Cleon's Maps: New map - Grove (6/16/24)

[Cleon]

Well met!

"I really love how tight your maps’ footprints are." ~ elvenwizard9

Lovely map. However, one man's "tight" is another man's "claustrophobic."

Thank you, I was lost on the name for a bit but all the dark green with the trees sparked 'grove.'

Cleon,

I really love how tight your maps’ footprints are. It opens you up to do some interesting things with the terrain-heavier sets. I’m planning on building Morning Skirmish and Ironworks soon!

Side note: 1x BftU+VW+FotA appears to be a really underutilized terrain combination. Ironworks is one of the few maps on this site that I’ve found that uses it. Do you have any insight as to why that might be?

Thanks, hope they play well.

And I have no idea. Chris Perkins just suggested I build a map with that terrain combo and I came up with Ironworks. 1 BftU + 1 FotA actually gives you a lot to work with.

There are terrain combos that are just rarer. I think it has to do with having 1 BftU or 1 SotM as your base master set is a lot harder than having 1 RotV as your base. It's also just generally easier to build maps with RttFF or TJ most of the time, I think (however working with 1 SotM 1 RttFF here was tricky). Other than that, I'm not sure why some are much rarer. TT+VW maps were very rare for a while.