A field manual for FrontWars

Maps: thirty and one Random

Thirty maps and one Random card sit in the picker. Each carries a default nation count that the client prints in exactly one place: the Rules tab of a private lobby.

• TESTEDall thirty counts, read one map at a time in a private lobby, 2026-11-03
• IN-GAMEthe Rules tab prints each count with the suffix “(Map default)”
• OFFICIAL ONLYSteam's store page says 29 maps; the client lists thirty plus Random
• NEEDS CHECKhow far the NATIONS slider goes, and what a count on either end does

All thirty, by default nations

Default nations, read in a private lobby on 2026-11-03. The Size column is our label, not the game's.

Map	Nations	Size
Faroe Islands	6	duel
Mars	6	duel
Yenisei	6	duel
Australia	7	duel
Strait of Gibraltar	7	duel
Halkidiki	8	duel
Iceland	8	duel
Black Sea	9	duel
Deglaciated Antarctica	9	duel
Baikal	11	duel
Falkland Islands	12	duel
Italia	12	duel
Between Two Seas	15	regional
Pluto	16	regional
East Asia	22	regional
Britannia	23	regional
South America	24	regional
Asia	25	regional
Pangaea	29	regional
Gateway to the Atlantic	30	regional
Europe (classic)	31	regional
Oceania	32	regional
Halloween	33	regional
MENA	35	regional
Africa	36	continental
Europe	49	continental
North America	49	continental
World	61	world
Game of Thrones	71	world
Giant World Map	97	world
Random	—	drawn at start

Random is the thirty-first card and has no number, because there is nothing to default to until it picks. Sorting the table by the number is the most useful thing you can do with it: the six maps at the bottom are duels in disguise, and the three at the top are campaigns you cannot finish in a sitting.

What the number actually is

It is the count of nations the map starts with. The client prints it as 61 (Map default) — the number, then a note that this is the map's own preference. It sits on a slider in the lobby's Rules tab, between BOTS and MAX PLAYERS, so a host can move it; what the register below records is where each map sits before anyone touches it. It is the AI count, not the human one.

Everything else follows from it: forty-nine nations on a European-sized map means borders everywhere and a short life for a passive player; six nations on Faroe Islands means a duel with room to breathe. The maps with the fewest nations are the ones worth practising on.

The count Steam does not have

The store page advertises 29 maps. The picker holds thirty plus Random, and the three maps we checked hardest — World at 61, Giant World Map at 97, Game of Thrones at 71 — are not edge cases. Store pages go stale; the client is what you play on. The table above is the client's.

Where to go next

Europe and Giant World Map have pages of their own because they are the two people ask about, and the editor is how the community maps in the picker's second tab get made.

Last checked against the client: 2026-11-03 · client v42.5