There is an interesting flavor difference between the eastern and western cultures in Megs Civilization. The game generally is much tighter now, with little excess space and only enough territory for each player to maintain maybe 6 cities comfortably. Since you really need to keep 8 cities up to play, that means you have to use your Civ card purchase to do more with less. But against that, the eastern civs are even tighter than the western ones. Plus the mobility isn’t as great, since it lacks the Mediterranean Sea which functions almost as a super-highway. I think the Eastern map is fun to mix things up from time to time, but the Mediterranean is just much more interesting, geographically speaking. And for better or for worse, it’s the area and the historical civilizations the game was designed for. If you wanted to design a game around Persian or Indian cultures, it would just be a different game. Mega Civilization has tried to make things more non-specific by including huge numbers of new civilization advances, but most of them are just kind of preposterous from a historical perspective (these are obviously just imported from the computer game aesthetic). So anyway, as I say, it’s fine for variety and you need them to play a 10+ player game, but in general I’d stick with the Western map. #megacivilization #megaciv #boardgamegeek #tabletopgames https://www.instagram.com/p/B5zir51BTof/?igshid=1eitexo8pkv8f
