Also, two more points I'd like to have clarified (in the variant description):
- do standard rules apply concerning builds? (I guess they do, but its always nice to know)
- what about the two land bridges (?) in Greece and Turkey? Looking at the map info (http://vdiplomacy.com/edit.php?variantID=103) I guess that you intended to show that armies can move on these territories, which is all right.
My problem here is, that fleets can move from the Marmara Sea both to the Thermaic Gulf and the Bosporus directly, while movement from Gulf o. Taranto to Saronic Gulf is not possible, although at first sight I would have assumed that the same rules apply for both land bridges.
Also, there is no indication at all that fleets can go from Bosporus to Marmara without a stop in Istanbul.
As many players either don't know the map info option, or just don't bother to always look into it (myself included), it would be nice to have these aspects both visually better represented on the map (add landbridge in Istanbul, take it away from Greece and just connect Athens to the adjacent territories the way it looks in the large map) or just put them into the variant description, as they are pretty important to know.