia	Bima	4	5	0.80
Northern Morocco	Fes	4	5	0.80
Zawiya	Alzintan	4	5	0.80
Ennedi-Quest	Ounianga Kebir	4	5	0.80
Northern Agadez	Aney	4	5	0.80
Southern Agadez	Tchirozerene	4	5	0.80
Blida	Moghuel	4	5	0.80
Tindouf	Tabalbala	4	5	0.80
Tiris Zemmour	Bir Moghrein	4	5	0.80
Hodh Ech Chargui	Bassikounou	4	5	0.80
Kidal	Boughessa	4	5	0.80
Eastern Burkina Faso	Kokou	4	5	0.80
Northern Ivory Coast	Korhogo	4	5	0.80
Southern Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	4	5	0.80
Zinder	Ntilli	4	5	0.80
Kanem	Eri	4	5	0.80
Borno	Ngamdu	4	5	0.80
Niger	Tsauni	4	5	0.80
Taraba	Pankshin	4	5	0.80
Lobaye	Bakala	4	5	0.80
Saada	Albuqa	4	5	0.80
Lahij	Aden	4	5	0.80
Beneshangul Gumuz	Dibate	4	5	0.80
Mudug	Hobya	4	5	0.80
Maputo	Maxixe	4	5	0.80
Central District	Sebina	4	5	0.80
Northern Zimbabwe	Harare	4	5	0.80
Kunene	Purros	4	5	0.80
Huambo	Huambo	4	5	0.80
Moxico	Poco	4	5	0.80
Lunda Norte	Cha	4	5	0.80
Northern Katanga	Kabongo	4	5	0.80
Southern Orientale	Opala	4	5	0.80
Western Balkans	Tirana	4	5	0.80
New Valley	Mut	5	7	0.71
Liaoning	Fuxin	4	6	0.67

Thirty Years War - City Bonuses

Constantinople	9
Venice	9
London	8
Paris	8
Vienna	8
Nashik	8
Algiers	7
Amsterdam	7
Belgrade	7
Cairo	7
Copenhagen	7
Genoa	7
Izmir	7
Moscow	7
Rotterdam	7
Stockholm	7
Toledo	7
Turin	7
Warsaw	7
Alexandria	6
Bristol	6
Fez	6
Florence	6
Gdansk	6
Hanover	6
Jerusalem	6
Marrakech	6
Munich	6
Prague	6
Pskov	6
Riga	6
Rome	6
Toulouse	6
Vilnius	6
York	6
Mysore	6
Madura	6
Aachen	5
Aleppo	5
Aleppo	5
Ankara	5
Berlin	5
Breslau	5
Bucharest	5
Candia	5
Cherasky	5
Dublin	5
Glasgow	5
Gothenburg	5
Kiev	5
Krakow	5
Lisbon	5
Lviv	5
Marseille	5
Minsk	5
Naples	5
Oslo	5
Sarajevo	5
Tripoli	5
Vladimir	5
Zurich	5
Kandy	5

West Asia Bonuses

	Size	Bonus	Ratio	4 picks
AnHui	14	19	1.36
Bangladesh	6	8	1.33	Tim 6
Bhutan	5	7	1.40		Rick 1,3
Cambodia	18	24	1.33
ChongQing	8	11	1.38
EastIndia	9	12	1.33
FuJian	8	11	1.38
GanSu	13	18	1.38
GuangDong	17	23	1.35
GuangXi	14	19	1.36
GuiZhou	9	12	1.33
HaiNan	4	6	1.50	Tim 1
HeBei	12	16	1.33
HeiLongJiang	13	18	1.38
HeNan	15	20	1.33
HongKong	3	4	1.33	Tim 5	Rick 6
HuBei	12	16	1.33
HuNan	14	19	1.36
InnerMongolia	12	16	1.33
Japan	11	15	1.36
JiangSu	12	16	1.33
JiangXi	7	10	1.43		Rick 2,4
JiLin	9	12	1.33
Laos	17	23	1.35
LiaoNing	12	16	1.33
Malasia	10	14	1.40
Mongolia	18	24	1.33
Myanmar	14	19	1.36
Nepal	14	19	1.36
NingXia	4	6	1.50	Tim 3
NorthIndia	7	10	1.43
NorthKorea	9	12	1.33
Phillippines	10	14	1.40
QingHai	9	12	1.33
ShanDong	16	22	1.38
ShangHai	3	4	1.33	Tim 4
ShanXi	11	15	1.36
SiChuan	21	28	1.33
SimXi	10	14	1.40
SouthKorea	9	12	1.33
Taiwan	13	18	1.38
Thailand	6	8	1.33	Tim 2
Tibet	7	10	1.43		Rick 5,7
Vietnam	8	11	1.38
XinJiang	13	18	1.38
YunNan	16	22	1.38
ZheJiang	11	15	1.36
			1.33	1.50
1 terr bonuses
Macau	1	1	1.00
Primorski	1	1	1.00
Singapore	1	1	1.00
TianJin	1	1	1.00
MegaBonuses
TheBuddha	111	15	0.14
TheCaoWei	124	15	0.12
TheGenghisKhan	77	8	0.10
TheHimalayas	42	7	0.17
TheIndoChina	72	11	0.15
TheManchuria	39	7	0.18
ThePacific	40	10	0.25
TheShuHan	71	8	0.11
TheSunWu	103	16	0.16
UnificationOfChina	344	42	0.12
UnificationOfKorea	18	3	0.17

Big Poland Picks

	#Terr	Bonus	Bon/Terr
Powiat Turecki	9	6	0.67
Powiat Moniecki	7	5	0.71
Powiat Sierpecki	7	5	0.71
Powiat Kościerski	8	5	0.63
Powiat Szczycieński	8	5	0.63
Powiat Złotowski	8	5	0.63
Powiat Pajęczański	8	5	0.63
Powiat Białobrzeski	6	4	0.67
Powiat Bolesławiecki	6	4	0.67
Powiat Choszczeński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Drawski	6	4	0.67
Powiat Giżycki	6	4	0.67
Powiat Głogowski	6	4	0.67
Powiat Golubsko-dobrzyński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Grajewski	6	4	0.67
Powiat Kętrzyński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Kolneński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Krotoszyński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Kwidzyński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Malborski	6	4	0.67
Powiat Piaseczyński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Poddębicki	6	4	0.67
Powiat Pyrzycki	6	4	0.67
Powiat Rycki	6	4	0.67
Powiat Rypiński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Świdwiński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Szczecinecki	6	4	0.67
Powiat Żniński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Nowodworski	6	4	0.67
Powiat Trzebnicki	6	4	0.67
Powiat Ostrowiecki	6	4	0.67
Powiat Proszowicki	6	4	0.67
Powiat Olkuski	6	4	0.67
Powiat Pszczyński	6	4	0.67
Powiat Brzozowski	6	4	0.67
Powiat Białogardzki	4	3	0.75
Powiat Jarociński	4	3	0.75
Powiat Międzychodzki	4	3	0.75
Powiat Nidzicki	4	3	0.75
Powiat Olecki	4	3	0.75
Powiat Piski	4	3	0.75
Powiat Policki	4	3	0.75
Powiat Sępoleński	4	3	0.75
Powiat Śremski	4	3	0.75
Powiat Zduńskowolski	4	3	0.75
Powiat Górowski	4	3	0.75
Powiat Lubiński	4	3	0.75
Powiat Kamiennogórski	4	3	0.75
Powiat Oławski	4	3	0.75
Powiat Kluczborski	4	3	0.75
Powiat Prudnicki	4	3	0.75
Powiat Głubczycki	4	3	0.75
Powiat Chodzieski	5	3	0.60
Powiat Chojnicki	5	3	0.60
Powiat ełcki	5	3	0.60
Powiat Grodziski	5	3	0.60
Powiat kościański	5	3	0.60
Powiat lidzbarski	5	3	0.60
Powiat mrągowski	5	3	0.60
Powiat Nakielski	5	3	0.60
Powiat Nowomiejski	5	3	0.60
Powiat Pruszkowski	5	3	0.60
Powiat sejneński	5	3	0.60
Powiat słubicki	5	3	0.60
Powiat strzelecko-drezdenecki	5	3	0.60
Powiat sztumski	5	3	0.60
Powiat wąbrzeski	5	3	0.60
Powiat wałecki	5	3	0.60
Powiat Zambrowski	5	3	0.60
Powiat zwoleński	5	3	0.60
Powiat żyrardowski	5	3	0.60
Powiat legionowski	5	3	0.60
Powiat rawicki	5	3	0.60
Powiat lwówecki	5	3	0.60
Powiat Średzki	5	3	0.60
Powiat strzeliński	5	3	0.60
Powiat zwoleński	5	3	0.60
Powiat starachowicki	5	3	0.60
Powiat pińczowski	5	3	0.60
Powiat kazimierski	5	3	0.60
Powiat ropczycko-sędziszowski	5	3	0.60
Powiat Chrzanowski	5	3	0.60
Powiat Krapkowicki	5	3	0.60
Powiat tatrzański	5	3	0.60
Powiat Leski	5	3	0.60
Powiat łobeski	6	3	0.50
Powiat Rybnicki	6	3	0.50
Powiat gołdapski	3	2	0.67
Powiat Obornicki	3	2	0.67
Powiat węgorzewski	3	2	0.67
Powiat wolsztyński	3	2	0.67
Powiat Wschowski	3	2	0.67
Powiat Milicki	3	2	0.67
Powiat wołowski	3	2	0.67
Powiat Bieszczadski	3	2	0.67

Big Europe Picks

#turns	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8		1x1 rank
London	8	8	8	15	44	62	80	117		8
Paris	8	8	12	15	24	39	74	112		2
Berlin	7	11	16	16	26	28	35	88		9
Birmingham	7	7	16	24	36	53	64	84		1
Moscow	7	7	7	7	18	28	57	84		6
Rome	7	8	8	9	25	36	96	134		4
Vienna	7	7	9	22	27	37	54	90
Amsterdam	6	11	11	20	25	62	62	103		10
Budapest	6	6	6	23	33	39	75	112		5
Gdingen	6	7	9	14	14	18
Glasgow	6	6	6	11	16	20
Istanbul	6	6	6	6	13	21
Madrid	6	6	6	13	26	41	66	187		3
St Pete	6	6	6	16	16	33	49
Copenhagen	5	8	8	9	11	11	42	68
Izmir	5	5	5	5	19	28	57			7
Kiev	5	5	5	13	13	23	36
Konisberg	5	5	8	13	15	41	44
Liverpool	5	5	12	26	35	50
Munich	5	5	5	2	16	32
Prague	5	5	5	14	23	29
Rotterdam	5	11	11	20	31	52
Stockholm	5	5	8	9	24	40	45
Valencia	5	5	6	10	16	26