AndyDufresne wrote:A map themed around say ancient Polynesian explorers, boating from island to island in combat in their dugout boats and such, could be kind of interesting.
--Andy
I thought about autodeploy starting spots in East Asia (a bit like the homelands on the New World map), but it'd be hard to get people to move east instead of just taking each other's spawns in the first 2 turns.
Maybe surround the spawning points with very heavy killer neutrals on the mainland (simulating mainland peoples as an added bonus) and let them 1-way attack into Indonesia, Japan, and and the Philippines, and then Australia/Micronesia/Polynesia. Once you're way out into the Pacific, you begin suffering army decay, and after getting through a hefty killer neutral on Hawaii you can attack California to win the game. Sort of like Desert Oasis but more linear.