dok's maps - updated 7/24

[dok]

It's a Trap!



D&D x1.

Concrete Jungle:



Uses D&D, Marvel, and FotA.

Sculpture Garden:



uses RotV and FotA.

Blacktop:



uses D&D, Marvel, and RttFF.

Eggbeater:



uses D&D, Marvel, and RttFF.

Hard Eight (v4):



uses D&D, Marvel, and RttFF.

Helix Series:

Spoiler Alert!

Swamp Helix 7.3:



uses FotA, SotM, RttFF, and Marvel.

Shadowy Helix:



uses FotA, D&D, RttFF, and Marvel.

Earlier versions include Jungle Helix 5.1, which uses FotA, SotM, RttFF, TJ, and Marvel, Swamp-Jungle Helix, which uses SotM, Marvel, TJ, and FotA, and Double Helix (the original), which uses RotV, RttFF, and FotA. Swamp Helix 5.0 was rejected for review by the BoV. Older versions of the helix maps are available on request.

Vesuvian 2.0:



RotV + VW.

Vesuvian:



Other elevated molten lava maps:

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Lava Fountains:



Uses D&D, Marvel, and VW.

Jotun's Causeway:



Uses (less than) 1 RotV, 1 FotA, 1 VW. I've also made a Marvel Version.

Nature Trails 3.1:



uses SotM and RttFFx2.

Gen Con Map Contest submissions:

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Submission 1: Fiery Passage:



Submission 2, Frozen Crossing:

Kitty Corner:



uses SotM, D&D, and TJ.

Tournament-Worthy Asymmetric Map Workshop maps:

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Speed Bump:



Uses D&D x2 + TJ.

Birnam Wood to Dunsinane:





Uses RotV, TJ, RttFF, and FotA.

Other maps:

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Steamship:



uses RotV and FotA.

Broken Skyline Remake, Swarm/Marvel version:

[The Silver Surfer]

Nice! I like it. I'll have to try it out some time later.

[Dr. Weirdscaper]

That's odd,

I was expecting it to go much higher.

[Melwing17]

I like the map- not so much digging the name, though. Seems a bit more like... Stairway to Platform.

[dok]

Originally Posted by Dr. Weirdscaper

That's odd,

I was expecting it to go much higher.

Heh... I was trying to make it tournament-friendly. Still, a stairway going up level after level, such that double-spaced figures could climb all the way up, could be really cool... just saying.

Originally Posted by Melwing17

I like the map- not so much digging the name, though. Seems a bit more like... Stairway to Platform.

Yeah, I have to credit ollie for the song-as-map-name concept. I was looking for some stairway-themed name, and really, it's the most obvious one.

[ollie]

Originally Posted by dok

Yeah, I have to credit ollie for the song-as-map-name concept. I was looking for some stairway-themed name, and really, it's the most obvious one.

Gimme Three Steps? Though it would be better if the song was called Gimme Three-and-a-Half Steps, I suppose.

Nice looking map; I'm looking forward to giving it a try.

EDIT. Looking more closely at the picture, it seems like there are a few impossible battlements on the lowest level---they need hexes to attach to and I don't see them.

EDIT2. I can't download it for some reason---I couldn't do your version of Halfway Up The Downs either; I wonder what's up.

[dok]

Originally Posted by ollie

Gimme Three Steps? Though it would be better if the song was called Gimme Three-and-a-Half Steps, I suppose.

Damn, you're good. I bet you're handy to have at a pub quiz during those match-lyrics-to-song-title questions.

Originally Posted by ollie

Nice looking map; I'm looking forward to giving it a try.

EDIT. Looking more closely at the picture, it seems like there are a few impossible battlements on the lowest level---they need hexes to attach to and I don't see them.

Ah, OK, I get it. Yeah, I'll go in and zap those tonight. Virtualscape isn't very good at correcting battlement placement.

Originally Posted by ollie

EDIT2. I can't download it for some reason---I couldn't do your version of Halfway Up The Downs either; I wonder what's up.

I'm stumped. I'd guess it was my version of distiller, but that can't be it since you were able to open one of my files when it was e-mailed to you. I must be doing something strange/different in my uploading, but I haven't a clue what it could be. Anyway, I'll e-mail you a copy after I fix it.

[dok]

I just very slightly edited the map, to reposition two of the little hills closer to the center of the map.

aaand, I changed the name.

[S1R_ART0R1US]

Wow, looks really interesting. I like the name choice as well.

I like the sides of the castle too, which give you options beyond just storming the front.

[Sokol]

Both maps look great, dok!

[dok]

I've made a remake of LongHeroscaper's Broken Skyline Remake, which is itself a remake of LongHeroscaper's BoV map, Broken Skyline. While both LongHeroscaper's original and his remake used RotV, FotA, and RttFF, this re-remake uses SotM, M:TCB, and RttFF.

[dok]

EDIT: slightly updated version.

I feel I owe the BoV judges a debt of gratitude for rejecting Swamp Helix 5.0. Although I was disappointed, the rejection led me to consider some possible redesigns. One of the redesigns hasn't quite panned out, and would probably end up being a different map with a different name even if it does. But the other redesign worked out much better than I expected, leading to the new version, Swamp Helix 6.2:

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The big change was that I switched the sides the stairs run on. This meant that in stead of tracing a lazy "S" with two 60 degree turns, the platform now makes a hard "Z" with 120 degree turns.

As a result of this change, I was able to cut off the corners of the map, leading to a much smaller footprint. At 28" by 23", The map's footprint (although not its material requirements, of course) would actually qualify it for the Gencon Map contest, with a full hex to spare on the long axis.

The result of that squeeze is that there's a bit more material in play, which allowed me to have a more elevation changes on the non-platform part of the map. I still left four Marvel 7-hexers in the box, but every other stackable terrain hex from the four sets is used. (Marvel was used only for structure -- all asphalt/concrete is capped with roads or columns.)

The reversal of the stairways also led to me extending the stairways into the startzones, so that two level two stairway hexes can start with figures on them. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing given how important contesting the glyphs is in most games. Very few games seem to be a race to the platform on this map.

I made a conscious decision to make all three glyphs be exactly 7 hexes from the start zones, as opposed to earlier versions where the side glyphs were 6 and 8 away from each side. This change, combined with the stairway reversal and the need to make the glyphs inaccesible from the platforms, led to a rearrangement of the middle section of the platform. One major side effect here is that the middle section is harder to reach for flyers. In old versions, Nilfheim or Mimring or Braxas could fly up to either side of the platform in one turn, but now they can only reach their "home" side right away.

Anyway, enough rambling. I'm pretty happy with the re-make, but I need to do more testing. I made a bunch of major changes after building it for the first time, and I'm not sure something else won't bug me about it before I'm done.

EDIT: I just updated from 6.1 to 6.2. The only change is that the trees that were in the middle were moved next to the castle wall. Now all four trees are arranged in a way that reduces LoS to the glyphs, forcing figures into the middle of the board.