Frivolous Endeavors
Creator: Faelurian || First Published: 02/09/2023 || Players: 2 || Size: 31x19
Categories: C-Rank, Gimmick, Mixed Base, Standard
Rating: 6.33 in 3 ratings
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Comments:
Faelurian (02/09/2023 06:08pm | Edited: 04/19/2023 05:25pm):
COs with movement bonus on their landers (Sensei/Drake/Sami/Sturm) can rescue their missiles. Their opponents
nevertheless have the means to have 1 full HP B-Copter escape (if they make the right plays), which can be helpful to free
the bases under arty
fire.

The compensation for their opponent is that their own lander has some utility in the center

Javier totally breaks the map as a single arty built turn 1 from the base near the missiles will kill the opposing arty pretty
efficiently, but even more so because indirects are very good on the map.

Sami might be too strong for tier 2 and viable in tier 1 as she is strong on mixed based maps, gets the movement bonus trick,
and because arty/copters/mechs are pretty good here, the -10% on copters is not such a big deal, and she has good mechs
and normal arties.

For tier 3, Drake seems very good (again, because of the lander trick), but so does Andy because of the high income. So
perhaps the Andy vs Drake match-up can be interesting (whereas on other maps, I feel like Andy just stomps Drake due to
power advantage and very much stronger air)

I don't know if Kindle can compete with those two, but I would guess she does as she is generally quite strong and also
benefits from the mixed base set up, on top of the fact that she can deal with the cruiser with her COP, which does not give
charge to their opponent.

Feedback on those specific match-ups from competent players would be much appreciated :)
And more generally, any feedback, reguardless of skill level. After all, it is more of a "fun" map.

FTA counter :
- extra infantry on the strong side
- lander placement
- extra injured corner infantry placement, which makes it so that p2 has the option to baseskip there turn 1, where doing so as
p1 means losing the extra infantry (not saying this is the right play though, so probably okay)

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Dyslexic Lizard (02/28/2023 07:56pm):
This is a pretty cool map. Loved playing on it with Fog of War!
Dyslexic Lizard (02/28/2023 10:44pm):
This is a pretty cool map. Loved playing on it with Fog of War!
Faelurian (03/02/2023 07:04pm):
Thanks !

I do not play fog, so I do not know how to make good fog maps, but if this plays well in fog too then I'm pleased :)



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