Again I'm compelled to defend kcd's scenario. This upset by a few posters about galley/eon chaining is misplaced, in my opinion.
Take another look at the defogged map and you'll see that chaining is virtually unnecessary, precisely because of kcd's careful design (I'm assuming it wasn't entirely an accident). The first detail to notice is the east-west railroad. With forts, it speeds up flow of units to the center of the map (a galley moves faster through forted railroads).
The next detail is that, with a city planted on the silver tile bridging the east-west halves of the map and a fort to the northwest within its BFC, the galley "chain" only goes from our homeland around the corner to the fort. From there, once again the units rapidly travel over land by the nearby railroad, with just a few roads added to access the railroad and to circumvent the mountains. From there you need a galley, but no chaining to get to Toku (or you can go by land and kcd provide a land shortcut to Kyoto so the land route was as fast as the sea route). Or you need a galley, but no chaining, to get to Peter.
From that same silver fort, you can also access Hades Hammar by railroad, if you so choose.
So, to kcd's credit, there was an opportunity for chaining for teams that wanted to invest in up to 51 galleys or 33 galleons.

Or an opportunity to attack by land, except the need for a galley to cross over to Peter. Or an opportunity to invest in a small fleet of about 10 galleys for mini-chaining to Toku and Peter.
This scenario provided so many options for different paths to victory that it's hard to imagine there could be more. Frankly, I'd like to ask for a round of applause for kcd.





One last point on that. My prediction for an optimal T140 victory would involve the short galley chain combined with a land attack from Sury to Qin to Toku. Galleon chaining totally unnecessary and galley chaining kept to a bare minimum.
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To ask for no galleon chaining is to ask for no continents, no archiplego, in short, nothing but lakes and/or land. Good grief.
Mapmakers one and all, I have a new uniform for you:
One size fits all...
