GenCon 2025 Map Contest - Congrats to Halushia's Grove & Iced Cider!

[MegaSilver]

Hey everyone, Renegade is sponsoring a map contest for GenCon 2025!

Basic rules, each person can submit up to 2 maps.

The maps can only use the new sets by Renegade. There are restrictions on the sets that can be used.

The winner of the contest, as decided by Renegade, will receive $50 in Renegade Store Credit.

Entries are due May 22nd at 11 PM Pacific Time.

Full information for the contest can be found here:

GenCon 2025 Map Contest

GenCon 2025 Map Contest This map contest focuses on just the new terrain sets from Renegade, just in time for GenCon 2025! Renegade is offering prize support for this contest as well! More info below!You may submit up to 2 maps for this contest.Legal Terrain Expansions: Renegade sets: Age o...

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[MegaSilver]

I must note that it's come to my attention that some maps did not meet the qualifications for the contest and thus are unable to win, and will have to be removed from the voting process. I will still have them in the front page for future viewing but they cannot receive any votes.

Full list of non-qualifying maps due to dimensions, including rotation:

• Forgotten Thaw
• Vitrify
• Hidden
• Resonance
• Healing Roots
• Brimstone

Not enough start zones & too many Field Sets:

• Caldera Swamp

Two maps, while at first did not meet the qualifications as listed on VirtualScape, did in fact fit after they are rotated. (One of which was my map!)

Two maps pass dimensions test after rotating them:

• Oasis No More
• Tuff Tropics

I apologize for not noticing these issues earlier and addressing them prior to the submission window closing.


Second order of business, the winner of the community poll will win a Krug Mug!

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[MegaSilver]

Here's my first submission

AEGIS
Sets: LoV, SoV, LJ
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Halushia's Grove
AoA, SwoV, LJ

Here is my first entry!

Taiga
1x BftW, 2x SFoV

Google Drive Build Instructions
Heroscapers Build Instructions
Heroscape.org Map Page

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Here's a bonus photo of the physical build:

Here's my submission!

Map: A Country Mile HSC File
Requirements: 1x AoA, 1x BftW, 1x GaLE

VirtualScape image:

IRL map photo:

Obligatory cat photo (jungles removed because she kept trying to eat them):

Behold, it's alive! My second entry loud and proud with Waters of Valhalla!

Kinsland Spring
1x LoV, 1x WoV, 1x TJ

Google Drive Build Instructions
Heroscapers Build Instructions
Heroscape.org Map Page

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Physical Build:

I figured I'd give it a shot. So here is my entry,

Haukeland Isle Skipping:
x1 AoA Master Set
x1 Water of Valhalla
x1 Laur Jungle.

Google Drive:
PDF New Map 1.

Oasis No More
Requires: 2x Wellspring, 1x Jungle
Build Instructions: Here

Iced Cider
Requires: BftW x1, SFoV x1, LFoV x1
Build Instructions: Here

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Volcan Shards
Requires: 1xAoA, 1xBftW, 1xLFoV
Build Instructions: Here

Tuff Tropics
Requirements:
1x AoA (1x RotV probably possible with only minor alterations)
1x LFoV (or 1x VW+ 1x BtfU for outcrops)
1x Jungle
PDF Build Instructions

? Glyphs represent recommended standard glyph placement.
Brandar represents recommended Treasure glyph placement.
If using LFoV, simply use the 3-hex lava field tiles in place of the 2+1 lava fields on level 3.

Fits within a 26"x 30" rectangular footprint when aligned with the diagonal of the rectangle.
I lack Laur Jungle parts for a truly accurate photograph. The two trees I used are from BftW. If using actual Laur Jungle (or Ticalla Jungle), use the two shorter trees, doesn't really matter which goes on which side.

My 2nd Entry

Nimhe
Sets: SoV X2, LJ X1, BftW X1

Here's my first submission:

Sunny Villa

Sets required:
1x AoA
1x BffW
1x GaLE
1x LoV

Submission 1:

Convection
Requires 1x AoA, 1x LFoV, 1x GaLE

Submission 2:

Vapor
Requires 1x BftW, 1x SFoV, 1x LFoV

This is my second entry.

Ruins at Barrenspur Foothills.
x1 AoA Master Set
x1 Lava Fields.
x1 Laur Jungle.

Google Drive:
PDF New Map2.

Here's my second submission:
Bunkered
AoA, BftW, LJ

Entry #2:
Cavern of Wonders
Build Instruction PDF
1x AoA
1x LoV
1x BftW
1x Swamp
1x Snowfields
IRL build with proxies for brush/trees/larger snow hexes since I don't have the recent Swamp or Snow sets.

Cutaway view of the Cavern interior

Spoiler Alert!

Start zones are the back two hexes on left and right.

Additional information:
The water in the cave mirrors all asymmetries due to the structural pillars to keep the sides roughly the same. The cave is fully navigable by all AoA non-huge non-dual-hex figures except for the recessed ice tile on the top left, which a few can't quite fit into.

Everything out of the cave is mirror symmetry.
I really tried to make it fully symmetric, but it just wasn't doable to do that and still have the heavy wall of LoS blockers preventing falling from the top.
That said, in spite of it's unorthodox nature, it is designed to be a competitive map, with the extreme hight area blocked so so significantly from the cave below that the difference doesn't matter much. The glyph spot in the cave is behind the central support pillar so you can't even plink it from range/height outside the cave.
Technically the clearance is 8 (you're on top of a half-height ice/water layer, but since the overhead ceiling is hollow, height 8 figures like Irene fit just fine.
Q11, Sonlen (AoA) and Thyraxis Dragoon fit in the cave too!

I made a minor edit to the map. (V1.1) The Wellspring Water tile on which the glyph was originally placed is now just ice.

Dinky map comin' thru!
Hedge Maze
Requires: 1x AoA, 1x BftW, 1x GaLE, and two random glyphs.
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This one's been in the works for a bit, perfect time to share it.

Rhombus
Requires: x1 AoA

 

[MegaSilver]

Section 2 of Map Entries:

TarHaar's Map Submissions

Liquefy
(1x Battle for the Wellspring, 1x The Snow Fields of Valhalla, 1x The Swamps of Valhalla)

Vitrify
(1x Lands of Valhalla, 1x The Lava Fields of Valhallla)

Here's my second entry!

My apologies for now having an irl pic for this one. I did take one the other day, but forgot part of it in the build
edit: it has been fixed to comply with the Contest Rules!

Charmed Ridge

Sets required:
1x AoA
1x BffW
1x GaLE
1x LoV

Here are my submissions!

Alone
1x Age of Annihilation, 1x Lava Fields of Valhalla

Voices
1x Age of Annihilation, 1x Snow Fields of Valhalla

Forgotten Thaw
Requires: AoA x1, SFoV x1
Normal Snow
Slippery Ice
Build Instructions: Here
Real Life Pictures here, here, and here.

These are Owlman's Submissions:

1000 Frozen Souls
1x AoA, 1x BftW, 1x SFoV

Owlman entry

Ruins of Silaria
1x AoA, 2x SFoV

Lost Alloy
Build instructions

1xAoA 1xLFoV
2 face-up Power glyphs
Works better for high figure limit formats (18+ figure limit)

I was trying to post a new map of mine, called Yellow Isle, but I'm still toying around with the aesthetics and haven't settled on it yet. So I'm going to submit my most recent upload, Hidden, as well as my favorite of the maps I've made so far this year, Resonance.

Hidden:

Download

Resonance:

Download

Hidden uses 1 AoA and 1 SFoV, and Resonance just uses 1 AoA.

Sandbar Skirmish - Updated w/ Glyphs and changed illegal tree placement

Sets Required:
Age of Annihilation Master x2
Lands of Valhalla x1
Battle for the Wellspring x1
Waters of Valhalla x1
Groves at Laur's Edge x1

QUANDARY is my submission. Uses 1xAoA, 1xSoV, 1xGaLE. 2 power glyphs and 2 treasure glyphs, 24 hex start zones are rock+water or sand+water.
Virtualscape file: Quandary.hsc
Build Instructions: Quandary_v1.pdf

Caldera Swamp is my submission.

It uses two random face down glyphs and the glyph of Rannevig
Sets Used: AoA, BftW, SoV x2, LFOV x2

Some last minute submissions

Healing Roots
1 x BftW, 2 x SoV

and

Brimstone
1 x BftW, 1 x SoV, 1 x LFoV

 

[caps]

Does "limit of 2 terrain packs total" apply only to the Snow, Lava, Swamp, etc. expansions or is that meant to apply to the entire list?

Is there an overall limit for number of sets used?

 

[MegaSilver]

Does "limit of 2 terrain packs total" apply only to the Snow, Lava, Swamp, etc. expansions or is that meant to apply to the entire list?

Is there an overall limit for number of sets used?

Just to those 3 sets.


No overall limit

 

[caps]

Any restriction against submitting existing maps?

 

[superfrog]

Renegade didn’t offer prizing for a community winner? That’s hugely disappointing.

 

[MegaSilver]

Any restriction against submitting existing maps?

No restrictions there

 

[MegaSilver]

Renegade didn’t offer prizing for a community winner? That’s hugely disappointing.

Same

 

[Nukatha]

Just to those 3 sets.

No overall limit

For the sake of having an example, it looks to me like a map with the following components would be technically permitted:
>1x AoA
>1x BftW
>1x Lands
>1x Waters
>1x Jungle
>2x in any combination of Lava/Swamp/Snow
As long as it fits in the 26"x 30" footprint.
That's a huge hex budget.
Virtualscape hex limits for reference. With the one alignment, that's 17x16 hexes, and the other, 14x19

Spoiler Alert!

Spoiler Alert!

 

[MegaSilver]

For the sake of having an example, it looks to me like a map with the following components would be technically permitted:
>1x AoA
>1x BftW
>1x Lands
>1x Waters
>1x Jungle
>2x in any combination of Lava/Swamp/Snow
As long as it fits in the 26"x 30" footprint.
That's a huge hex budget.
Virtualscape hex limits for reference. With the one alignment, that's 17x16 hexes, and the other, 14x19

Spoiler Alert!

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Spoiler Alert!

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Yeah, I don't recommend doing that lol

 

[Sir Heroscape]

Here's my first submission

AEGIS
Sets: LoV, SoV, LJ

 

[Scapemage]

For 3-hex ice, swamp water, and molten lava, what is the preferred approach for Virtualscape? I have Personal Tiles, but since you can't make liquid tiles in VS, they are level 1 and make the map render look funky. Is it preferred to do it this way, or to use more single-hex tiles which look proper in the render?

 

[caps]

For 3-hex ice, swamp water, and molten lava, what is the preferred approach for Virtualscape? I have Personal Tiles, but since you can't make liquid tiles in VS, they are level 1 and make the map render look funky. Is it preferred to do it this way, or to use more single-hex tiles which look proper in the render?

I just do three 1-hex tiles and leave it to the reader's imagination to figure out where they go. You have to mentally track how many 1-hex tiles vs 3-hex tiles you have.

 

[Battlebrow]

Here's my first submission

AEGIS
Sets: LoV, SoV, LJ
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Love the color profile on this one!

 

[Shurrig]

Just so happened to be working on this one already:

Halushia's Grove
AoA, SwoV, LJ

 

[Scapemage]

Here is my first entry!

Taiga
1x BftW, 2x SFoV

Google Drive Build Instructions
Heroscapers Build Instructions
Heroscape.org Map Page

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Here's a bonus photo of the physical build:

 

[MegaSilver]

Thank you for taking a physical photo, saves me time later

 

[Robber]

Here's my submission!

Map: A Country Mile HSC File
Requirements: 1x AoA, 1x BftW, 1x GaLE

VirtualScape image:

IRL map photo:

Obligatory cat photo (jungles removed because she kept trying to eat them):

 

[Scapemage]

Behold, it's alive! My second entry loud and proud with Waters of Valhalla!

Kinsland Spring
1x LoV, 1x WoV, 1x TJ

Google Drive Build Instructions
Heroscapers Build Instructions
Heroscape.org Map Page

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Physical Build:

 

[iceman3317]

I figured I'd give it a shot. So here is my entry,

Haukeland Isle Skipping:
x1 AoA Master Set
x1 Water of Valhalla
x1 Laur Jungle.

Google Drive:
PDF New Map 1.

 

[MegaSilver]

Oasis No More
Requires: 2x Wellspring, 1x Jungle
Build Instructions: Here

 

[caps]

Iced Cider
Requires: BftW x1, SFoV x1, LFoV x1
Build Instructions: Here

 

[caps]

Volcan Shards
Requires: 1xAoA, 1xBftW, 1xLFoV
Build Instructions: Here