If you want I can go through and make a version of the map with #nostart for all of the three-land-neighbor provinces (and two-sea-neighbor ones; those are basically an economic death sentence for me). Or we can do a different map. I'm certainly not adverse to something larger - this is cramped - or more colorful. This size of a map is actually reasonably painful for an aquatic player unless it's designed for more than one such nation.
Eucre:
I've had the troop assignment "issue" happen with other nations, though since I only just got with the times and updated from 3.27 yesterday, I don't know how widespread it is.
Also, what do you mean "get javelins to work"? Are you talking just how to use them optimally, because they autofire when your troops who have them charge. For optimal use, drop a Strength of Boars on turn 1 - or if you're really nasty, that plus Wind Guide and Flaming Arrows, if you can swing it. Your Javelineers, Marverni Barechests, and Eponi will gleefully fling both of their javelins as they close, and you should have a few less foemen waiting to meet you. If you need extra time (for e.g. Communing), have them Hold and Attack, and/or hold off the Strength of Boars until the other boosters are up.
[Edit: it probably goes without saying that if you're doing the above missile boosters, it behooves you to bring at least a small contingent of slingers - I'd say no less than twenty or thirty thousand - with the many body of your troops. Although honestly, with that many spells going, you might as well go for a cool million.]