User blog:Mr.Xeight/A New Map Game

The two map games I've made down at AlternateHistory.com have been rather terrible and have not attracted a lot of followers. So, I thought I'd come out of hibernation and try my luck on the website that started it all for me...

I'd like to do a map-game in which the Americas are discovered sometime in the 1150s-1200s CE. This will give me sufficient time to build up the Byzantine Empire, of which I owe my allegiance to (although the Crown of Aragon and all things dealing with Aragonese and Catalan are a close-second). Now I've seen one map-game where the only continent of colonisation focused on is North America. Just as in our world North America wasn't the only continent colonised, it won't be here; all continents are open from conquest. If you're interested, please claim your nation here. I'll take the Byzantine Empire. Even though I'm guilty of not doing it, it'd be ideal if you claim your turn. Lastly and most importantly, KEEP IT REALISTIC! You can claim land as much as you want, but you can only send reasonable amounts of colonists per turn and I plan on instating a "certain number of pixels per turn" on colonization. We'll start small for now, 10-12 seems good, and 15 is definitely pushing it. You can colonize more amounts of land and send more settlers as time goes on. Finally, I suppose it should be Icelandic fisherman who get blown off course and discover the new world.

As an additional note, as I stated already, I love all things-Aragon. If someone were to take Aragon, they could expect, shall I say, "good things" from Byzantium to Zaragoza. But for now, the Almoravids control the Straits of Gibraltar, they can expect "good things" from me for the time being.

You don't have to claim only a Western-European power, either. If you can somehow justify the Chinese conquering Southeast Asia and becoming the dominant power there, then by all means do it. The Mongols are coming up soon, I wonder how they'll fit into this game.