MP poll : which map style you prefer

[Buzzbomb]

Karan size is my favorite size, 160-170 land and 20-25 water with some large inland bodies of water connected via rivers like targa did. I just feel that smaller maps have more character because they can require smaller tactics (ie.holding a pass btw you and your enemy), did that make any sense?


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[Potatoman]

I rarely play maps with more than 110 provinces because I don't like the tedious micromanagement obligations of late game. I tend to use standard map settlings, but with very high magic (65%).

[ March 04, 2004, 20:24: Message edited by: Potatoman ]

[Norfleet]

I'm a big fan of the World map. It's got a level of bottlenecking that just feels right: Not everything is split into bottlenecks, but the bottlenecking has that just-right feel to it.

This is entirely natural. After all, it's as natural a map as you're going to get, and nobody can rightly say they're not familiar to some extent with the map. Except a large number of Americans, apparently.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Buzzbomb:
I just feel that smaller maps have more character because they can require smaller tactics (ie.holding a pass btw you and your enemy), did that make any sense?

That's not a behavior of map size, that's a behavior of map topology. Both small and large maps can exhibit this behavior, depending on how the terrain is laid out.

[ March 04, 2004, 21:16: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

[Tricon]

I like just about every map size. Though for SP games I prefer large-huge maps. I haven't played a big map in MP yet, but considering that this game is made for PBEM I see no real problem with it.
For an afternoon hot seat game I like the "Aran" size maps. For a weekend game the "Orania" size.

For me, bottlenecks are as much a storytelling device as a strategic position. So I like'em a lot, but too many of them kind of defeat their purpose. Unlike others I do not like the "clear one valey at a time" expansion of HoMM. Holding a bottleneck should give you an advantage, but it has to be possible to circumvent them.

[PvK]

Someone could make a large map... and then also several small maps which are sub-sections of it. Just an idea.

PvK