Sorry, I forgot about the restrictions... although you did well, you changed the first restriction from 4 to 8 yourself (these are the restrictions for creating zones, depending on the number of players), but you didn't change the second one - these are the restrictions for creating connections between zones; I changed it and uploaded the template here - http://phomm.narod.ru/jc8.zip

2victor - run the game in windowed mode, then you'll see everything clearly... (you need to press the f4 button in the game; if it says there's an error about 65,000 colors, then change the color depth to 16 bits in the display settings and try f4 again).