Hey,

Well I had an idea for a map and though I'd try it out. Keep in mind this map is testing an idea, I don't plan on making the next DotA or whatever.

The map has a very different economic situation than you are used to:
-Units have no food cost
-Gold cost of units drastically reduced
-Lumber cost of units increased
-Buildings have a food cost (1 for all except town halls which have 5)
-Buildings have increased lumber cost
-Buildings have an increased gold cost
-Units move incredibly slowly and attack incredibly slowly without a nearby commander, hero or building

New type of unit: Commander
The Commander type units are bought from your town halls. There are 3 ranks: ground/melee, mounted/ranged, and flying. They are a cheaper alternative to heroes for commanding troops, but the range of leadership is reduced. Buildings further have they range of leadership reduced (making heroes the best for controlling). All commanders of equal rank are the same i.e: the Orc and Human ground/melee commander is identical except from display. The flying commanders are different, Orc and Night Elf are melee, Human and Undead are ranged.

The map itself is a modified "Divide and Conquer". It should work so that Night Elves are Human are on the north half, Orcs and Undead on the south half. I have made it so the Alliance and Horde are set forces.

In the future I would like to introduce:
-A neutral 'super hero' that is fought over and converted. Kind of like a capture the flag. It'd have a slow walking speed but powerful spells and a huge cleave.
-Civilisation specifications: I want to make it so that Night Elves can spec into either High Elf or continue with the normal Night Elves once you get the max rank Tree of Life. Similarly I would do like renegade Humans (bandits or centaurs etc), Fel Orcs, and Nerubians.
However these are just plans at the moment, I wanted to get the basic idea of the map out first.

Credits go to:
ikillforeyou for XV105SuperStingray (the plane)
Figueiredo00 for Guardian (Keeper of the Grove with hammer)
Mecheon for WarEagle
Frankster for Fel Orc Lancer
Thrikodius for Elder Shadow Dragon
Thank you!


Enjoy! Feel free to comment about bugs or problems. It is mainly the idea I was interested in, not a perfectly balanced map.

P.S. suggestions for a half decent name are more than welcome.

-Kyux

Update1: fixed player starting positions and races (hopefully).
Update2: heroes should no longer be effected by their own 'Leadership'.
Update3: Undead Acolytes can now place Blight. Trees will not last longer and regenerate after 5 minutes. You will now start with more lumber (equal to gold starting amount). All commanders are significantly cheaper (100,125,150).

Keywords:
Kyux, Economy, idea, Alliance, Horde