Red Ball Espresso
Creator: Mori || First Published: 04/17/2011 || Players: 2 || Size: 20x15
Categories: B-Rank, RBC Playable, Standard
Rating: 8.29 in 7 ratings
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Comments:
Mori (04/17/2011 08:51pm | Edited: 04/19/2011 04:03pm):
Tribute to a fairly generic but quite functional map from CoH:
http://www.companyofheroes.com/maps/red_ball_express

Will it actually work for AWBW? Not sure. Creative liberties were taken. There's enough
properties to support the bases, towers might get removed, three fronts are fairly split up as
to replicate Red Ball-style play. Bases are probably more cut off than they should be.

Middle is supposed to be cut off by forests to simulate prebuild sandbag/wire lines on the
original Red Ball, rivers in place of hedgerows. Towers in place of key defensive buildings.

Advice and crits are always appreciated.

Edit: I was actually going to go back and remove a significant amount of road coverage on
the map, but someone apparently gave this a 9 so idk if I should change it. It'd be nice if they
said why they gave it a 9 though as opposed to just dropping by and picking a number, as
much as I do appreciate random good ratings.
walkerboh01 (06/11/2011 03:15pm):
I like it! The only thing that jumps out at me that can be improved is the amount of
cities clustered in the center of the map. Maybe remove a city or two out of those two
clusters of four cities each.
Mori (09/13/2011 09:09am):
Oh hey how's it going. Took me over 3 months to move like 4 tiles somehow but it's edited
now. This is definitely one of my favorite maps that I have made. Thanks again for the
feedback.
Mori (10/29/2011 05:03pm | Edited: 11/25/2011 03:07pm):
Both losing and winning matches on this map when both of those things should be
happening. This map is a tremendous amount of fun.

Played a surprisingly fun Lash vs Koal. I honestly expected the match to go far in Lash's
favor, and while she did win, the game went on for over 20 days without ever stalemating,
lots of pushes back and forth on all 3 fronts. Fun terrain.

Getting some more games in on it to hopefully offset the fact that Blue Moon hasn't lost yet,
because balance-wise I don't see any reason for that to be happening, just coincidence that I
ended up winning as BM a lot (Or losing as OS). Looks silly though.
Mori2 (05/22/2012 09:11pm):
This is an 8. Has a lot of little issues that keep it from being amazing. Will get around to fixing
them someday.
JJEmpire64 (04/26/2018 09:16pm):
Great map, and I had a lot of fun during my match on it. 8/10 for sure.



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