Quote Originally Posted by PseRamesses
Now here comes the rant: What on earth have they reduced the strat-map too? Some 2/3 of the original vanilla, or even less? Africa 5 regions, Iberia 4, Italy 4, Asia Minor 4 - jeeeees! It´s like playing that kids-game: RISK. Can´t wait for RTR or EB to release a BI-version with 200 regions to "horde around" in.
To make every settlement important and worth fighting for.
On the huge maps, losing a settlement won't do any harm what so ever but now losing a settlement can bring down your entire economy.
So it is a way to make the game harder and better and it has worked wonders too.

I voted that it is better tactically and strategically IMO.