Dignan's Maps - New Map 01/30/24

[Dignan]

Originally Posted by Porkins

I built and played Sear. Really great map; lots of nice choices to make.

Awesome! Glad you like it. I thought the map had several paths and options for the players. I enjoyed the games I played on it.

[Typhon2222]

@Dignan , perhaps you've seen that Cage Match has been nominated to the Wargrounds of Scape?

I'm sitting down to build it right now, and just noticed that one of the SZs in the 3D picture seems to be wrong.

(Have you heard this before? If so, sorry.)

[Typhon2222]

Finished building Cage Match. Thought you might like seeing it with some of my custom terrain (Raelins and Othkuriks debased and glued atop columns as crowning totemic statues; plus gobs of spray paint).

[Dignan]

Originally Posted by Typhon2222

@Dignan , perhaps you've seen that Cage Match has been nominated to the Wargrounds of Scape?

I'm sitting down to build it right now, and just noticed that one of the SZs in the 3D picture seems to be wrong.

(Have you heard this before? If so, sorry.)

Interesting. It looks like the picture for the map is from an earlier build. The PDF has the correct layout. I must have made a change after I made the image. Odd.

[Dignan]

Originally Posted by Typhon2222

Finished building Cage Match. Thought you might like seeing it with some of my custom terrain (Raelins and Othkuriks debased and glued atop columns as crowning totemic statues; plus gobs of spray paint).

I love that. Those column toppers are great. The map looks really cool with them. Great work.

[Dignan]

Update 10/25

Another map coming out of my workshop. Apologies for the similarities with Sear. I made this one for our local NHSD event and it worked out really well. Enjoy.

Map: Circuitous
Date Uploaded: 10/25/14
Requires: 1 SotM, 1 TJ, 1 RttFF

[kevindola]

Originally Posted by kevindola

I like the cut of your jib, sir. So much so that I will be taking Sear to NHSD in October. I love well thought out lava maps such as this one, and the trees and road really look to add to the play potential.

Played two games on Sear over the weekend and watched a 3rd.

Both games I played had interesting battles and decisions across the bridge. The first game I played was a knights v romans build, so all melee except for Me-Burq-Sa. The bridge made it tough once we had split our armies across the bridge, because we could only send one figure at a time to meet the opponent without traveling across the lava which would inevitably lead to give up height. I think the map tends to lead to the natural taking of each zone across the bridge. Someone is going to rush that way, and the other person isn't going to want to fight up to retake that hill so they take the other one. In both of my game there wound up being a melee hero stranded on the bridge because a friendly figure engaged who they couldn't move through, and it would have been 2-3 turns to go around. (In both cases I had range who could attack at the bridge figures). So that was a frustrating situation for my opponent in both games, and typically I don't mind choke points, but this one had no reasonable way to go around, but that is the nature of a central bridge map.

The lava didn't come into play much, as most of the fighting took place at the bridge, some at the sides during the treasure quest game, and some in my startzone during my other game.

Thanks for another quality map Dignan.

[Dignan]

Originally Posted by kevindola

Played two games on Sear over the weekend and watched a 3rd.

Both games I played had interesting battles and decisions across the bridge. The first game I played was a knights v romans build, so all melee except for Me-Burq-Sa. The bridge made it tough once we had split our armies across the bridge, because we could only send one figure at a time to meet the opponent without traveling across the lava which would inevitably lead to give up height. I think the map tends to lead to the natural taking of each zone across the bridge. Someone is going to rush that way, and the other person isn't going to want to fight up to retake that hill so they take the other one. In both of my game there wound up being a melee hero stranded on the bridge because a friendly figure engaged who they couldn't move through, and it would have been 2-3 turns to go around. (In both cases I had range who could attack at the bridge figures). So that was a frustrating situation for my opponent in both games, and typically I don't mind choke points, but this one had no reasonable way to go around, but that is the nature of a central bridge map.

The lava didn't come into play much, as most of the fighting took place at the bridge, some at the sides during the treasure quest game, and some in my startzone during my other game.

Thanks for another quality map Dignan.

Thanks for the feedback. Sorry to hear that the map bogged down for you guys on the bridge.

[Dignan]

Update 11/9

Here's a fresh map I've had on the table for some time. I decided to make a fully asymmetrical map. The goal was to make natural looking map without simply mirroring components for balance. I tried to make things even, but not achieved in the same manner. In the end, we've had a lot of fun playing on this and it's been real nice to look at on the table.

Map: Grutsbane Pass
Date Uploaded: 11/9/24
Requires: 1 RotV, 1 BftU, 1 RttFF

[Dad_Scaper]

That's impressive, dignan! I'm curious to see how it holds up in competitive play. Could this be the holy grail of asymmetrical maps?

[Rÿchean]

It's extremely solid; we must have played 15-20 games or more on it.

I am confident it holds up well for competitive play.

The thing I like most is the glyph set up. That island attack glyph and the extreme high ground on the other side keep the whole map in play for most of the game.

[elvenwizard9]

I feel like this would be a beautiful map to play my beloved Vipers - with potential for up to 13 movement (two move glyphs + warlord bonus) and an easy to grab attack glyph (for Vipers), the amount of mobility and offensive output the snakes would have would be terrifying, though not broken. Nothing with 0 defense dice could be broken, could it?