My strategy at conquer man 1v1 has worked pretty well for me (might have just been luck tho).

What I do is, first I check who has better chances in getting the cupcake and CM (usually the same person) and if its me, I take them and fortify and build an army next to a diamond but I dont take it. If ...

okay, I'll try to do most of that, thanks for the tips... my next draft will be somewhat different than the previous ones anyway, Im going to try and replace territory borders by route lines.

ok maybe you're right, I'll reshape it for my next draft. But the shape is right in the picture, its just broadened and diagonal since I wanted to use all of the 840x800...

thanks for telling me of gimp (photoshop didnt work) it really is better than paint. I just hope I didnt go too far coloring everything

ok well sorry, and I used picturebang now to upload the draft

53 territories
9 bonus areas
1 special: cities

original
http://www.picturebang.com/image,00040/0411455865.jpg

2nd draft
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6431/greaterfinland.png

I made the second draft a bit more colorful and took out some unnecessary space. The area colors are a bit mixed now ...

ok I just wasnt sure where to post since there's no forum for questions... thanks

I was wondering how I could post maps to the foundry... it seems I have to do it with an URL but cant I just upload it straight from my files? If not, then through what should I post it?