Island Mixed Base
Creator: BusterBeachside || First Published: 09/01/2024 || Players: 2 || Size: 20x20
Categories: B-Rank, Mixed Base, Standard
Rating: 6.00 in 2 ratings
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Comments:
BusterBeachside (09/01/2024 09:20pm):
4b1a Mixed Base for Standard.
This map is imported from TinyWars (Website for playing Days of Ruin). It has a bit of a history.
Long ago, someone on the TW Discord noticed that the site accepts Emoji in text fields for things like map names. I'm a
prolific mapper for TinyWars, so they reached out to me letting me know about it and said I should make a map with an all-
emoji name as a joke. I was wanting to get better at mixed base mapping at the time, so this map ended up with the name.
AWBW sadly doesn't allow emoji in map names, but the original name was "🏝🔀🏭". I feel like this is fairly easy to figure
out just by studying the map for a moment, but a lot of people couldn't figure it out. But the map made it into TinyWars'
ranked pool, which made it impossible to avoid talking about, so this became "The Emoji Map" in public discourse. XD

As for the map itself, I hadn't made a lot of mixed base maps and wanted to figure out a good one. I know Caustic Finale is
one of the most popular MB maps of all time, so I took heavy inspiration from it. By comparison, I added airports and placed
contested corner areas. The Towers are relatively safe, but can easily be sniped if you aren't careful. The SW cities are
river-locked meaning it's a foot soldier fight, but artillery/rockets could end up getting involved, too.
It was partially built with DoR's Bikes in mind (5-move infantry on slightly buffed Tires), with some intentionally placed Bike
chains and forests to slow them, but the map shouldn't play much differently without them.
I'm open to suggestions!
BusterBeachside (09/08/2024 04:32pm | Edited: 09/08/2024 04:34pm):
Added some obstacle courses to slow tanks and opened up the SW river area. I'm finding
AWBW maps very commonly utilize
obstacle courses lol. We Stan obstacle courses.



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