Sunset Harbor
Creator: lazernerd || First Published: 02/12/2013 || Players: 2 || Size: 26x16
Categories: B-Rank, Standard
Rating: 9.00 in 4 ratings
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Comments:
lazernerd (02/12/2013 06:26pm | Edited: 02/12/2013 07:13pm):
Center is designed to grant transports free movement while restricting other sea vessels.
Eligitine (02/12/2013 06:35pm):
I'd ban battleships as well, it seems like a battleship could shut down pretty much any base/hq
capture.
lazernerd (02/12/2013 06:45pm | Edited: 02/12/2013 07:13pm):
Good point, I'll add that in the original post.

Edit: No longer relevant.
Mori2 (02/12/2013 06:46pm):
I don't think battleships are any more of a problem than on any other map where ports would
be on, but then I noticed there's no airports so yeah. I think a better solution would be to add
an airport for each side, rather than ban battleships.

In other news, the terraining is super cool here, sort of a bit like Haipah Biim, but I question
whether the base layout couldn't be a bit different given the terrain.
http://awbw.amarriner.com/prevmaps.php?maps_id=27472

In that example, the bases are fairly close to some chokepoints, which makes it more
interesting than if the chokepoints are dead center where the fights will happen, which is
almost what we have here. I think shifting the preowned OS bases a bit further down, and
shifting the BM bases a bit further up, could create a more interesting set of fronts. Ideally
you'd want a lot of the combat to happen in and around the area to the right of the bottom
center bridges, or the left of the top center bridges. It's even better when it's only a single
base defending that front, since it would then expand outward past the chokepoint of the
bridge, capture territory, then would be forced to fall back to the center bridge chokepoint,
thus forcing the double base setup fighting it to move into the center of the map to go around.
If you would end up doing this, I'd again suggest airports, they help these kinds of maps a lot.

As always these are just suggestions, but I tend to give out more suggestions when I think
the map has a lot of potential haha.


lazernerd (02/12/2013 07:15pm):
I appreciate all the suggestions. What do you think about the new layout?
Mori2 (02/12/2013 08:07pm):
Hmm. You know, I was going to suggest something else entirely, but I like this. This is cool.



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