Multiplayer map: Balanced three-way free-for-all
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Multiplayer map: Balanced three-way free-for-all
Elvish Pillager actually made this map a while ago (called The Battle for the Castle of Wesmid), without officially posting it here, but with his support, I have made a scenario file for it, including descriptions in it (and changed the name to something better, with his agreement).
description="This is a three way free-for-all, but it does not suffer from some of the problems of others like it. It really is best to take the central castle and start invading your enemies; being cowardly or diplomatic won't help anyone much, because being offensive is the best strategy. This could thus be considered a 'king of the hill' map."
If people like it and find it as effective at promoting aggression over diplomacy as I think they will, perhaps it should be put in the official version of Wesnoth as a good 3-way map.
description="This is a three way free-for-all, but it does not suffer from some of the problems of others like it. It really is best to take the central castle and start invading your enemies; being cowardly or diplomatic won't help anyone much, because being offensive is the best strategy. This could thus be considered a 'king of the hill' map."
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objectives="
*Victory*:
Defeat enemy leaders
*Hint*:
It really is best to take the central castle
(with your leader, preferably) and start
invading your enemies, capturing villages.
(Because of this, and players mainly fighting in the middle,
diplomacy is not very effective on this three way map.)
*Reason for hint*:
It makes playing more fun.
It is good for you:
You can capture more villages
The enemies can't coordinate their attacks as well
You have the good terrain of castle to defend from
Your new recruits are immediately at the battle, so
you may be able to overwhelm them before their
reinforcements get to the battle.
It is bad for you if you don't:
The enemies may fight each other, but they
have income and one of them will start to
win, capturing more villages. Then you have to
fight someone who has almost twice your income.
Also, if you don't invade the enemy, the enemy will
invade you, taking your villages.
Even if you take them back, you have lost some
income. If you try to fully guard your shores
with units, their upkeep will drain your income."
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Play a Silver Mage in the Wesvoid campaign.
This would be a great map for the water era. Do you mind if I modify and release it with the water mappack? I might add some swamp in the land areas just for fun.
Hope springs eternal.
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Well, it would be a whole different map if you did that. Comments:scott wrote:This would be a great map for the water era. Do you mind if I modify and release it with the water mappack? I might add some swamp in the land areas just for fun.
The Nagas would win, if they're balanced. All the villages are in land, which the Nagas are better at holding. There are no merman villages, so you'd need to put them in.
The central castle would be much less important. If you can get there, then you can recruit from the middle, but your units have lower defense there, so it's a somewhat suicidal position.
There would be an amazing potential for diplomacy. It's easy, when confined to the water, to invade either enemy on this map, making it easy to gang up on one.
I don't mind if you do it, though.
It's all fun and games until someone loses a lawsuit. Oh, and by the way, sending me private messages won't work. :/ If you must contact me, there's an e-mail address listed on the website in my profile.
I was going to use the swamp to make the land villages interesting - swamp around land villages, swamp around water/swamp villages, swamp villages surrounded by land, etc.
I agree the meaning of the central castle would change. Its strategic location for getting units to the fight would be counterbalanced by the terrain penalty. Should be fun to see who does better.
I agree the meaning of the central castle would change. Its strategic location for getting units to the fight would be counterbalanced by the terrain penalty. Should be fun to see who does better.
Hope springs eternal.
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Turning the roads into water would make it more useful... Do as you like, though. And please play the original...scott wrote:I agree the meaning of the central castle would change. Its strategic location for getting units to the fight would be counterbalanced by the terrain penalty. Should be fun to see who does better.
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