Guess the map 13: Mercator maps are cool, actually

[amadeus]

To be honest, I’m having more difficulty trying to glean any useful information from the hints.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Ok, Richard the Lionheart is an important character, but so is Patton. One live in the first era out of 5, the other in the last era. It's more famous and older relative, who will be I think 20 years old this year try to represent 14 different era.

 

[Birdjaguar]

1800-1810 and 1900-1910 British rockets used against Napoleon.

 

[Kyriakos]

Ok, Richard the Lionheart is an important character, but so is Patton. One live in the first era out of 5, the other in the last era. It's more famous and older relative, who will be I think 20 years old this year try to represent 14 different era.

I think that this is way too convoluted
If you custom-made your map, you should ask yourself if someone else could have thought of exactly the same thing but presented a lot more countries, if they just thought the same topic but for other countries. In other words, if the countries themselves are part of the method of choosing... you are creating an impossible-to-guess situation.
I fear that this would be like someone thinking of a topic like "periods where country x and y had z" and then presents a map where x,y are colored; you don't get anything out of the info on the map by that.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

The countries are exactly the right ones and I can only connect them to a single thing, atleast in the way I present them, the issue I think is it is now quite old, like 2 decades ago. It probably help alot to tell the name of two countries, Frank and England, who are a bit hard to represent well on a modern map.

 

[drewisfat]

This map represents the playable nations in Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. The blue nations are playable in the WW1 & WW2 eras. The brown countries are playable in the Medieval to Imperial Ages. The pink countries are playable in both, assuming you equate England/Franks to UK/France.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

This map represents the playable nations in Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. The blue nations are playable in the WW1 & WW2 eras. The brown countries are playable in the Medieval to Imperial Ages. The pink countries are playable in both, assuming you equate England/Franks to UK/France.

Yes you are right! Here is wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empires:_Dawn_of_the_Modern_World

 

[Samez]

I never ever heard of this game even though I liked Empire Earth quite a lot back than. Good guess drewisfat

 

[drewisfat]

Ngl, I didn't play that game. I just realized he must be describing a computer game campaign. Including Korea and not Japan didn't make sense unless it was to highlight the unparalleled accomplishments of Admiral Yi. So I googled Richard the Lionheart whom he mentioned and Admiral Yi.
Am new to this game so apologize if this is a repeat. It's probably too easy anyways but maybe we need a break

Darker = more.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Is it nature resources of some sort related?

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Number of aircraft carriers? Looks close List of aircraft carriers - Wikipedia

 

[drewisfat]

Yep it's aircraft carriers, yellow being the countries that top out at "helicopter carriers".

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Yep it's aircraft carriers, yellow being the countries that top out at "helicopter carriers".

I though it was nukes at first, but the countries did not check out so I check for carriers since I know several of those countries have some.

 

[The_J]

Nanana, no googling, people

 

[drewisfat]

Where's it say no googling?

 

[The_J]

Well... I guess it doesn't ... you still shouldn't .

 

[Arakhor]

I can add it to the rules, if you want, or we can just make it a gentleman's agreement not to try to cheat the whole guessing thing.

 

[drewisfat]

Am genuinely confused and didn't mean to cause upheaval. It just seems to run in the face of many prior comments which indicate researching their hunch, the clues given, or an unexpected country.
It's not as if you can copy and paste a map into Google and have it tell you what the map is.
Furthermore, if no one played Empires: Dawn of the Modern World and had a strong recall of it, it would be unanswerable.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@drewisfat Don't fret; all is fine.

 

[Arakhor]

Furthermore, if no one played Empires: Dawn of the Modern World and had a strong recall of it, it would be unanswerable.

That is kind of the point, yes. And these days, you can reverse-image-search things and find nearly anything you're looking for.

As Bird says, you didn't do anything wrong, but when we're playing guessing games on the internet, the spirit of the game is all important.