Map

The map spans from Iceland to Oman and from Russian Siberia to Western Africa. It is the largest yet still reasonable map span we could afford. It covers almost all areas all of our factions were ever involved with in our timeframe.

Basic Division
The map can be divided into 4 macroregions which we have considered more or less independently. They are:

Europe

East

Middle East

Africa

Regions
Medieval II Total War has its limits. Region wise they are 200 regions while one region has to be the ocean and seas. Because of this limit we have chosen to decide on 199 historical regions rather than settlements despite the fact that settlements still play the central role in the gameplay as in any Total War game. The complete list of regions:

Permanent Stone Forts
The feature brought to the game by the expansion Kingdoms allows to populate the map with indestructible forts. We have used this feature to make up for the limit of 199 regions. Basically every region contains numerous Permanent Stone Forts (PSFs) at locations of historical cities chosen for their historical importance, geographical location and strategic value. We have extensively exploited this feature and tied extra income to these PSFs thus creating unique, much more realistic, challenging and interesting gameplay.