Map Jam & Challenge #2 - Page 3

Hostile marines, chillin' out in formation.

A ramp mostly blocked by huge debris, functioning like a choke at first, but can be massively opened up later.

Sight radii of the central Xel'Naga towers.

Two hostile Turrets act to control the airspace between the main bases, but also block the expansion.

Dimensions - inner part is 148x148 which is pretty small for a 4p. but if you count the outer ring it's 192x192.

I put distinct patches of terrain wherever there are hostile units, so you have an idea of where they are even w/ fog of war and don't just move command into tank fire or cannons (lol).


Pic shows what order you can take the bases in.



If you kill one of the gateways (either before your opponent expands here, or while he has one) then the zealots will see your opponent's town hall/workers and attack. Of course, it might behoove you to kill the zealots behind your own 3rd/4th with ranged units before your opponent can release the trap.



The middle. Normally I'm in the "golds in middle are bad" camp of people, but here I think it's ok because a) you have to fight something for it, and b) the middle on this map really isn't that important, so it's not a winner's gold.
The cannons don't have vision outside the LOS blockers, so you can still move through the middle unmolested as long as you don't go inside the middle LOS blockers.


The rocks cut your natural choke down considerably (I wanted a small nat choke to encourage people to use the alternative pathways. No fun if people just play the map normally every time) AND block the path to your opponent's 3rd/4th, if he is CCW. So if you want to be aggressive that way you open your natural up at the same time.


The corner 3rd/4th. I was ok with the other 3rd not being that easy because you have this base as another option. You can take this base quickly w/ quirky tech options such as banshee or DT because this force simply can't fight them.


2 of the 3 side paths. The top one is well-defended, since it is a direct path from main to main (well, you have to kill 2x of that force to get main to main), assuming you aren't cross-spawn, and it guards a base. The extra pylon + cannon next to the base is to ensure that terrans can't float a CC in there. The archon is necessary to prevent speedlings just running past the cannons into the opponent's nat. It's probably possible to move-command lings past that if you send enough, but it would be a crazy investment. The observers help spot for the tank.


The outermost pathway. A little harder fight than it looks, at least early on, because BCs really don't die.

Man U vs Man City -- oh the drama!