5 Lands of Shannara [updated 24 jun 2013]

[Blakkrose]

Map Name:
5 Lands of Shannara

Mapmaker(s):
Blakkrose

Number of Territories:
64

Special Features:
If you own a group of territories you have access to another group of
Extra territories thah can only bombar nearest territories

What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made:
In CC there are a few fantasy maps!!!

The Copyright Agreement

The author retains copyright on their work, and gives Conquer Club permission to use the imagery free of charge, for as long as Conquer Club sees fit on the Conquer Club website. Conquer Club cannot sell, lease, or lend the right to use the images to anyone else. The author swears that their map is their own work, or a legal derivative work and by submitting it, do hereby claim all responsibility for that being true.

Map Image:

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GAMEPLAY

This is a Standard map with several starting neutral territorires (30).

If you own all the Standard territories of a group you get the realative bonus.

If you own a Capital and the relative Standard territories you get an autodeploy of +1 in the the Capital
and you get access to the relative Extra territories

All the Capitals can bombard nearest territories.

If you own a Capital without the all the relative Standard territories you get a malus of -1 in the the Capital

If you own Extra territories without the relative Capital you get a malus of -1 in each Extra Territory owned

If you own all the Extra territories of a group you get another autodeploy of +1 in the the Capital.

From Extra territories you can only bombard nearest territories.
If you dont own the relative Capital you cannot access to the realative Extra territories.


Standard territories:

Elves Lands
El0 - Aborlon
El1 - Baen Draw Pass
El2 - Kensrowe Pass
El3 - Sarandanont
El4 - West Plains
El5 - West Mermidon Plains
El6 - Shroudslip
El7 - Hollows
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TOT 7 + Capital
BONUS 5

Trolls Lands
Tr0 - Skull Mountain (CAPITAL)
Tr1 - Skull Kingdom
Tr2 - Kershalt Territory
Tr3 - West Rock Trolls Land
Tr4 - Kierlak Desert
Tr5 - Breakline
Tr6 - East Rock Trolls Land
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TOT 6 + Capital
BONUS 3

Druids Lands
Dr0 - Paranor
Dr1 - Streleheim Plains West
Dr2 - Streleheim Plains East
Dr3 - Jannisson Pass
Dr4 - Rabbs Plains
Dr5 - Hall of Kings
Dr6 - Valley of Rhenn
Dr7 - East Mermidon Plains
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TOT 7 + Capital
BONUS 4

Dwarves Lands
Dw0 - Culhaven
Dw1 - Upper Anar
Dw2 - Darklin Reach
Dw3 - Olden Moor
Dw4 - Central Anar
Dw5 - Pass of Jade
Dw6 - Culhaven Plains
Dw7 - Lower Anar
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TOT 7 + Capital
BONUS 4

Humans Lands
Hu0 - Tyrsis
Hu1 - Callahorn
Hu2 - Tirfing
Hu3 - Wing Hove
Hu4 - Highlands of Leah
Hu5 - Lowlands of Clete
Hu6 - Battleground Lowlands
Hu7 - Silver River Country
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TOT 7 + Capital
BONUS 3

Total Standard territories: 9+7+8+8+8 = 39


Extra territories
Can only bombard nearest territories:

Elves Lands ---> Forests
Fo1 - Paranor's Woods
Fo2 - Greenoaks
Fo3 - Dun Forest
Fo4 - Black Oaks Forest
Fo5 - Lower Anar Forest
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TOT 5

Trolls Lands ---> Swamps
Sw1 - Malg Swamp
Sw2 - Terraboog
Sw3 - Matted Brakes
Sw4 - Mist Marsh
Sw5 - Mias Mish
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TOT 5

Druids Lands ---> Cities
Ci1 - Grimpen Ward
Ci2 - Shady Vale
Ci3 - Leah
Ci4 - Valfleet
Ci5 - Storlock
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TOT 5

Dwarves Lands ---> Fortress
Fr1 - Pykon
Fr2 - Heaven's Well
Fr3 - Capael
Fr4 - Graymark
Fr5 - Dun Fee Aran
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TOT 5

Humans Lands ---> Lakes
Lk1 - Innisbore
Lk2 - Blue Divide
Lk3 - Myrian Lake
Lk4 - Rainbow Lake
Lk5 - Cillidellan
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TOT 5

Total Extra territories: 5+5+5+5+5 = 25


Total of all Territories: 39 + 25 = 64


CHANGES IN 24 jun 2013

1. Eliminated El2
2. Shorted all territories names in visual order

CHANGES IN 20 jun 2013
Today I've changed the map several times...

1. Created a complete Legend with all the rules,
2. Calculated all the bonuses with the "Copia di CC_MAP_BONUS_CALC.xls" sheet and here is a screenshot of the xls file:
   

   Click image to enlarge.

   

CHANGES IN 17 jun 2013

1. Fo5 eliminated
   Fo6 changed in "Fo5 - Lower Anar Forest"
   
2. Hu4 eliminated
   Hu8 cnahged in "Hu4 - Silver River Country"
   
3. Dw2 eliminated
   Dw9 changed in "Dw2 - Upper Anar"
   
4. DW5 eliminated
   Dw8 changed in "Dw5 - Olden Moor"
   
5. El1 eliminated
   El9 changed in "El1 - Hollows"
   
6. Created "Sw4 - Terraboog"
   
7. Created "Sw5 - Mias Mish"
   
8. Linked new El1 - Hollows" with new "Hu3 - Wing Hove"
   
9. Fr5 moved to the west
   
10. Resized all at 840x800
    
    Now all the Extra groups are composed by 5 territories.

TO DO LIST

Waiting Thenobodies...

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[waauw]

looks nice, though isn't there a way to make the black lines blend in better?
The map itself looks nice, but the black borderlines ruin the landscape

[Blakkrose]

In this phase i'm not working with graphics. I created all graphic before thenobodies told me that the first thing to do is the gameplay.

I'm very interested in graphic works and certainly all the borders will be repainted!

[greenoaks]

if you are still short a name, 'greenoaks' might fit

[Blakkrose]

Maybe... but i need some name taken from the Shannara background, an existent name.
I'll keep this in mind to!

[update of 15 jun 2013]
OK, i use your suggested name.
Thanks

[thenobodies80]

Welcome!

First of all, like I said in my last pm you should resize the map to have something that fits with the current standard sizes, if you need more space...then we will discuss this later but an attempt to a standard size is worth it, imo.

You have 68 territories right now, you said to me you want to reduce them...if my math is not wrong you should have 64 after the changes listed in your pm.
If you look at this list, you can see what are the best numbers that you can use for a CC map, the golden numbers.

If I look at the map I agree that some territories are unnecessary, honestly I would go with the changes you have proposed...we can balance out the drop later with some tricks.
I was thinking about a thing, how do you want the map is played? I mean, do you want a standard map or conquest style map? The standard is a map like classic, where all the territories are given out to players, instead the conquest map is something like feaudal war, where everything starts neutral except a territory or two in which players will start the game.
We can work a bit more on your project if we know what direction you are aiming for.

More suggestion will come soon, but first I want to understand the direction you want to follow with the map and see it a bit smaller.

Nobodies

[Blakkrose]

I can resize the map but i fear the space for explanations (bonuses, bombardments, etc) will be insufficient!

For the Golden numbers i need more info. I dont understand.

The map i want to create is a standard map with several neutral territories: all the capitals and all the extra territories.
So there are anyway 29 neutral territories heavily defended.

[Blakkrose]

Some point in the To Do List are done:

• Fo5 eliminated
  Fo6 changed in "Fo5 - Lower Anar Forest"
• Hu4 eliminated
  Hu8 cnahged in "Hu4 - Silver River Country"
• Dw2 eliminated
  Dw9 changed in "Dw2 - Upper Anar"
• DW5 eliminated
  Dw8 changed in "Dw5 - Olden Moor"
• El1 eliminated
  El9 changed in "El1 - Hollows"
• Created "Sw4 - Terraboog"
• Created "Sw5 - Mias Mish"
• Linked new El1 - Hollows" with new "Hu3 - Wing Hove"
• Fr5 moved to the west
• Resized all at 840x800

Now all the Extra groups are composed by 5 territories.

This is the new map:

Click image to enlarge.

[waauw]

Question: where are you gonna place troopnumbers on this map with some territories too tiny to leave space for both troopnumbers and territory naming?
Maybe you should merge some territories or expand some

Also if you get a -1 for every territory of a land you don't own a castle of, isnt that seriously gonna restrict the game? Seems like you have to build up within your own territory all the time and only move out once you want to invade another person'ts castle.
I think you should loosen up this aspect. It would just lead to stacking games each time and once you lose your castle you're pretty much dead.

[Blakkrose]

thanks for the observatin.
Yesterday i created a new version of the map and i placed all the circles for the army. All work fine but the name remains short as you can see in the map version published!
I use the long name only in the xml file as in the "WWW II Europe" map.

The malus of -1 is a balancement for the tow advanta of bombard nearest territories and the certainty of not to be attacked (sorry for the bad english!)
All the "standard territories" excluding Capital are part of a "continent" and you get a bonus for it!
You can win the game without "extra territories"! These are Extra and give you an extra chance to win but aren't essentials

[waauw]

I'm confused. I don't think I understand. Maybe if you'd integrate some kind of explanation into the map already, that might help.
Which are the capitals? castles or cities? and And all the rest are considered the extra territories?

[Blakkrose]

This is the latest version of the map, unfinished but more usefull to see the standarr and the extra territories, the Capitals and a kind of legend.

Click image to enlarge.

For example: if you get the territories from Hu1 to Hu7 (without Hu0, the Capital) you get a bonus of 3 army (provvisory).
If you get also the control of Hu0, the Captital, Hu0, with the light circle, you get a autodeploy of +1 in the Capital and you can access to your extra territories: from Lk1 to Lk5.
If you get all the extra territories you get another autodeploy of +1 in the Capital.
All the territories of the same group, Capital, standard and extra, have the name with the same color.
Now You understand?
If you get only the standard territories: from Hu1 to Hu7 you can win the game in any case.

[Blakkrose]

I'm confused. I don't think I understand. Maybe if you'd integrate some kind of explanation into the map already, that might help.
Which are the capitals? castles or cities? and And all the rest are considered the extra territories?

Thanks for your post.
I've updated the map and i wish to know your opinion.

[waauw]

ooooh, now I understand. Though I think you have to make a special request if you want to make a map for less than 8 players.
Map itself looks good though and I like the concept, but I'm not sure conditional autodeploy is possible. You might wanna ask an xml expert about that one.

[Aleena]

They need to make a library of the available Function for the game engine with examples and limitations stated. It would make designing the maps easier and faster, plus it would allow the XML experts to focus on possible upgrades instead of answering questions and for map makers a clear reference spot instead of trying to hunt down an xml expert.

[Blakkrose]

CHANGES IN 20 jun 2013
Today I've changed the map several times...

1. Created a complete Legend with all the rules,
2. Calculated all the bonuses with the "Copia di CC_MAP_BONUS_CALC.xls" sheet and here is a screenshot of the xls file:
   
   

   Click image to enlarge.

   

[Blakkrose]

ooooh, now I understand. Though I think you have to make a special request if you want to make a map for less than 8 players.
Map itself looks good though and I like the concept, but I'm not sure conditional autodeploy is possible. You might wanna ask an xml expert about that one.

I asked to Thenobodies80 before starting this map and he told me that all i wrote is possible.
I trust in his words and i'm witing his help.

[Blakkrose]

They need to make a library of the available Function for the game engine with examples and limitations stated. It would make designing the maps easier and faster, plus it would allow the XML experts to focus on possible upgrades instead of answering questions and for map makers a clear reference spot instead of trying to hunt down an xml expert.

Great words.
I wait this guide with trust!

[Bruceswar]

Before you go any further do you have permission to make this map from the original book Author? If not you need to get that ASAP or else CC cannot allow this map.

[Blakkrose]

Before you go any further do you have permission to make this map from the original book Author? If not you need to get that ASAP or else CC cannot allow this map.

First of all thanks for the observation.

I totally redrawn this map with Photoshop; i changed several originals locations and created new ones.
I think that all this changes are enough to "bypass" the copyrights.
This is the original map.

Click image to enlarge.

Do you think my map is too much similar?

In any case i'm waiting the opinion of thenobodies80.

[Bruceswar]

The concept is not of your own. .. so you must get permission from the original author. ...

[greenoaks]

now i see why you were being particular with the place names.

this map can't be made without permission given by the author of the books or whoever holds copyright to them.

[Blakkrose]

Today's changes:

1. Eliminated El2
2. Shorted all territories names in visual order

Click image to enlarge.

[Aleena]

You've done a lot of work, would hate to see it lost....
One of your biggest problems is your naming, a lot of the places not only look the same, and appear to be in the same location, but yet they also seem to have the same name.

Nothing is wrong with making a fantasy theme map... They can not copyright dwarves, humans, druids, elves, ect.. For they are commonly used in all most all fantasy based games. If you change the names and some of the major themes - you should be able to get away with it...

Change major themes like: instead of :
Skull Kingdom - maybe Cross Bone Kingdom and add two bone looking towers that cross over the skull...
Rainbow Lake - Crystal Lake, (still can use the rainbow graphics because it's not in the original - and can be story-lines in with crystal lake as such the lake fractures the day's light into a huge rainbow as if it passes though a crystal ...

I noticed in your drawing "Callahorn" has a huge crack or crevise in it, where in the orginal drawing it does not - so change the name to fit it - Like instead of Callahorn maybe "Calls of Hades" or "Crevise of Doom" - changes like this will make your map stand out and be it's own work instead of that of others..

Once you change all the names, and modify a few locations to make it your own - I think this could pass with out getting permission - but in my opinion - right now how it stands it is too similar - but it can be fixed.

[Bruceswar]

You've done a lot of work, would hate to see it lost....
One of your biggest problems is your naming, a lot of the places not only look the same, and appear to be in the same location, but yet they also seem to have the same name.

Nothing is wrong with making a fantasy theme map... They can not copyright dwarves, humans, druids, elves, ect.. For they are commonly used in all most all fantasy based games. If you change the names and some of the major themes - you should be able to get away with it...

Change major themes like: instead of :
Skull Kingdom - maybe Cross Bone Kingdom and add two bone looking towers that cross over the skull...
Rainbow Lake - Crystal Lake, (still can use the rainbow graphics because it's not in the original - and can be story-lines in with crystal lake as such the lake fractures the day's light into a huge rainbow as if it passes though a crystal ...

I noticed in your drawing "Callahorn" has a huge crack or crevise in it, where in the orginal drawing it does not - so change the name to fit it - Like instead of Callahorn maybe "Calls of Hades" or "Crevise of Doom" - changes like this will make your map stand out and be it's own work instead of that of others..

Once you change all the names, and modify a few locations to make it your own - I think this could pass with out getting permission - but in my opinion - right now how it stands it is too similar - but it can be fixed.

Even with those suggestions he will still need to get permission from the author.