Darkling Woods
Creator: Daddymacsac || First Published: 11/19/2023 || Players: 2 || Size: 17x24
Categories: A-Rank, Global League, Mixed Base, Standard
Rating: 5.28 in 36 ratings
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Comments:
Daddymacsac (11/19/2023 11:46pm | Edited: 11/20/2023 11:30pm):
4b+2a mixed base map for standard play. Equal income = 23k.
Rock Golem (07/26/2024 01:20am):
Don't worry too much about the towers. You can take it back, be patient. And send 2 infantry. Also Sami doesn't need to baseskip she can block with infantry.
Cannonfodder449 (07/29/2024 11:48am):
the airports make this map impossible
Azarel (07/29/2024 04:54pm):
the airports make the map interesting, usually the weak base is the base without airport, but here both lone bases have an airport so there's no clear target for base killing, both are options
Rorolina Frixell (08/08/2024 09:33am):
My only complain is that the map is vertical
I play on a horizontal PC monitor...
MrBlaze420 (08/10/2024 10:26am):
I don't know why people bother making vertical maps, if you like them so much ask for a feature to invert Y and X axis (this
would also be good for maps like these and normal people that don't like vertical maps)
Banjoey (08/11/2024 11:53pm):
Phone players rejoice. Vertical maps!
Raedel (08/12/2024 12:38am):
I respect not having any shoals, but no roads either?
Koal would be a bolder pick here than Sonja.
ZhugeTsuki (08/24/2024 05:38pm):
You can totally cheese the towers with copters.

If someone builds a bcopter on their airport close to your tower, you only have 1 turn to prevent them from locking your tower
down.

The copter is only vulnerable for one turn if it moves directly from the airport to the mountain adjacent to a silo and forest. If
you make an AA in response to the copter being built, the copter will be on the mountain and your AA wont have the
movement to kill it. This means that if you don't actively physically block the opponent or preemptively commit 8k gold to the
area you are constantly under threat of the tower being unable to be captured unless you build a MISSILE.

Because the map is designed the way it is, you can't use your own airports to respond to this. Your only airports lie on the
opposite side of your opponents bases - theyd have to be able to fly through them without being destroyed to get to the
tower. So the only thing you can do is build a missile or hope youre able to fly a copter past your opponents bases to unlock
the tower.
dision (10/16/2024 10:23am):
"I don't know why people bother making vertical maps, if you like them so much ask for a feature to invert Y and X axis (this
would also be good for maps like these and normal people that don't like vertical maps)"

This is an excellent idea, seconded
BlueWind (12/19/2024 11:46am):
Too easy to block off comm tower in mountains with bcopter.
BlueWind (12/23/2024 01:03pm):
Playing some more of this, I love all the potential fronts it creates. It reallys gets your brain thinking of where to best spend
funds and how to position your units to cover the most flanks.
Hugtern (01/28/2025 08:08am):
"I don't know why people bother making vertical maps, if you like them so much ask for a feature to invert Y and X axis (this
would also be good for maps like these and normal people that don't like vertical maps)"

A great idea indeed, should be seriously investigated if it possible!
Daddymacsac (01/30/2025 09:15pm):
By popular demand:

https://awbw.amarriner.com/prevmaps.php?maps_id=169083
SledgeHammer (03/31/2025 12:00pm):
its really chokey, and unfortunately an awful map because of it
Ahahsoboo (05/14/2025 02:18pm):
Why do 8/10 mixed base maps suck so bad? “Let’s make a map where movement is crippled and you have to completely
rely on copters and AA oh an 4 com towers why not but one of them can be copter locked”
So much fun



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