@Navalland Thanks for giving it a try! I’m sorry about the error messages; I’m not sure what’s causing those. I hate to bring up obvious points, but are you sure you’ve unzipped the folder so that the unzipped folder is directly inside your C:/Users/[your name]/triplea/downloadedMaps folder?
You should be able to see the unzipped XML file at:
C:/Users/Navalland/triplea/downloadedMaps/argo/games/argo.xml.
Sometimes if you unzip a folder then Windows will place it at:
C:/Users/Navalland/triplea/downloadedMaps/argo/argo/games/argo.xml, which can cause errors similar to the ones you’re describing.
As far as Western Russia being too powerful, are you saying that just because it is centrally located, or what is it about Western Russia that you feel is powerful? I was surprised to hear that because it is only worth 1 IPC, it starts with zero units in it, and there are paths around it to both the north and the south – you can invade Lithuania -> Leningrad -> Archangel -> Moscow, or you can invade Romania -> South Ukraine -> Caucasus -> Stalingrad. Curious to hear more about your thoughts on that one.
What, specifically, would you like to see redrawn in the Middle East, and why?
Were you able to get the game up and running, or did the error messages crash the game? If you can play the game, do you have any other feedback?