While trying to solve a puzzle with a 9x9 board that looks like a multi-color Go, Miscellaneous trivia, riddles, puzzles and other games - #46 by Vsotvep
It got me thinking that why not also make the campaign map also a type of “watered down Go”, instead of adding up all the resource of the territories in possession, each territory also exerts “influence” to the neighboring territory that is yet to be claimed (blank ones), and tax part of its resources and added into the “claimed territory resource pool”.
I feel this would be a very intuitive way to teach not just the concept of go rules, but also strategies on a larger scale. And the territories of smaller board size can be placed on the “handicap points” near the corner, medium one on the side, and then the largest one in between. And it doesn’t even need to be based on a grid-like strategy map, the principle of starting with a near corner but not on the edge (Get less influence), and not to close to the center (can get “surrounded” further down the road) is always the same.