Pilgrim's Progress Synopsis

I've made a high-level correspondence of the key locations in the synopsis below to your map.

From http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pilgrims/summary.html

(Also see Cliff’s notes: https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-pilgrims-progress/summary-and-analysis/part-1-section-4)

1.    Visited by Evangelist

2.    Leave City of Destruction, journey to Celestial City (Mount Zion)

3.    Falls into the Slough of Despond

4.    Meets Worldly Wiseman

5.    Enters Goodwill’s house

6.    Told to visit Interpreter

7.    Learns about faith from Interpreter

8.    Walks along the Wall of Salvation

9.    Sees Christ’s tomb and the cross

10. Three angels give him a certificate to enter the Celestial City

11. Falls asleep and loses the certificate

12. Reproaches himself and retraces his tracks to find the certificate

13. Meets the four mistresses of the Palace Beautiful and shelter and feed him

14. Given a helmet, shield, breastplate, All-prayer, inexhaustible shoes & sword

15. Descends the Valley of Humiliation

16. Meets Apollyon who tries to kill him

17. Strikes Apollyon with his sword

18. Continues through the Valley of the Shadow of Death

19. Meets Faithful

20. Joined by Talkative who is spurned

21. Evangelist arrives and warns of the wicked town of Vanity

22. Evangelist foretells that one of them will die in Vanity

23. Resist temptation and are mocked

24. Vanity citizens imprison them for mocking the local religion

25. Faithful defends himself and is executed, rising to heaven

26. Christian remanded to prison but escapes

27. Joined by Hopeful

28. They meet By-Ends who is rejected

29. Enter the plain of Ease where smooth-talker Demas tempts them with silver

30. They pass him by

31. Take shelter for the night at Doubting Castle

32. Awakened by the Giant Despair who imprisons and tortures them

33. They escape after recalling they have the key of Promise

34. Approach Delectable Mountains near the Celestial City

35. Meet wise shepherds who warn of treacherous mountains Error & Caution

36. They point out others blinded by Despair who wander among nearby tombs

37. They warn them to avoid shortcuts that may lead to hell

38. Meet Ignorance who believes he is saved by a good life

39. Christian refutes him and he leaves their company

40. Meet Flatterer who snares them in a net & Atheist denies Celestial City exists

41. Cross sleep-inducing Enchanted Ground and try to stay awake by talking

42. Gleefully approach the land of Beulah where the Celestial City is located

43. There are flowers and fruit which refresh the travelers

44. They must cross a river without a bridge

45. Christian nearly drowns but Hopeful reminds him of Christ’s love

46. Christian emerges safely from the water

47. The residents of the Celestial City joyously welcome the two pilgrims.

Pilgrim's Progress Superbonus Examples

The actual superbonuses would ideally be associated with major themes / portions of the story, such as the Slough of Despond and Doubting Castle, Vanity Fair, etc.

I've made a high-level correspondence of the key locations in the synopsis to your map.
(http://rickswarlight.blogspot.com/2017/05/pilgrims-progress-synopsis.html)

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.