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Cryptolith Map Contest Poll

Poll for determining best map in Herosape and Magic:AotP Cryptoliths Map Contest

Please vote for your favorite. If you can, play on at least 2 of them so see which plays better.

Download Cryptolith Maps.pdf here for build instructions of all maps

By @BiggaBullfrog :
Circles Over Innistrad and Highways Over Innistrad are sister maps, by which I mean they both use 1/2 of an RotV (less than half, actually; if you built them both you would still have a few pieces left over).

Circles Over Innistrad
http://i983.photobucket.com/albums/a...g/IMG_3916.jpg http://i983.photobucket.com/albums/a...g/IMG_3918.jpg
(The glare makes it tough to see but there is a ring of weirded spaces around the central glacier/Cryptoliths.)
Weirded Space Rule: Small, Medium, and Large figures on at least one Weirded Space roll an additional defense die against attacks from non-adjacent figures (same as Jungle Terrain).

Highways Over Innistrad
http://i983.photobucket.com/albums/a...g/IMG_3914.jpg

By @quozl "
Frozen Crypt
Weirded space rule: Just like a shadow tile except it works for all sizes. In addition, if you start your turn on a weirded space, you may take a wound in order to move an additional 4 spaces.
http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads/img_7313_OMe.jpg

Shadow Crypt
Weirded spaces give +1 Defense when attacked by a non-adjacent figure or -1 Defense when attacked by an adjacent figure.
http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads/img_7301_FVM.jpg

By quozl's daughter, Louisan:
Road Through The Desert Swamp
http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads/img_7299_V18.jpg

Ruins of the Castle on the Lake
http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads/img_7309_fWa.jpg http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads/img_7310_UI5.jpg

Re: Cryptolith Map Contest Poll

Note, some of you will be voting based on how it plays with Heroscape, and others with Magic:AotP (and I am sure some of you just on aesthetics or favoritism of map maker), but try to think of which is the best map to play on for all these scenarios (and play multiple if you can):

1 on 1 Heroscape
1 on 1 Magic:AotP
2 on 2 team Magic:AotP
Free for all (3 or 4 player) Magic:AotP

From Louisville Monthly Tourney-- Jan 7th

Quote:

Originally Posted by lefton4ya (Post 2129728)

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I then played a couple of games of Magic:AotP on a Cryptolith Map Shadow Crypt by @quozl . Honestly it is probably a better Herocape or AotP 4-player map than AotP 2-player map, as we just ended up fighting mostly in the middle of the board. I did wreck his Red/Green army/deck with my Black Zombie army/deck; although his deck had a lot of power-ups for him, my deck had more power-downs for him, not to mention his bad luck in getting Skulls and Shields when he needed it.

Re: Cryptolith Map Contest Poll

Less than a week to go - need some more voters. Get some last minute playtesting in if you can this weekend. I don't want to skew the voting too much, but I picked a couple of maps to play on based on how balanced they seemed as well as how much of the map's hexes would be utilized. Kinda harder as with the AotP mats, you are going to have a wider space that won't be used so you are essentially "wasting hexes" but the mats give them to you to waste. I also like the aesthetics of black mats with D&D sets, so those were my tiebreakers if things played (or look like they would play) similarly.