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Middleground

Created by K. Bennett
Category Map
Rating 3 / 5 3 ratings
Difficulty 3.33 / 5 3 ratings
Original creation date 1999-12-26
Submission date 2023-06-01
Last updated 2023-06-01
Filesize 51.25KiB
Downloads 32
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middleground_v1.1.0.zip 51.25KiB 32 2023-06-01
Description
  • Creature Pool: Troll, Dragon, Dark Mistress, Warlock, Bile Demon, Hell Hound, Orc
  • Objects: Creatures: 168, Traps: 41, Doors: 26, Items: 315, Dungeon hearts: 2, Hero gates: 0, Special Boxes: 7
Installation Intructions

Read the Playing Custom Maps documentation page for information on how to play this map.

Comments

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A nice level with an interesting start.

You start with two lvl 5 mistresses and 3 imps (take care of them before you get the summon imp spell). You can only build a lair and a treasure room, and start with both but no hatchery, which is your main problem at the moment. The only way you can go is west, through the gold path but that path is well defended by many hero pockets of lvl 5-6 heroes. As your mistresses are still melee only at that point, it can be a bit difficult to kill the heroes so micro management is needed. Eventually, you'll find a single slab of hatchery and after that, other rooms including the prison and even the torture room. Finding a room makes you able to build said room to start your dungeon.

The second problem will be gold starvation, eventually. The hero pockets guarding the gold and the gems, later, are no joke but you'll get many skeletons to throw into the bonegrinder while your mistresses do the heavy work. Once you have the torture room, your army will grow even more.

There are secrets to be found, including an Avatar behind a path full of traps which will come very handy as the enemy Keeper is strong despite his much smaller army. It turns out there are triggers that replenish his army should he lose too many creatures so a Pyrrhic victory is out of question, but even then I ended up with 100+ creatures to his 35.

You can also capture a scavenging room. Enjoy your mistresses.

4/5, this map is very good for its age. It's not perfect though. Way too many boulders in the enemy Keeper's dungeon, and the scavenging room is overkill on top of the rest. 3/5 difficulty for the beginning.

Zax 🇨🇿

You are slowly building your army most of the time so you can beat Blue Keeper. So have all the time you want before you attack him. You can easily have 3x bigger army than him but that doesnt mean you will beat him if you will not use spells or if your creatures get killed by his fully trapped dungeon with boulders and other traps. He was also getting new high level creatures by script to replenish his army. Map quality and difficulty is in the middle so 3/5.