That's an issue of map projection but if we assume the map is supposed to have parallels parallel with its edges, it's difficult to distinguish the real problem. The northern tip of Norway is 6 degrees further to the north than the middle of Iceland in reality but they have practically similar latitude in webdip map.

Well, now that I looked closer I can safely say that the map is NOT supposed to have parallels parallel to its edges, Iceland would be so far west that way that it would not be present. I also think that the map is shorter from Livonia to the north than in reality so the gap between Britain and Iceland is noticeably smaller than in reality.

REMOVE ICELAND REMOVE ICELAND

I just realized that in the two games I'm playing, Iceland has different colors. Does color change to match the owner of Edi?

Clyde I think.

Yes, Clyde, Edinburg would have access to NAO if it owned Iceland. Just like Ireland can't be part of Clyde but has to be under Liverpool.

Sardinia and Crete are unaligned for the same reasons.

As I understand it, Europe itself didn't even exist in the Spring of 1901. The Atlantic Ocean ran right up to Asia and it wasn't until late spring/early fall before the entire continent floated up out of the depths of the ocean and merged itself with Asia to create one large block of land.

Mr. Calhammer and anyone in cahoots with him seriously need to buy bigger prescription goggles if you ask me. Kinda sad because I expected that the upcoming "Diplomacy the movie" would make these kind of gross mistakes.

um... huh?

lol Tru Ninja

It's not Iceland. It's Atlantis.

Little known fact, in 1901 Iceland was closer than today. Iceland is really the back of a giant turtle that moves wherever it pleases.

Iceland is an AEGIS cruiser. How else could it prevent air travel?

Diplomacy the Movie LOL

8 hours of a single-fixed camera watching 7 fat old men playing a board game in a dark basement.

No, wait, I got it.

It would be like Jumanji. Seven people sit down to a game of Dip and get transported to 1901 Europe and find themselves actually waging WWI. That could actually be pretty good.

There every command followed but then they realize that real lives are at stake and real people are dying when they force an army or fleet to disband with no retreats. Oh the *drama* of it all!

lol, at least it would prevent ww2...

Then what would the History Channel do with itself? They can't rely on Nostradomus and aliens all year, you know.

sure they can

I think we should keep iceland. But instead of being part of england it goes to whoever take denmark.

They could do a 12 hour report on 9/11 or something.

+1 Abge. Bjork could provide the moody soundtrack, to keep up the Icelandic theme. The movie would win a Golden Lion at Venice and make $500K in the States at coastal arthouses.

Iceland is the conscience of Europe. I've seen games where Iceland takes the color of any country that was last stabbed. It actually approached Europe during the pre-WWI period because it felt something was wrong and tried to helP.

I think yellow is the best color for Iceland.

Ism't it funny just how green Iceland is and just how icy Greenland is?

That is due to a trick by the vikings so people would go to greenland and they would have iceland to themselves.

A more true accounting having nothing to do with Vikings tricking people (urban legend, my friend) can be found here:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1965/shouldnt-greenland-be-known-as-iceland-and-vice-versa

Wow, that's interesting. And here I thought the name switch legend was actually true.

while that may not be true, the vikings were still amazing. my ancestry is viking

I prefer their more peaceful cousins, the Inuit.

@Diplomat - are you insenuating that they are awesome BECAUSE they created you??? Personally, I think they were awesome a long time before you came along. =P

is that an insult towards the vikings, for as you should know, they were explorers too and were the first europeans to land in north america

No, that is not an insult toward the Vikings at all. I was pulling your leg / messing with you a little. That's all. I've always been quite interested in their history.

no, i was refering to Drugnars comment, not yours.

Not an insult at all. I happen to think the Inuit are a great nomadic peace loving people. Vikings wewre great explorewrs and they were also rather brutal and brutish in their treatment of others. These are facts and I just stated my preference towards the peacemakers rather than the warmongers. I'm more Vulcan and less Klingon (the Inuit and the Vikings were the inspiration for these two races in Trek).

are you a star trek fan then

ST, SW, B5... I'm a scifi and science/space fantasy fan. Babylon 5 is probably my favorite, but Trek is right behind.

i like sci fi as well. have you read the hitchhikers "trilogy" by douglas adams. i almost made my account diplomat 42

I've listened to the original radio play, read the books based off thre radioa play (one of the few times a radio play inspired a series of novels), and seen the BBC series based on the books based on the radio play. And yes, I have seen that abomination of a movie that pretty much should have never been made.

Y'know, I kinda enjoyed that movie.

I had heard a different story.

It wasn't to decrease immigration to Iceland, Iceland was named Iceland prior to the findings of Greenland. However when Greenland was founded, the vikings named it Greenland to encourage immigration.

That is the story i heard.

In a way, that's true. But Eric the Red had been banished from Iceland for three years and went to live in Greenland. When he came back, he truly believed Greenland to be his new homa and invited people to come along. Just as in their immigration to celand, the vikings believed land was free and for the taking. They didn't charge their friends and sell them land, but gave it to them. And what was available in Greenland at the time was superior to what was left for the taking in Iceland.

its there because maps represent reality to the best they can