Conquer Club

The skulls were actually accidental: I didn't even notice them myself until I started coloring in the continents.

When I add the sidebar about bonus armies to the graphic, should I also include a short note explaining the countries and borders?

Yeah, if you don't the bug Report and Map Foundry forums will be inundated with "WTF posts"...

Great map btw. Where'd you get the idea?

I'm not quite sure. I was thinking about how all the existing maps seemed fairly mundane, and I was wondering what kind of non-standard map I could design without a lot of drawing skill (and without pirating images)... and it just sort of came to me.

Speaking of which, what's the general opinion (or more importantly, lack's opinion) of using images that are available on the Internet, without any explicit "please do not steal our pictures" notice?

It's fairly easy to get around that. just tweak the image in Photoshop or something. If you've altered the image, it's not their picture anymore, it's something fresh.

Quite a unique idea, I'd be willing to play a game or two on it, but there's just something I like about taking over "countries" and continents. But it's still an imaginative piece of work, and hopefully it will inspire others to look for more unique visions into the RISK world.

--Andy

It has certain lack of appeal to me... Conquering real countries and continents is better than conquer "25 across" (my opinion). Anyway, it can be playable, but its a bit confusing to know what is really a country. There are isolated squares with a different color... what this mean? What continent / country they belong? Its very strange parts of countries that shuffles with other countries. And where will you put the numbers? Are there 1 across and 1 down?

Im confused. I think its imaginative, but it will not have that much use... its very strange and unusual.

Those squares are the borders between two words that are two different colors. Since each color represents a different continent, that effectively makes them the borders between continents.

For example, 10-Across is part of the Red continent, and it's five letters long. Its last letter is also the middle letter of 8-Down, part of the Purple continent. Because the two words cross, 10-Across and 8-Down border on each other. A player who controls the Red continent can make inroads into Purple by attacking 8-Down from 10-Across.

Just like in a crossword puzzle, 1-Across and 1-Down are two different words (and thus, two different countries). Since they cross each other (in the upper-left square of the grid), they also share a border.

This map is now live!

As I said, much more difficult to read than a normal map.
This will surely be the less used map of all Conquer Club

I think once maps start to become more unique and develop outside of standard geographic regions, it will hold it's own. And plus, who likes to play that Brazil map? (just kidding).

--Andy

just soes everyone knows, 15 across cannot be attacked....

I just discovered that myself. Thanks for the report. I've sent a fixed version of the XML to lackattack.

I think the map is great! All those years of doing crosswords make me feel right at home, but it still hurts my head to have to think differently.....

One more issue..I cannot fortify OUT of 43 accross......great work!

I was actually playing with a floorplan / map layout of a large mall....another idea.

Thanks. Another fix has been emailed to lack.

The mall sounds like a fun idea: it reminds me of Dawn of the Dead. I suppose that in a map where each "country" was a room, each "army" would really just be a single person...

I put up the fixes Jota sent me.

38-Down is isolated. Hitting 36-Across is considered an illegal attack move and 41-Across doesn't appear in the dropdown menu.

Thanks. Another update has been sent to lackattack.

great idea, not sure it would be so very playable, but great idea indeed.

Hey Twill, let's play a game on this one and find out how playable it really is!

Ahh, lack updated. It really hurt to have a 7 army that was trapped in a no card game.

Just for the heck of it I made a really ugly version of the map that was a little clearer on showing country borders. The bottom continent colors look too light though.

Maybe the squares with numbers ("names") should have little arrows pointing to the right direction of that country, as in direct crosswords. It will help, I believe. The map would be more readable...

I've never seen a crossword puzzle that had arrows...

Neither have I.... I like the way it looks now, the direction of the number should be fairly obvious if you are paying attention.

zip_disk wrote:Just for the heck of it I made a really ugly version of the map that was a little clearer on showing country borders.

Och ah, she be wearin' tha clan tartan!

Jota..I wanted to say that I LOVE this map ... thank you for your hard work-