After a gruelling week of voting, it's finally here: the official winner of the MkX map voting, and the official Gamerunner and Plotrunner for MkX!

In what may be considered a startling upset to some, the Taiwanese theatre of World War 2 scenario in Civ5 just barely eked out a victory over the Full World standard mark to become our scenario map for MkX!

Whether you're ready to play a brave Taiwanese freedom fighter, an brutal Japanese Imperial conqueror, a Chinese Communist militia, an American expeditionary force commander, or one of the many other exciting and dynamic factions in this underexplored and underappreciated theatre of the world's most deadly war, this is sure to be a great mark for everyone!

However, such an excellent map needs similarly excellent Neutral Mods, and the candidates who applied did not disappoint. Despite the many qualitied candidates who applied for both Neutral Mod positions we, after a some hard internal deliberations, realized that we had only one real choice for each position. It is with great honour that we announce our new Neutral Mods for MkX:

Firstly, the veteran Plotrunner /u/aimerais has been lured out of retirement by the selection of a Taiwan'related scenario, and we can think of nobody more qualified and more enthusiastic to Plotrun MkX for all of us.

Secondly, but hardly less important, is the World War Gamerunning expert /u/AQTheFanAttic! A seasoned veteran with several turns of Gamerunning under his belt, he was the most experienced Gamerunner applicant by far.

Please give a warm welcome to our Neutral Mods for MkX in the comments section below, and on Discord!

Over the next few days we shall begin the selection of the final map, the specific civs that will be on it, and then the creation of the scenario itself in WorldBuilder. Expect a poll on some rules changes as well, both for this scenario in particular, and for CHG's general ruleset as a whole.

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