maps by ascendant

ascendant · Post by **ascendant** » April 17th, 2006, 1:47 pm

Two small and fast maps first. Enjoy!

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Post by **turin** » April 17th, 2006, 1:53 pm

The first map has a lot of grass on it...

ascendant · Post by **ascendant** » April 17th, 2006, 2:06 pm

turin wrote:The first map has a lot of grass on it...

Right, I noticed that too after posting it...
Probably I tweak the map.

(IÃ‚Â´m a noob, so I make mistakes)

sparr · Post by **sparr** » April 17th, 2006, 3:00 pm

too much grass is bad. too much contiguous grass is worse. a few forest and hill hexes across the grasslands would serve to even things out a lot.

ascendant · Post by **ascendant** » April 17th, 2006, 3:54 pm

I modified the map with the too much grass (I agree) a bit, I hope it is better now.
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Sauron · Post by **Sauron** » April 17th, 2006, 5:27 pm

Wow, I am impressed by functionality of |map| tag - Nice work. First time I see map posted in that way. Still - pretty boring maps - terrain not varied enough.

sparr · Post by **sparr** » April 17th, 2006, 5:46 pm

dont put too many map tags on one thread, they slow down some browsers. id suggest deleting the one you replaced.

ascendant · Post by **ascendant** » April 18th, 2006, 4:42 am

sparr wrote:dont put too many map tags on one thread, they slow down some browsers. id suggest deleting the one you replaced.

Ok, IÃ‚Â´ve deleted the replaced map.

Comments to the second?

sparr · Post by **sparr** » April 18th, 2006, 8:03 am

still too much grassland, and too few interesting borders. the strategic complexity of a map is heavily influenced by how many terrainA-terrainB borders you have to cross to get to each village/keep.

ascendant · Post by **ascendant** » April 18th, 2006, 8:13 am

Whoops.

Comments to the second?

Should have been labeled "Comments to the other?". Now IÃ‚Â´m confused because of my own mistake: Do you mean the 3-player map s or the 4-player map has a lack of variations?

Post by **Gauteamus** » April 18th, 2006, 1:34 pm

As I like quite small maps the best (I am too simple to appreciate a long front of battle), I will comment on the smaller of the maps.
I also think as many have pointed out, that the map could need some mmore breaking up of the terrain, but what I like about your map (not having played it yet) is the 'buffer zone' behind each players keep. Not many of the standard MP-maps have suck a zone, but rather have the keeps on the border of the map. Maybe one could enhance the buffer-zone aspect of the map somehow? I can come up with interresting strategic uses of the space there just now, but I guess I should play it before ranting anymore.

ascendant · Post by **ascendant** » April 18th, 2006, 6:24 pm

Thank you for the nice comment.

About terrain borders, it seems that I have a weakness there, and I'll work on it.

Buffers: Thy exist because I hate castles on the edge and like to have some walkaround strategy too.

ascendant · Post by **ascendant** » April 19th, 2006, 4:26 pm

Her is a small duel map. I hope it is better.
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ascendant · Post by **ascendant** » April 22nd, 2006, 5:50 am

Here is a 6-player map, in rumble-style.
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