cn2mc Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 Doing my best to keep the tradition of bringing you higly detailed duel maps: There are far too many maps with 'canyon' in their name (even one of mine), so I chose 'Axis of Advance', but the gist of it is... it's a canyon. This time the canyon is not the obstacle between opponents, rather the main attack route. Of course, there are two more approaches towards the enemy to choose from, and they have something the canyon desperately lacks - tiberium. Enjoy! cn2Axis_of_Advance.ini cn2Axis_of_Advance.bin
Jacko Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 I'd have to play it first but my initial thoughts are Nod has an advantage on this map, because it looks quite open
AchromicWhite Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 The idea is really nice, but I agree with Jacko, it looks quite open (especially right around the actual base positions) -Liam
r34ch Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Really nice looking map. I like the village power plants. I hope I see more maps like this and less of the RA1 'pro' maps made in a couple of minutes.
cn2mc Posted February 12, 2015 Author Posted February 12, 2015 I hope I see more maps like this and less of the RA1 'pro' maps made in a couple of minutes. You can count on me for that, and thanks. Nyer, as for Nod, it's commonly accepted that the more open a map is, the more an advantage Nod has because of the space bikes have to maneuvre. It's harder to trap them and it's harder to defend your base. A classic example of this would be the infamous Southern Utah, where GDI is at a severe disadvantage, because, at best, only one side of their base will be protected by the map edge. Everything else is open for hit and run. On top of that, large tiberium fields prevent GDI from defending against harvester raids effectively as infantry will die or fight with low health in tiberium, especially deadly for the main bike-killers, grenadiers. All of this said, i do not think it applies to this particular map. The villages, as well as the small bush-ridden sides of both spawns are meant to be barriers that disrupt this kind of hit and run, and the whole general idea behind the canyon layout and the three different attack vectors is to make hit and run harder: if your bikes get caught in the canyon you can't just swing around as usual, you have to run all the way back to your base and take one of the other, lenghtier and deadlier routes. And again, all of this said, I haven't played it myself, so we'll see how it finally works out. Although, if there is an 'open-closed' map scale, this one actually falls more on the 'closed' side, as far as most maps being played in TD goes.
Nyerguds Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Hey, if all else fails, you can use free moments in your building construction and actually make *gasp!* walls! :O
cn2mc Posted February 13, 2015 Author Posted February 13, 2015 Against APCs, walls can work wonders. They don't really work against bikes though. It's better to use your cash and APM on infantry.
Nyerguds Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 True, a group of bikes is really one of the best things to take down walls...
Jacko Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 I do sometimes use sandbags to protect my weapons factory/ construction yard, although not in a way you would expect.
AchromicWhite Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 "Free moments in your construction" See, once you get more fluent in your builds, and so does your opponent, this isn't really a thing. It's also really REALLY bad to try and do early on, which is pretty much the hardest part of the game for GDI when vs Nod. -Liam
Nyerguds Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 Really? You actually keep building STRUCTURES all the time too?
cn2mc Posted March 13, 2015 Author Posted March 13, 2015 Unless you're saving up for something in particular like a quick surprize tech switch to helis, you should pretty much build all the time, yes. If you have the cash, that is. And you can get the cash by being very quick with building refineries and expanding towards tiberium. In other words, by building all the time. Scale doesn't really matter. On some new maps this can mean a huge-ass RA-like battle, on some money-scarce WW maps it can mean like 2 powerplants, 2 refs, 3 barracks and then towers in your back yard until you die.
AchromicWhite Posted March 14, 2015 Posted March 14, 2015 Yeah, lately I've gotten used to watching my cash as I do it, so, if I have more, I go for a ref (it sucks out the cash because of the build speed), if I have less I go for pp/bar/comm cen/WF etc, so I'm not wasting time. As long as it flows, it's good. -Liam
cn2mc Posted March 14, 2015 Author Posted March 14, 2015 Watch cash, and babysit harvs too! A new ref will pay for itself and make a profit only after the third trip of it's harv is complete.
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