What Kind of Maps Have You Liked the Best?

[Jarold]

Hello, I was trying to think of more maps to make but frankly I'm out of ideas. So, I decided to hopefully get some good ideas from you guys. What has your favorite map style been? You can post about a specific map or just a general summary of a map you enjoy. I'm really hoping to get some good feedback about maps that have proven to be balanced and fun for all to play. You can even post about maps that were just plain fun for everyone but wasn't exactly balanced! Don't forget you can also post about maps you dislike as well.

Do you enjoy field maps which usually favor cavalry and ranged, but can be fun for infantry?

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Do you favor village maps that have a good mix of balance depending on where you are in the map and how the map has been laid out?

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Do you favor maps with ruins that you can run into that usually favors most classes, with infantry being left out a bit, but mostly balanced.

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Do you favor city maps that limit cavalry player's experience but can really favor infantry and even ranged depending on the map?

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Maybe you enjoy a mix of these, something completely different, or out of the box?

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I do understand that there is a lot of overlap between map types, but try to choose the ones that most appeal to you.

[Asheram]

that map with the round stonehenge rock circles was fun

[Drunken_sailor]

any map which you can ambush people from above like batman is preferable

[Lord_Carlos]

any map which you can ambush people from above like batman is preferable

Same like me its too funny  ambush Players

[Lord_Carlos]

For me the last Kind of maps like stonehenge and moar.

Ist fun go behind the enemy lines and slay they down like a fucking Ninja

To be honest I like all maps

[Ikarus]

I prefer any kind of map as long as it's not completely flat and open like f.e. some desert maps

village maps often give a good mix for cav, inf and range though

[Peasant_Woman]

City(castle, siege) and ruin maps are best in my view.
Village maps are nice; since I like full immersion, in certain states of mind I may find myself felling trees and forking cabbages instead of seeking the enemy team and using teamwork with my own.
Protip: Work WITH the terrain not against it and you can go very far indeed; not every detail needs to be smoothed out, sometimes the terrain generator can work wonders.
A mix of styles is best, all the greatest maps use a careful blend of styles. Pre-plan what you will do before you do ANYTHING or at least make use of the terrain colour feature to block out certain areas as being a type of thing or responsible for a certain play-style or feel.

any map which you can ambush people from above like batman is preferable

Literally 'getting the drop' on other players feels and looks fantastic; as the sky-box is criminally underused in most maps, please use this feature more.
My map "2Desert" was an experiment with the available height of maps and is the smallest available setting in the terrain editor.
Just my 2 paragraphs.

[Casul]

my turn:

City maps > ruins > village > river/forest > desert maps > open field maps

and why?

I was just not really playing cav classes in general so getting couched or bump lanced by cavs was annoying and dumb imo. It was too simple and just too unspectacular.
thats literally the only reason for my list. Open field maps against archers and cavs if not playing a hoplit was pretty pointless.

[Gravoth_iii]

Village maps usually feel like the most favourable to all classes, and the most enjoyable. I used to love city maps, but mostly because cav struggles there.

[zottlmarsch]

I liked the one that fips added when as defender 50% of the time you would spawn above the flag on a really high tower with no doors, the only way down was a 50ft drop to your death. Anyone else remember that map?

[Torben]

Village maps are quite nice for all classes. 

If we had 2011,  id say open field,  back when 30 vs 30 teamwork was going on,  with commanders on both sides holding shieldwals,  2h and pole guys hiding behind them,  archers exchanging volleys and cav forced to work with team.
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chagans map leaning on the movie conan the barbarian is one of my favs tho.

also i like maps with bushes 

[Kadeth]

arena

[Oberyn]

>cav struggles in narrow city maps

Lol nabs. It's harder for sure, but even more satisfying to destroy pedestrians. The one downside of city maps are the usual bundle of stickss who hide on some 2 story building in a corner of the map pew-pewing, something that is incredibly annoying to more than just cav. Early flag spawns mostly fixed that problem.

[njames89]

I've always liked the maps with unique features. Things like the trap door, giant chasm with bridge, arena, Tavern, cave of odin, volcano Valley, silent sea (ship battle).

They may not make the best maps for cav or archers but they break up the monotony of villages and fields nicely.

I would support adding more of these maps where players fight in unique situations. I would also like to see more fights that take place inside of castles. Fights in courtyards or along a section of wall. In general I think smaller maps are better as well.

[the real god emperor]

Ruins, locations where archers can take cover and avoid being free kills to cavalry( who am i kidding, just take a scottish sword and outrange every cavalryman lmao), while having open areas which can infantry move through while being partially covered (yes playing infantry has to be risky af tbh) and a lot of cavalry ganking potential. Most ruins map we had have those attributes and they grow old only after many years of gameplay.