The Silver Mines of Potosi (DMC 64)
Creator: Dr Nasty || First Published: 05/24/2025 || Players: 2 || Size: 23x21
Categories: B-Rank, Fog of War
Rating: 0 in 0 ratings
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Comments:
Dr Nasty (05/24/2025 01:18pm):
Map is for fog of war
MontySigurdson (05/25/2025 06:05pm | Edited: 05/25/2025 06:07pm):
I think 5 bases per player is a bit overkill, especially given the fact that this is a Fog map (and thus has slower gameplay anyway). Each player will be lugging around 35-40 units before the fighting even starts which is a lot. Maybe 4 bases for each player is enough? I'd imagine this would be quite exhausting to play otherwise. Though that isn't pertinent to the map's balance so I'll not let it influence the rating.

The bigger problem is that the setup (the most important contested properties + HQs are all in or near the corners) makes frontshifting not very feasible, especially combined with the middle that is rather closed-off. If you've commited an unit to a corner, you have to keep it there usually, especially when enemy units are blocking the 1-tile-chokes around the middle. So I'd say this is likely to result in an Com Tower + HQ race in the NW and SE corners every game since if you let the enemy have 3 Com Towers, you're in a very tough spot.
Dr Nasty (06/07/2025 05:32am):
Change log: now it's a 4b map, also I increased the number of fronts and moved the airport position



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