Target acquired!!!
Creator: Minstrok || First Published: 11/02/2023 || Players: 4 || Size: 30x30
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Comments:
Minstrok (11/02/2023 07:21pm | Edited: 11/14/2023 11:23am):
Hey all! This is my first map and I hope it is balanced (I know... Who doesn't?!).
The idea behind this map is to have varied fronts (land, sea, air) between each neighbouring
faction following the diagonals
of the map. Another front between the four factions would be at the center for the control of
towers. Ideally, that would allow
good synergy between naval, air and land units, also hopefully, balancing different COs.
This map is intended to be played with Fog of War (FoW). Hopefully forests and reefs provide
"interesting" indirect unit
battles while granting the possibility to hide in the FoW and launch a surprise landing or just get
a good vision spot.

For FTA, I just provided a T-copter for each faction but place further away from each HQ. Since
only a T-copter can allow for
expansion, I hope it makes sense. I am really bad at FTA mitigation so please advise for
something better!

Please try it and tell me about FTA or any obvious advantage to any CO.
Any feedback is welcomed! Good luck!
Minstrok (11/03/2023 04:03am):
Background:
Since millions of years ago, when this old volcano's caldera collapsed and let the water in, the Target islands have been
shrouded in fog and mysteries. Naturally, the fauna and flora adpated, creating a rich ecosystem and soon the first settlers
came. They were poor but the nature here provided for their every need. They expanded within the islands, setting different
tribes and trading with each others. Using pebbles and small seashells as currency, they quickly turned to a much rarer and
strange material. It was a dense and hard metal that is also transparent in a weird way. If you were to hold a coin made of
this material in your hand, you would see through it as if there was a hole in your very own hand! For thousands of years
this metal had been used for trading when a powerful individual (most likely a sort of king according to the legend) asked for
all coins to be brought back to him for "accounting" purposes. Soon enough, the king asked his most talented smith to melt
the coins and make him a suit of armour out of it. Right after, the king disappeard in its suit of invisibility, never to be seen
ever again...

Nowadays, those peacecul islands have grown economically and only the legend of this invisibility armour remains from
those past times. Archeologists come and go, unravelling the past life of the first settlers, their habits and cultural beliefs...

Until one day an exploring team found the body of the king and its armour while walking at the entrance of a small cave,
searching for cave paintings in a new area. The leader tripped and fell on flat ground and soon everyone had a laugh about
him... until everyone else also tripped at the exact same spot, right on the armour! Eager for international fame, the team
publish their discovery and soon the world knew that this material is not a legend anymore. But what if there were more?
What if the settlers only collected the pebbles they could find on the beaches, here and there, after thousands and
thousands of years? There should certainly be more to be mined both on land and at the bottom of the sea? Can you
imagine all the uses for that material? For science, of course but also... for WAR!

Today, in the fog covered Target islands, starts the war that will shape the future of what might be world domination. Your
nation counts on you, Soldier!



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