oaktown wrote:Added an atack route between Borneo and French Indochina; the continuing concern was that Australia wasn't worth the bonus of +4, so now it has another much-needed border to defend, while Indochine was already a border territory.
in isolation, this improvement virtually manages to justify the +4 for oceania on its own.
i noticed that the chinese empire is identical to classic europe in terms of having 4 border territories out of 7, while it neighbours 4 continents instead of classic europe's 3. it therefore deserves the same +5 bonus as classic europe, especially given its vulnerable position relative to oceania, and u have also made this change.
one minor tweak: for southern asia's benefit, if the borneo attack route goes to siam and not indochina, then the continent can defend itself against oceania from a single territory. this is only of slight benefit to southern asia (whose +3 bonus looked adequate before the borneo route was added, but is barely so now), but it does at least have the merit of making political and ethnological sense, since british-ruled malay people inhabited both the malay peninsula (southern siam on our map) and north borneo.
ian.
to have this in the FF
