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by **natty dread** on Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:04 am

Map Name: War of Wizards
Mapmaker(s): natty_dread
Number of Territories: 138 land territories, 8 wizards, 40 spells == 186 total
Special Features: Losing conditions, bombardments, one-way assaults, collection bonuses, limited region bonus, ranged attacks, killer neutrals, decays, autodeploys, conquest gameplay
What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made: I've long wanted to make a fantasy-themed map, and this map here is my first attempt at one. The map has unique gameplay that is very complex and strategically challenging for various game types. The gameplay and bonuses depend on whether you start with a wizard of Dark or wizard of Light, and you have to adjust your strategy accordingly.

Map Image:

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And with neutrals

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show: old versions

Each player starts with 1 wizard and his/her corresponding tower. The wizard can 1-way his/her own tower, but the tower can't assault back to the wizard. You need to bombard other wizards through the Temple of Fury which resets to 70 and can be bombarded by the level 5 spells. If you lose your wizard you're out of the game.

Your bonuses and spells depend if you start as a Wizard of Light or Wizard of Dark. You only start with 1 wizard and you can't take other wizards, so you're stuck with the side you start with and have to adjust your strategy accordingly.

by **isaiah40** on Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:09 pm

Here is your very first stamp!!

by **natty dread** on Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:02 am

Thanks.

I'll try to get territory labels done today.

I have also yet to decide how I want to handle the standard territory bonus for this.

by **natty dread** on Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:18 am

Territory labels

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by **natty dread** on Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:03 pm

Slight tweak on the labels- I changed all NW/NE to N and SW to S, so there won't be any confusion - there's already SE territories for those around the Seketh tower.

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by **Industrial Helix** on Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:36 pm

This is pretty cool... but I'm a tad confused at Holy Wraith... do you mean Enemy Towers rather than Dark Towers?

by **natty dread** on Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:37 pm

Nope... it bombards all dark wizards' towers, similarly as Poison Sending bombards all light wizards' towers.

Note that you don't have to bombard/assault someone's tower to eliminate them, and losing your tower is not the end of the world since you can always retake it.

by **AndyDufresne** on Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:34 am

I like the look that is map is going for I think. For gamplay, it is probably a map that I wouldn't play often, but it doesn't really look too complicated. It reminds me overall of some of old computer games I use to play back in the day. Hm,

Keep it up, I think I'll be back.

--Andy

by **cairnswk** on Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:55 am

Natty, what is the icon on TA4?

by **natty dread** on Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:04 am

cairnswk wrote:Natty, what is the icon on TA4?

It's a ferry.

Yeah... I'll probably redraw most of the icons after the gameplay is done, to get them in a more consistent style.

AndyDufresne wrote:I like the look that is map is going for I think. For gamplay, it is probably a map that I wouldn't play often, but it doesn't really look too complicated. It reminds me overall of some of old computer games I use to play back in the day. Hm,

The largest inspiration for the map was a 90:s PC game called Master of Magic. Maybe you played it sometime...

by **Industrial Helix** on Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:09 am

natty_dread wrote:Nope... it bombards all dark wizards' towers, similarly as Poison Sending bombards all light wizards' towers.

Note that you don't have to bombard/assault someone's tower to eliminate them, and losing your tower is not the end of the world since you can always retake it.

Ah right, I missed the second lower box of wizards... cause I was staring at the towers and thinking "they're all kinda dark though..." No problems here anymore

by **AndyDufresne** on Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:32 am

natty_dread wrote:
AndyDufresne wrote:I like the look that is map is going for I think. For gamplay, it is probably a map that I wouldn't play often, but it doesn't really look too complicated. It reminds me overall of some of old computer games I use to play back in the day. Hm,

The largest inspiration for the map was a 90:s PC game called Master of Magic. Maybe you played it sometime...

I may have, I can't recall. I know I've played a few titles by Microprose. And in general, and a number of fantasy-genre games from the 90's as well!

--Andy

by **Industrial Helix** on Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:30 pm

Stickied for now

by **natty dread** on Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:12 am

Thanks.

I made a new gnoll icon which is better than the old but I'm not sure if I'm still quite satisfied with it

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ps. apparently, gnolls are cross-breeds between gnomes and trolls?! Who knew.

by **Flapcake** on Sat Oct 29, 2011 6:25 pm

Hi Natty. cool map your making, I love that ancient fantacy world.

My comment atm. The Heim tower color, I find it very simmelar to the landbase color but ofc. all the ohter towers are pretty clear so thers no doubth of who is who, it just look weird.

Is it deliberately that your symbol is not a pentagon? I imagine myself that this is for ethical reasons, It would however look more cool with the pentagon.

I think your awesome map is ready for a stamp 8-)