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Author |
File Description |
Pat Dark Knight |
Posted on 08/01/05 @ 10:28 AM
File Details |
Map Size: |
400x400 (Large) |
Number of Players: |
4 |
Balance: |
Balanced |
Difficulty: |
Normal |
Minimap:
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Winter is over. Spring is here, with summer nearby. The ice and the snow has smoothed out the center ring, which was only remotely acessible. iver have also cracked the cliffs, making its way to the center, while exposing important minerals.
All four castles do not communicate between them very often, and do not have many good relations in the past. They were all restraint to kill off the villager wondering too far from the other castles, but now that they all have acess to the center valley, they can finally reach each other - maybe to establish better realtions between them, or maybe to attack the others...
Good Gaming,
Pat Dark Knight |
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lollard97367 |
Posted on 08/04/05 @ 04:24 AM
Playability: 4
The map plays great and with no major game issues. The reason I didnt give this a five is: I had to start over a couple of times because it takes time to figure out how to play the resources on this map. Getting the farms running right without getting killed all the time takes trial and error!
Balance: 4
Good balance with resources close together and geographically isolated near the center at least in the beginning. The deduction here is because the other lords always seem to be building on your resources on this map. You can prevent this by enclosing your keep by filling in the hole in the crater with castle wall. I ended up with a multilayered bunker wall there with reinforcements. This is a nice and simple way to control your resources. Otherwise, a well done on balance.
Creativity: 5
Keeping with tradition of putting out only well thought-out maps, Pat gets a five here.
Map Design: 5
A Four player map that I would play again because its unique.
Story/Instructions: 5
Just enough story to get the 5. A story that you actually think of when your playing. I played against sheriff, frederick, and phillip on a free for all. I won.
Additional Comments:
The center of the map is the main battlefield and is uneven with streams, trees, and bushes. Nice effect with the hills giving firing positions and causing catapult fire to miss. On one side of my land I proudly built 6 round towers with ballista and shields. This was to blockade the other side. It worked great. None of my battles were a complete win by artillery. I had to go in and finish all of them off after the inital bombardment. In free for all, the computers fought each other but never really got anywhere because the map is nice and big. The map has some wide open spaces to maneuver around, except in the middle. Good map. Oh yeah, one move on this map: Build a little bunker near the opponents iron mines and set a fire ballista in there. Set it to concentrate fire in the center of the iron. As the enemy build mines there, they will catch fire and cause much economy disruption as they are continually destroyed.
[Edited on 08/04/05 @ 04:33 AM]
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Lord Michael I
Staff |
Posted on 12/28/05 @ 08:20 AM
Playability: 4
If you play with some AI's, it's annoying at the begginning because the grab all of yor grasslands, or part of them, the only way to prevent this is enclosing your keep from the beginning
Balance: 5
Very well balanced map, plenty of grass, stone and iron for the 4 players
Creativity: 5
Very creative map! I liked the rivers and the waterfalls
Map Design: 4
Well designed map, all the Ai's castles, except for the sherriff's castle jams up a bit if you put him in the lower part of the map
Story/Instructions: 4
WOW,what can I say... Great story, and this is a comment for all of your storys... There GREAT and very original
Additional Comments:
This map would be great in multiplayer because you have to protect your farmers from pesky archers of your enemy |
paves |
Posted on 02/13/06 @ 10:42 PM
the only reason i gave creativity a 4 is because almost all these maps in skirmish are just things that focus on the middle.. sry i really wnated to give you a 5 ut i couldnt..
my overall review?
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...i love you
but really i LOVED THIS MAP!!!just had to say GREAT work man.. |
HGDL v0.8.2 |
Rating |
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4.6 | Breakdown |
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Playability | 4.3 | Balance | 4.7 | Creativity | 4.7 | Map Design | 4.7 | Story/Instructions | 4.7 |
Statistics |
Downloads: | 3,117 |
Favorites: [] | 0 |
Size: | 494.31 KB |
Added: | 08/01/05 |
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