16th Parallel
Creator: mori3 || First Published: 04/12/2012 || Players: 2 || Size: 21x21
Categories: B-Rank, Standard
Rating: 7.25 in 4 ratings
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Comments:
mori3 (04/12/2012 10:35pm):
Nightmares Echo in My Head is a really good map.
Eligitine (04/13/2012 12:13pm):
This map seems really chokey, especially around the corner bases, and due to the terain
and two airports per seide, I feel it might devolve into a mech/bcopter spam.
Mori2 (04/13/2012 03:04pm):
The areas to the left and right of the mid mountains are plenty open enough, and that's where
a significant portion of the contested cities are. The towers areas are chokey so the single
base has a chance to defend it, since otherwise the 2 bases it's fighting could easily manage
an AA/Tank rush to the tower. As such, the fronts become slightly more open just past the
towers, making it difficult to advance past the enemy line as a single base / airport setup.
However, both the airports and the available lander and landing sites lend themselves to
interesting paths to the two middle fronts alongside the mid mountains. In many areas, those
fronts are as wide as 4-5 tiles, and with close proximity to the airports, and easy lander
access for tanks, it would be hard to wall there.

At the same time, the large number of roads, fairly long supply lines, and easy transfer
between most fronts means that while there are areas where mechs and Bcopters will be
useful, they lose their effectiveness in both the mid fronts and the HQ areas, since there are
much faster and more cost efficient ways to get firepower there. Copters will be very solid
on the side fronts early on, though.

As I implied, it's modeled stylistically around Nightmares Echo in My Head, which I think is one
of the better maps on the site, which also has long supply lines mitigated by roads, lots of 0
terrain next to 2 and 3 terrain, a large number of properties, and is generally chokey with the
exception of where the most major instances of fighting occurs. Of course, I'll need to test
this to see if your Mech/Bcopter thoughts are correct or not.
walkerboh01 (04/24/2012 05:04pm):
I really love what you did with the lander route for the weak base, that is so nice. You could
probably afford to deforest a little bit in the center, just to open up slightly more movement
options -- you have enough mountain and water tiles to keep it from turning into tank spam.

Personally, I would like it if you shifted the lone bases over by one space -- the PC base one
space west, for example. That makes it viable to skip capturing the near city to get the 2nd city
in 2 days instead of 3. It makes the capture phase a little smoother and gives the lone base a
slight jump on getting to those contested properties -- I find this to be a nice dynamic in 2v1 base
setups. You might also consider adding a reef to prevent Sami and Drake from being able to get
their transports to the base a turn early.

Overall, I really like this map a ton. It's an 8/10 for me for now, but I can see A-Rank potential if it
plays out well enough.
Mori2 (04/24/2012 09:58pm):
I'll certainly get on those edits after the test game, they seem sensible enough.
walkerboh01 (05/22/2012 05:54am):
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