New Maps

by **Coleman** on Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:00 pm

As you may or may not have noticed 5 new maps have made it out of the foundry and are now playable.

A couple of these new maps use rules not yet seen before and may be confusing to new and experienced players alike but provide interesting new game play. As always, if you don't like it you don't have to play those particular maps again.

Age of Merchants
This is probably the most complex map to date. This map has an extremely unusual continent set up designed to emulate the life of a merchant (or pirate) on the high seas.

Battle For Australia
An epic military battle reminiscent of World War II contains a totally unique feature in set neutral territories. Meaning that some countries on this map always start as neutral, regardless of player count. This is a completely new feature in the xml (code that makes the maps work) that lack designed along with several others you may see in future maps.

BeNeLux
This is a new country map, with fairly standard straight forward game play for you to enjoy. Based on a real world location. Includes the somewhat familiar capitals feature.

Caribbean Islands
This is just what it sounds like. Almost. It's set in the colonial period (I think) with a Spanish and English fleet present.

Mongol Empire
I am not quite sure of the historical time frame on this one, but it is as the name suggests. Country names may be awkward at first for the largely Ameri-Euro player base, but it won't take long to figure things out.

by **dominationnation** on Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:04 pm

I am excited to play them all. I wont vote until I geet a few games on them but they all look great. Australlia does have the starting neutrals. I am probably most excited for AoM because of the totally new design.

by **DiM** on Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:23 pm

nice topic presentation coleman.

PS: obviously i voted AoM but if that hadn't been in the poll i would have voted for Battle For Australia.

PPS: probably AoM will have the least number of votes due to it's complexity.

by **dominationnation** on Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:45 pm

DiM wrote:nice topic presentation coleman.

PS: obviously i voted AoM but if that hadn't been in the poll i would have voted for Battle For Australia.

PPS: probably AoM will have the least number of votes due to it's complexity.

on the contrary I like AoM the most because of its complexity. I enjoy all of you new ideas to revolusionize the game of risk!

by **jnd94** on Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:37 pm

I love all of the maps, and want to give my congrats and thanks to all of those woh helped with and made the maps. they are all well-done!

by **DiM** on Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:52 pm

dominationnation wrote:
DiM wrote:nice topic presentation coleman.

PS: obviously i voted AoM but if that hadn't been in the poll i would have voted for Battle For Australia.

PPS: probably AoM will have the least number of votes due to it's complexity.
on the contrary I like AoM the most because of its complexity. I enjoy all of you new ideas to revolusionize the game of risk!

glad you like it.

i'm actually surprised how many games AoM managed to gather. Mongol is the first at this moment with 64, AoM has 49, Carribean and Australia both have 43 and Benelux has 38.

and i haven't managed to even start a game on my map

by **Coleman** on Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:31 am

These topics must not be very popular, lol.

by **silvanthalas** on Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:55 pm

You should have had a "I like them all" or "No preference" option.

While there are some newer maps I won't play often or perhaps not at all (8 Thoughts comes to mind), all of these look like solid maps that I'll continue playing whenever I get the chance.

But I may just have to vote for Age of Merchants after all. I really do like this map, and once you 'get it', it's not that complex after all.

by **Fircoal** on Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:11 pm

I'll need to play them. Too bad, I can't make good graphics, then I'd try again, at making a map. :wink:

EDIT: I probably won't play them for a while, and I'll do it at steady rates, I still remember last time. :shock:

by **The1exile** on Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:36 pm

I <3 carribean islands

by **RobinJ** on Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:06 pm

I watched all these maps nurture in the foundry and it's great to see so many good ones come out all at the same time. I have not yet played any of them but I had always found the Mongol Empire the most interesting of the 5, closely followed by Battle for Australia because it is a novelty. BeNeLux seems like a nice, playable map but it is not an area I am too familiar with so it holds less interest. The Carribean Islands also looked very good. As for AoM, I think I will need to play a game or two on it first until I can even begin to comprehend some of it. Nevertheless, it's a great map!

However, there are also several other great maps in the foundry at the moment. I love the Global Warming map and also the Pearl Harbour map. The Valley of the Kings also looks like it will offer great , or at least different, gameplay. The Persian Empire is looking fantastic too, although it does hold some resemblance to Alexander's Empire. The Italy map is another good one and I simply cannot wait for the Roman Empire map to progress.

Of course, I have forgotten one very important map... WWII Eastern Front. I have been eagerly anticipating it for months but we have managed to argue our way to over page 130 (A foundry record!) Nevertheless, I hope qwert will one day just do what needs to be done so that we can finally play it! :lol:

by **DiM** on Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:59 pm

RobinJ wrote:As for AoM, I think I will need to play a game or two on it first until I can even begin to comprehend some of it. Nevertheless, it's a great map!

pm me and we'll set up a game with tutorial included

PS: i can't help notice AoM is doing very well despite the initial xml problems. as of 5 minutes ago it was the top map (of the 5 quenched) with just 8 games in front of mongol empire

by **oVo** on Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:29 pm

The Great Lakes is a real beauty too.

by **Coleman** on Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:36 pm

oVo wrote:The Great Lakes is a real beauty too.

Yeah, I just included the 5 newest maps that all came out on the same day. I guess you could consider a lot of maps to still be new.

by **Ham** on Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:44 pm

I voted Benelux because the best pickup and play map of them.
The mongol empire is a close 2nd for the same reason.
Battle for australia's conts are strange to me.
I hvnt played AOM yet but it looks very complex.
I havnt played or seen the carribean map.

by **debra79** on Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:43 pm

I haven't gotten around to playing any of them yet, but ME looks the most appealing to me.
*Update* I've just started playing 1v1 on Mongol Empire and the dice have been nothing short of brutal. I'm thinking it's going to put me off playing this map again :lol:

As an aside: DiM why the heck do you keep posting about AoM in a really small font? :S

by **DiM** on Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:36 am

Ham wrote:I hvnt played AOM yet but it looks very complex.

i agree AoM is more complex than the other maps but here's a quote that explains my thoughts on the map:

silvanthalas wrote:But I may just have to vote for Age of Merchants after all. I really do like this map, and once you 'get it', it's not that complex after all.

it's just a matter of carefully reading the legend. once you play a few turns on it you'll see it's not that hard. it's just different.

by **DiM** on Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:37 am

debra79 wrote:As an aside: DiM why the heck do you keep posting about AoM in a really small font? :S

because since AoM is my map my opinions are highly subjective therefore they should somewhat be ignored, hence the small font :lol:

by **gimil** on Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:40 am

welcome back DiM enjoy your weekend out of town?

by **DiM** on Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:54 am

gimil wrote:welcome back DiM enjoy your weekend out of town?

it wasn't for fun :cry:

by **gimil** on Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:56 am

oh right sorry =(

by **yeti_c** on Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:50 am

DiM wrote:
RobinJ wrote:As for AoM, I think I will need to play a game or two on it first until I can even begin to comprehend some of it. Nevertheless, it's a great map!

pm me and we'll set up a game with tutorial included

PS: i can't help notice AoM is doing very well despite the initial xml problems. as of 5 minutes ago it was the top map (of the 5 quenched) with just 8 games in front of mongol empire

Tutorial = Ass Whoopin!!!

C.