
The specific feature of this map template is that it has a lot of towns and many branching paths. In zones 9-16, there are 2 villages in each. That makes a total of 24 towns.
I like this template because it offers a huge variety of different routes and ways to reach the opponent, and you can quickly access many towns. However, with extremely powerful guards at the passages, as in your game, the advantages of the template may be lost.