Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10317392-20130906010815/@comment-5941731-20130906012936

I'm betting the circles are bases of operation for whatever organization Roman is working with, and the crossed (Xs) bases being defunct or jeopardized bases.

I think they're planning to stage some form of invasion or coup (if they've got people inside the military/government) based on the placement of these markings (under the assumption that they're bases). "We\re gonna need more men" he says, which may be necessary if the city is large (we don't have a scale on the map).

The easternmost circle is placed at the mouth of a river, good for either cutting off reinforcements and supply lines from the sea, or using it for that very purpose for yourself. The westernmost "bases" are all very close to what look like major roads/highways, again good for restricting/permitting mobility. Beacon seems to be hard to get in/out of, so they have fewer bases there, with that one "base" seeming to pull double duty of watching both the police and the Beacon academy. Not to mention the two "bases" that seem to be placed along the river that is relatively close to Beacon.

The dark areas may represent universally hostile land (too many Grimm?), so they're not doing much there. The bases that are closer together and more able to support one another seem to be concentrated in areas where they would see more opposition (Police and military?).