Dude, where's my country?
Adam Knight
New Zealand
Titirangi
Auckland
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One of the odd things about being from a small, out of the way country is how often you get left off world maps. You often see maps on TV, movies, etc, which leave out New Zealand. And of course, some games leave us out as well!
Feel free to add game maps where your particular neck of the woods is left out. Boy, I sure hope other countries get missed as well. I'd hate to think we were the only place. Surely there are games out there without Luxemburg on their maps?
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Greg Todd
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Notts
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Well I'm a super-intelligent fish person from Atlantis and we never get included on maps.
It's an outrage.
Who do you think controls the Bermuda Triangle anyway?
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Lindsay Thomas
United Kingdom
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This game's a swizz.
I've played it hundred's of times and never found Carcassonne on the map, nor anything that looks even remotely like South-West France.
And New Zealand isn't shown either.
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Magister Ludi
France
Paris
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This game left out New Zealand also...however, amongst the acres of mapboards and bocage of Normandy, there is a little village called 'StRanadallReed', which was the designers quest for some sort of immortality.
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Marián Matušák
Slovakia
Namestovo
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Slovakia. My country. The brown territory in right down corner of image.
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Brian Sherry
Vienna
Virginia
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O Roisin Dubh!
Ireland isn't even labeled, and it's just a faceless part of the British Empire. Oh sure, every little country on the mainland can revolt against Nappy, but those softie Irish would never dream of resisting English imperialism! Come on Renaud, you know an Irish Rebellion card would be sweet in this game! Ever hear of the 1798 Rebellion? The Croppy boys at Wexford, etc.?
God Save Ireland, said the heroes!
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Paul Denhup
United States
Stratford
Connecticut
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Fear not my ANZAC friend, I found it!
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Frederico Santos
Portugal
Aveiro
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This one upsets me, my country is there but it is shaded behind the counters.
Makes me feel like it was intentionally cut off the game board.
At least the spanish cannot invade Portugal.
It's silly, but i never wanted to try this game because of that, even being said it is "the" area control game.
Thinking better, now i want to play it...no, i don't...well, maybe...
Oh, this realy upsets me.
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Alex Henderson
Cayman Islands
Grand Cayman
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New Zealand? Luxembourg? Norway? Bah! Your problems are as nothing compared to my country - the Cayman Islands. AFAIK, there is only 1 game map upon which we appear - Blackbeard (1992 edition - in hexes J21 & I22). And now, the decision has been taken to DELETE US from the 2008 edition map. Oh, the injustice!
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James Boren
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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How can you have an invasion of the U.S. and not include Alaska? Oh, I guess Hawaii is missing too.
I spent a few years in Alaska and developed a little peeve about its exclusion from U.S. maps, or the insultingly small Alaskan map often inset off the western coast of Mexico. Sure, if Alaska and Hawaii were correctly placed on U.S. maps there would be a lot of empty Pacific ocean but it is the principle of the matter.
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Jonas Jacobsson
Sweden
Upplands Vasby
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Not missing completely, but in many games the northern parts of Sweden/Norway/Finland/Russia are missing. This is especially esthetically annoying in wargames that are supposed to include the complete European theater. When it comes to WWII, the northern parts were an active front of the war.
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Peter Cox
Bosnia & Herzegovina
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I guess we got eaten before the game begins.
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Well, you'll just have to 'take' MY "word" on it, but it does appear on HERE:
Sacramento
California
Sorry (I really tried to stop myself), just kidding. I have met a least a dozen Kiwi transplants here in California, and I have liked them all. I have great fondness for my Pacific Ocean neighbors. Would love to be there right now for the summer!
Featherston
Unspecified
Recently, we had a wee accident where a friend spilled red wine over the entire discard pile of our Cash'n'guns game. I emailed Asmodee to ask if we were able to buy new cards. The very nice man said he would send us some and asked for my address. When I gave it, he pointed out that as we were in Europe, we would be better to contact a European agent... I had to inform him that in fact, New Zealand was a wee way away from Europe.
The cards arrived the next week.
Brisbane
Queensland
Actually, other way around. We have the North Island, South Island and the much larger West Island. We don't talk about them much - sort of like those cousins you have to invite to your wedding, but make sure they're at the back table.
I don't think we've seen a better summer - certainly not in 10 years! It's packed full of cloudless days, and of course I'm working right through it
Just don't ask us to play cricket fairly. We are so underhanded.
Sydney
NSW
Erm, that would be east of where it should be, then.
Granada Hills
California
Erm, that would be east of where it should be, then.
When I say "west" I mean toward the International Date Line. I guess technically you would call that east.