Teamliquid Map Contest #10 Voting - Page 4

I like the layered base layout of a progressive main -> nat -> horizontal 3rd. Especially the terrain around the third can provide interesting tactics both for attacking as well as setting up defenses, to respectively either favor multipronged attacks, or FORCEFULLY splitting the attacking army into 2 smaller ones by Sim City etc.. Additionally, I really like the look of the whole map and it's tiles Only annoying thing I could see would be armies colliding in the middle of the map, causing a lot of clusterfuck fights on the high ground; plus the potential of drop harass being too strong because of the long walking distances from your Nat/3rd into your main forcing you to constantly keep units back at home to defend those.

Overall pretty cool and solid standard map. I might be wrong, but it looks like despite the open area, taking the "4th" base as your 3rd (the one right above/below the main respectively) might be easier to defend, especially since the regular vertical 3rd looks like it can be shot at from the high ground. The middle of the map looks great, both for pathing as well as attacks, allowing faster units to flank the enemy army during an engagement. An issue I could see is the little unpassable area above/below the mains, if, lets say a Liberator can siege up there and shoot at the third, or at buildings near the edge of your main, without being able to be shot at by units in the main it could cause problems.

I really like the concept of the map itself. It's a rush map that isn't a rush map by distance, as was specifically mentioned, but instead it makes most bases past your Nat really hard to defend, promoting 2-base-play, without actually making the rush distance ridicoulosly short like on BftBW or Abiogenesis for example. Would like to see more maps with concepts like this in the future.

Honestly, I can't really explain why I like this map x) It just seems like it allows for so many shenanigans that people could come up with, which are impossible to figure out just by looking at it or studying it. You'd have to play a shit ton of games on the map and try different things, and I'm actually looking forward to all the weird strategies people come up with over time.

The fact aside that the name is retarded and sounds like a 14 year old German Gangsta-Rap-Fan made it... I like the concept. The backdoor Gold expansion that opens up a new attack path when it's mined out reminds me of the old "Outsider" map in Brood War. I'm not quite sure if the map is balanced, or healthy for the game, but I'd be willing to take the risk if only for the nostalgia and to see how it plays out.