Meteoric
Creator: Walker Boh || First Published: 06/20/2012 || Players: 2 || Size: 23x24
Categories: B-Rank, Fog of War
Rating: 6.00 in 3 ratings
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Comments:
Walker Boh (06/22/2012 06:16pm | Edited: 09/18/2022 10:59pm):
This map has been completely overhauled for Fog of War as of 9/17/2022.

The main point of interest is the pre-deployed black bomb for each side. It can be freed in 3 turns when the artillery breaks the
seam, but will still be trapped behind the pipe. However, it can explode to disrupt the opposing army by:
- Damaging something on a base/airport;
- Interrupting the capture of an early property;
- Contesting the tower or damaging the opponent's outer units in the mid-game.

The black bomb has no vision past the pipe (vision = 1), so if you blow it up early on, it is a completely blind shot.

The black bomb will quickly run out of fuel if not supplied by an APC. There is an APC on each side so you have flexibility. But
the APCs are also on a timer, as they can be chipped down for 1HP per turn by the enemy infantry. If you don't want your APCs
to die, you can heal them for 1HP per turn with the black boat -- but then you will be paying up to 1k per turn in repair costs for
the privilege. If you don't keep the APC alive, eventually the inf will be able to capture the neutral cities that the APCs are sitting
on.
blozzee (12/13/2012 05:15pm):
Might else getting lander or bboat rather than breaking the pipe seam. The idea didn't
work at all.
Walker Boh (06/26/2013 09:19pm):
Sounds to me like the idea works exactly as intended. If your feedback is that a lander is
obviously more optimal than breaking the pipe seam, then maybe I could look into tweaking it.
But generally I think you're 100% wrong.
Xmo5 (11/19/2013 11:46am):
You wouldn't, by any chance, happen to be referencing an awesome racing game, would you?
walkerboh01 (12/24/2014 03:24am):
Nope!
walkerboh01 (12/26/2014 02:43am):
- Fronts badly imbalanced (make it viable to capture neutral base with either base? Adjust
which bases allow access to center?).

- Poor positioning of contested properties. Only contested properties are in the center -
combined with deployment routes and sparse property density on outskirts, creates essentially
a one-front battle.
MorganLeah (01/03/2015 12:48am):
Yep. Also air units as things are now are basically useless.
Ninja_Weasel (01/08/2015 03:55pm):
One of my favorite songs on one of the old Need For Speed games was called Metro Gnome so
I thought I'd ask lol.
gravitycmk (06/20/2017 11:09am):
But where are the hq's?
Walker Boh (09/17/2022 05:01pm):
Map completely overhauled for Fog of War as of 9/17/2022.



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