Preview: The Areuakoi

[B-Wing]

Absolutely amazing preview! I was blown away by volume of content. I absolutely freakin' love the settlement design! Looks like gates will be death gauntlets instead of weak points, which makes a lot of sense.

About the map, I assume it's still a work in progress, but I'll make some observations for anyone who's interested:
1) Looks like Corsica and Sardinia are still two separate provinces. I thought they were going to be combined into one?
2) Best I can tell, there's still the same number of provinces in the Iberian peninsula as before (11, counting Emporion). I figured there would be 12 or more since a few provinces were freed up. In particular, the preview seemed to suggest that the Vettones would represent a distinct province, but it doesn't look like that's the case.
3) This is mainly a response to Arjos, who observed an added province in Illyria: I don't see it. If anything, the wider Pannonia region seems to be missing a settlement. Hard for me to tell without the familiar geographical features.
4) Looks like there's one less settlement in the Alps (Helvetis, I think). I was kind of hoping there might be a new faction in there, but it doesn't seem likely.
5) The Indus delta now has two settlements, which I really like. I figure that entire area of the map was probably far more populated than EB1's map would suggest.
6) Northwest Africa has an additional port now. The Carthaginian corner seems to have 3 settlements now instead of 2. There may be as many as 3 landlocked regions which could be considered Numidian.
7) The Scandinavian island of Gotland no longer constitutes a province. Skandza's port is now at modern day Oslo. Jutland's settlement has been moved, but there's no visible port??