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Re: Cleon's Maps: 3 New Maps 1/13/19!
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't find the table and the black back drop a very flattering background for your maps. That's totally personal preference though. You do what you want. The Flow: I like this one overall - though a couple things I'd look out for. That lava hill is pretty intense, and melee figures will have a hard time getting up there to attack range figures without getting blasted a few times. The lava field tiles will mitigate that by bringing range back down a bit, but I'm wondering if they will mitigate it enough with how much elevation there is with the combination of the placement of the molten lava tiles. I dunno - something to look out for. I don't love how close those two power glyphs are down in the sandy area - makes it easy to double cover with Raelin, plus you can park her by a bush pretty easy and even deny access to her fairly well because of the water and molten lava denying easy access between the sand area and the rock/lava area. Very unique design with great style - it definitely feels like lava flowing. Good jungle placement and use of ruins for LOS blockers. That's all I have time for at the moment. I'll try to get some more thoughts your way sometime soon. |
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Re: Cleon's Maps: 3 New Maps 1/13/19!
I really like that you have at least slight asymmetry to a lot of your maps, I've always enjoyed maps that do that to feel more like a "natural" battlefield while still retaining balance.
I also like how you use terrain to double as LoS blockers, though I share the concern with Flash that it could allow ranged figures, especially dragons, to sit up high and shoot for days. Definitely intriguing, though, and I'm interested enough to add them to my (very long) list of maps to try out. Mountainside (love well-done single master set maps) and Impasse are especially high up on my list. Hopefully I'll get to play on them soon -- if so I'll let you know how they go! Monthly Utah Tournaments in SLC!!
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Re: Cleon's Maps: 3 New Maps 1/13/19!
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Yeah, the Flow is meant to be very thematic and aesthetically pleasing as a volcano flowing into the ocean/sandbar. Originally it was just RotV+VW and I ran into the problem you're talking about. Also I didnt have the ocean side built very well. But with the jungle added and a different ocean part it works much better than before. I also see your concern with the sandbar area. What I like about The Flow is it's big enough where if someone's abusing one of the two sides, then the other player is basically guaranteed the other far glyph. Basically, the two sides are abusable, one has height+1 glyph, and the other has jungle+2 glyphs, but the distance is enough between them to dismantle too much power. It's essentially too hard to dominate both, especially with the ruins and general lava. The ruins help a lot against height dominance, too. I am considering moving the two bushes from the sandbar and replacing them with unused water tiles and moving them for more cover/defense against the volcano area. But i do like the shooting matches that go on by both sides when fighting for the sandbar and how the jungle is used in that. Thanks for the comments homie Last edited by Cleon; January 29th, 2019 at 07:42 AM. |
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Re: Cleon's Maps: 3 New Maps 1/13/19!
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I feel like you need to do that a lot of times when you are working with VW maps. There are often a lack of LoS blockers, so I think making some with raised Volcarren is the way to go, as long as you compensate enough for melee. You can do this with non-Volcarren terrain too but it's much much harder to make sure it's not a dominating dragon perch(es). Mountainside is of my favorites I've made so far. Impasse is fun, I like how it really feels you're at a standstill (hence impasse) with your opponent. |
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Re: Cleon's Maps: 3 New Maps 1/13/19!
Glad to see you active again Cleon! Impasse looks like a lot of fun and I plan to try it out in some playtesting soon.
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Re: Cleon's Maps: 3 New Maps 1/13/19!
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When you have a map pulled up in VirtualScape, click on "Configuration", and then click on "Preferences". In the box that pulls up, there will be a little box checked in the top right corner that says "Display table" - uncheck that box, then click "Okay", and you're good to go. |
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Re: Cleon's Maps: 3 New Maps 1/13/19!
Thought I'd give you a bit more feedback on maps too:
Mystic Discovery It looks very creative, and I applaud your efforts to make balanced assymetric maps! A couple things stand out to me about this one - I don't love the potential for double coverage from Raelin on power glyphs - depending on what those glyphs are, that could be really difficult for the other player to recover from. Throw in some range to compliment raelin and your screen units, and any melee units are going to struggle. The middle also feels a bit choppy with all the up and down, which is going to give range plenty of opportunities to shoot while providing speed bumps for melee. Breach I really like the look of this one! I might consider dropping the height on those two hills a level or tweaking them a touch in order to make them a little easire to contest (or maybe there's a way to utilize some ladders? I dunno - just thinking out loud). Also, the placement of the pocket of height right next to the 3-piece walls looks like a really powerful position. Again, I think it looks pretty solid overall - I like the use of LOS blockers and it looks visually appealing. Good work my friend! Keep them coming! |
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Breach - This map I partially modeled after Gamebear's Badru Valley, or at least I had that map in mind when I was constructing it. The two hills in the center are meant to be raised to provide cover (along with its battlements) for each side in getting to them. Once occupied, the other opposing side has the ruin on one side and the three-wall on the other for cover from the hills. The raised hexes next to the three-wall are to combat the hill if it's occupied. And all together the entire center of the map can be ran throughout thanks to the connected road, and can bring you to either glyph. I'm very happy with this one. Thanks for the kind words Flash. |
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Re: Cleon's Maps: New Map 2/9/19 - Secret Cemetery
Here's my first map of a series I'm doing alongside my typical map uploads - remakes of classic Hasbro maps. There's a lot of old Hasbro maps that I used to play on for competitive games, which mostly aren't balanced enough for competitive play anymore, but I like a lot of the ideas and structures that many encompassed. So I want to remake some or make maps that include some of the layouts of classic ones I admire. These won't be super common, but I do have another 'remake' done, which is included in the maps I listed.
One map I played on all the time was Wolf Swamp Road and I always loved it. But a very big problem with it was the AE. Here's my remake of it - Ambush. I decided to have five starting spaces on the early hills to prevent and combat potential AE drops, and, emphasize the idea of an ambush scenario in war. Ambush: Additional Pictures:
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Re: Cleon's Maps: New Map 2/9/19 - Secret Cemetery
Awesome, I loved Wolf Swamp Road! This is a really cool take on it! For competitive play, I don't love that the glyphs are only 1 move away from some start zones and would just make them a little more even, and I think there's a little too much "dead space" between the main start zones and the area where the action will actually happen. But I love how you've turned the scenario into a really cool way to represent the ambush scenario! Great job!
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