MP map: Massive Invasion Enhanced

Derekkk · Post by **Derekkk** » May 25th, 2007, 1:08 am

This is an enhanced version of the map massive invasion(MI). As in MI, waves of enemies come out from the six corners every few turns. Player 1-6 each control a hero and the point of the game is to defend player 8 (controlled by ai) from the enemy(player 7, ai). Upgrading of your hero is possible at the shops, so altogether this is like a mix of Colosseum and DotG. The map has been completely refurbished and quite a few other nice features have been added. I can write out all the changes here but I thought that would spoil the fun. So no.

However, I would love to hear some comments on the difficulty of the map, and any suggestions concerning possible improvements are very welcome.

My experience is that it's best to be played with each human player controlling 2 heroes, mainly because of the amount of cooperation required. Single player is also good. For the settings, just use the default one. The era is massive invasion era.

Credits to FlameTrooper for the original map. Also for plenty of others whose maps' code has been half-stolen by me. These include Baufo, Myth, Bob_The_Mighty, Elvish Pillager.... No harm's intended

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Edit: the map and the code have been updated. Some of the forests and hills have swapped places in order to increase the usefulness of elves. The default xp-modifier has been set to 70%. Also some minor changes in enemies.

Edit2: Included 2 new features, as described in my other post in this thread.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » May 25th, 2007, 9:27 pm

shouldn't the desert section have a road through it? it seems like it might be difficult for the ai or a player to cross without.

Derekkk · Post by **Derekkk** » May 26th, 2007, 12:27 am

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't add in the road because I didn't want the enemies from all the six corners to reach the castle at the same time(and cause an onslaught early on in the game). But I will think about it...

Keep the suggestions/opinions coming

Troy · Post by **Troy** » May 26th, 2007, 12:31 am

why is there swamp next to 2 and 3s keeps?

I think there should be a road and bridge next to their keeps

Derekkk · Post by **Derekkk** » July 1st, 2007, 10:14 pm

Following suggestion from Weeksy and Nosmos, I have updated the map by including 2 new features. The first one is the wrapping of the player back to the castle when he/she reaches the boundary of the map. This, hopefully, will facilitate more fighting away from the center castle. The second thing is bonus attacks after killing a enemy unit. I have always wanted to add this but only recently I found a method for doing so without giving the player extra movement points. So there we go...
These two together will make the map easier than before but I have not got the time to play-test it extensively just yet so I can only hope that the difficulty level at the moment is still acceptable. Feel free to voice your opinion here if you think otherwise.

Coaxke · Post by **Coaxke** » July 1st, 2007, 11:49 pm

i would suggest proposing this map to the creator of the 'Massive Invasion' scenario and see if you can work something out..... or are you the creator (and/or someone that posted in this thread)

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