cmgames Map Thread

[cmgames]

I thought I would go ahead and jump on the 'collect all your maps in one thread' bandwagon.

~Z


The Best Of:

Banteay


Requires: 1 BftU + 1 TJ


Disobedience


Can be played as KtA or CtF
Requires: 1 BftU + 1 VW


Riven II



This is still one of my favorite maps. Modified from the original to fix some major problems.
Requires: 2x BftU +glyphs


High Water Mark


I designed this to give the Microcorp Agents a little love.
Requires: 1 SotM, 1 BftU, 1 TJ, + 1 additional hex


Le Dormir du Val


This was my first 'designed' map. It became the root of the 8-player 'The Flooded Plains' map.
Requires: 1 RotV, 1 RttFF


Pinwheel Island


I mostly play HS in a group of three. This is my first 'designed' three-player map.
Requires (as depicted): 2 RotV, 1 VW, 1 TJ, 5 additional 7-hex sand, 115 additional water tiles or 2 lexan water mats
Requires (with substitutions): 1 RotV, 1 VW, 1 TJ, 144 additional water tiles or 2 lexan water mats


Flogging for Two


This is a modification of Piherculis's three-player 'Fulcrum Flogging' map. Modded to be a two-player map.
Requires: 1 RotV, 2 RttFF, 4 single tiles


Raw & Untried:

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Nothing to see here. Move along.

Slightly Playtested - OK so far:

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A Spot of Bother


Requires: 1 BftU + 1 RttFF


Planeswalker Mosaic


Designed to be built with as little other stuff from sets other than the M:tCB set. It uses the gate and some ladders from FotA, and some shadow tiles from BftU. Other than that and the glyphs, it is all from the Marvel set.
Requires: 1 M:tCB, 1 BftU, 1 FotA, 3 std. glyphs

From the 1 x BftU Challenges:

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Seal Rock


Requires: 1 BftU


Race of Doom


Requires: 1 BftU + 1 VW


Des Pond


Requires: 1 BftU + 1 TJ


Dundra


Requires: 1 BftU + 1 TT


Wannok Keep




Requires: 1 BftU + 1 FotA

Other not-so-good maps:

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Crack Creek Gate


Designed for Rÿchean's map-making competition for GenCon 2011. Uses 1 standard glyph and special battlement rules.
Requires: 1 RotV, 1 FotA


Hot Climb


Designed to prevent camping out on the heights. Unfortunately it is extremely prone to lock-down against melee and too range-friendly.
Requires: 1 RotV, 1 VW


ROUSheim


I'm not sure about this one. It still needs more play-testing.
Requires: 2 x SOTM, 2 x BftU, 3 x TJ, 1 x VW


Riven


I really liked this map, but it had some major problems. So it has been superseded by Riven II.
Requires: 2 BftU and some non-treasure glyphs


Icy Crevasse



A last minute entry to one of the ARV map-building contests. Never had time to play test it. Criticized for height in start zone and heavy snow. Easily locked down by pods against melee.

Requires: 2 x BftU, 1x TT

Maps for KublaCon (8-player):

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The Flooded Plains


Used for my 8-player Heroscape extravaganza at KublaCon in 2008, 2009, & 2010.
Requires: 2 RotV, 2 SotM, 2 RttFF, 2 TT, 1 FotA, 1 VW


The Moltarn Mountains


New map for KublaCon 2011.
Requires: 2 RotV, 2 SotM, 2 BftU, 2 RttFF, 2 TJ, 2 TT, 1 FotA, 1 VW

Half-Maps & MOPs:

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These half-maps are designed as 1/2 of a standard two-player board to be matched up with another half-map for 1 v 1 play. Unfortunately, most of these 'full' maps tend to be too big to fit on a standard table, and moving several half-maps around to match them up randomly can be problematic at best.

Swamp Thang


Requires: 1 SotM, 1 VW, 1 TJ


Winter's Gate


Requires: 1 RotV, 1 TT, 1 FotA, 2 2-hex road pieces from RttFF


These modular-maps (MOPs) are designed so that full maps can be built by combining 2 or more together in various rotations. In a tournament, each map consists of four MOPs. See garyLASQs MOPs info, Velenne's thread about MOPS in a Tournament Setting, and the thread about our MOPs tournament.

Platform II




Dragon Tower




I had a ranged, single-base army. Unfortunately, my opponents usually had a Thorian glyph.

Amusements &c.:

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Jack-of-the-Lantern


A silly map designed for its looks rather that its playability or buildability.

[Arcus]

Your maps look very interesting, but it would be nice it the images opened up into something larger so a person could get a better look at them.

[cmgames]

Originally Posted by Arcus

Your maps look very interesting, but it would be nice it the images opened up into something larger so a person could get a better look at them.

Give me a moment. I'm still working on getting them all up. I'll be tweaking and fiddling the layout all week probably.

~Z

[Arcus]

Originally Posted by cmgames

Give me a moment. I'm still working on getting them all up. I'll be tweaking and fiddling the layout all week probably.

~Z

Sorry, I wasn't trying to rush you or anything on your thread. I am constantly fiddling with my own map thread. Come to think of it, how do you add the "Spoiler Alert" tag and button?

[cmgames]

Originally Posted by Arcus

Sorry, I wasn't trying to rush you or anything on your thread. I am constantly fiddling with my own map thread. Come to think of it, how do you add the "Spoiler Alert" tag and button?

Enclose what you want hidden inside a spoiler tag:
(open square bracket)spoiler(close square bracket)
Stuff you want hidden.
(open square bracket)/spoiler(close square bracket)

~Z

[Arcus]

Originally Posted by cmgames

Enclose what you want hidden inside a spoiler tag:
(open square bracket)spoiler(close square bracket)
Stuff you want hidden.
(open square bracket)/spoiler(close square bracket)

~Z

Thank you!

[Shockma Ranyk]

How many road sets does Flogging for Two require? I own two, but I can't tell if it's two or three...

[cmgames]

Originally Posted by Shockma Ranyk

How many road sets does Flogging for Two require? I own two, but I can't tell if it's two or three...

Two. It is in the build instructions, but maybe I'll put the reqs on the OP too.

~Z

[Typhon2222]

Yay, cmgames has a map thread. About time!

I cannot wait to play on Riven. Great way to squeeze everything possible out of a mere 2 BftU's! Innovative design, with the long central shadow rift. And I love the use of the sand for starting zones and only for starting zones, so they're visually distinct. (My Yea Though I Walk uses the same trick.)

It's clear that ranged parked on the heights will enjoy huge firing arcs. But if so, you can stick to the shadowy defenses of the central rift, and sneak up on them from behind! Looks like great fun.

[Arcus]

I like the simplicity of Riven. Are the shadow tiles down the middle playable or are they considered negative space? If they are not playable, can figs still fly over them?

[cmgames]

Originally Posted by Arcus

I like the simplicity of Riven. Are the shadow tiles down the middle playable or are they considered negative space? If they are not playable, can figs still fly over them?

Well, they are terrain tiles, so there should be no reason that they would not be "playable". It's a deeply shadowed crack riven through the surrounding crags. Because it is only one tile wide, the first player to get a fig down that alley can hold the ground pretty well. Get your fig just past the middle and you then have access to the treasure glyphs from below (for your other figs) while the guard is partly hidden by a corner of the canyon.

One drawback is that double-space figs cannot get the treasure glyphs. This has led to some fancy footwork where one hero goes and grabs the glyph and brings it out to where a double-spacer can get to it, then drops it for the big hero to pick up later. Very OM wasteful.

~Z

[Typhon2222]

I'm glad you decided to use Riven at your upcoming KublaCon event, cmg. I'm sure it'll get great feedback.