Strategus City Improvement Project

[cmp]

Don't put any barriers on roofs. Once it gets hit by a catapult buildings will be lowered so that the barriers are off anyway.

That's not how we want catapults to work, so don't rely on it.

[Jacko]

Heh. We'll add whatever you guys want us to add. Adding barriers is simple enough anyway.

Just tell us how you want it.

[Wookimonsta]

ichamur will be extremely difficult to defend with the massive length of the wall it seems to me. The number of defenders is just to small to cover it all it seems.
Sargoth seems easy to take, but i can't be sure with that one.
Tulga looks epic and quite defenisble.

[Jacko]

Rejoice! We have been moved!

Anyone up for it is free to pick a map and start editing, the more people editing the more variety we will get!

[KingKessler]

sargoth looks nice. i want to live there

[H4rdn3ssKill3r]

Veryyyy nice stuff, now after you finish that you guys planning to do castles?

[Jarlek]

That's not how we want catapults to work, so don't rely on it.

Still. Isn't it best to have spawns on the ground? The only way they would be broken then would be if you introduced destructible terrain (as apart from destructible objects).

[hotcobbler]

Hey guys, major thanks for doing all this work pro bono for the community.

One thing you might want to do in the first post is make a list of all the cities that need work, kind of like the status list you have now, but for all the "unworked" cities, with their in-game names next to them. That way people who are interested can just dive in and the list can  be worked down gradually.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

[Reinhardt]

I'd like to see Shariz next. I want to see what everyone will be fighting for in the next strat.


BTW: Fantastic work on this!

[Warcat]

Veryyyy nice stuff, now after you finish that you guys planning to do castles?

I think they may need some adjustments, but like villages, native castles are far closer to being in a ready to play situation than cities.

Edit: Seems like castles are already ready to go from what I saw at Bardaq

[Warcat]

Still have more to do, but here's some pics from Praven, those yellow arrows mark the invisible map border. This city is not for claustrophobic people. I've hardly had to do anything at all with the walls, but I've done a lot to the inside. Choke points are all over in this place, so if you somehow fail to hold the wall, you still have plenty to defend.

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No one will actually be able to get on this boat, but it gives a good view of the beach and the attackable wall. Attackers will spawn in the shallow water with the front spawn being on the dock.
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View from the walls looking out onto the invasion fleet.
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The entire area to the right of the tower has to go through the alley that you see in the next picture to get to the rest of the map. The back buildings are all low res fake ones. Also notice I made an almost exact replica of the Praven arena, with positioning based on where the door to it from the center scene is which you see in the last pic.
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A critical choke point should one side of the walls fall. I used many of the Swadia town house props to show some of the cities great age.
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An essential part of the city for any knightly orders that hold it
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This is where construction supplies will be. It's a very close replica to the original castle courtyard in the center scene with just a few minor changes.
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I don't expect this to be an easy one to take, it's practically a medieval Ohmaha beach.

[Jacko]

Looking good, actually looks like a city. Might wanna post a pic with borders up so you get an idea of how big it is. 

[Warcat]

Before to long I'll finish with all the barriers and post those pictures along with an overhead view to be a map.

[Tetris]

My god, Imagine the battles for this town, Epic street fighting and house torching.

"Sire! We may take the town!"

"Take it? Why take it silly?, Burn it to the ground."

[Warcat]

That would be fun if we could raze buildings