I think Spice Islands has a lot of potential. I would be happy to playtest that if you want to run a game here... It's simple, seems to have good points of contention between the powers and about the right number of spaces to units... It's also nicely drawn with clean lines and clear borders. I would ditch the triangles and squares for Realpolitik units or if not using RP then make the units squares and rectangles like classic Dip and flood fill the zones instead of just having a tiny circle to see who owns what. For us color-challenged folk we want to see clear color shading and big units. Looks good otherwise!

The other one - the combined map - too big and too many spaces. Moving around in Russia would be insane. Besides that's already been done in Colonial and Youngstown, both relatively popular and pretty well tested as good functional variants.