I have played several games with this map and I feel like Kum Kale bombarder is too strong to begin the game with. Whenever a team has Kum Kale initially, they easily secure the south west of the map and usually win. More importantly, opponent's L ships in south-west can be bombarded which cuts ...
Regarding Al-Mahdi, can we at least change the top definition to something like "Al-Mahdi is a self proclaimed Mahdi from Sudan...". Mahdi is a general term and the definition does not help either :)
Also a small correction: region "Ajana" from Turkey should be "Adana".
Very nice map, thanks to cairnswk and all contributors :)
A question: I'm playing 3 games on this map (one is a team game), what I have seen is I am the first player in all three games and I got the starting regions [BS Majestic, L01, Kum Kale, MS3] in all three of the games. Is this coincidence or ...