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Pikeman's Ridge

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Name: Pikeman's Ridge
Players: 2
Playable size: 100 x 92
Tileset: Lordaeron Winter
This map is defined by its central high level plateau. All expansions are located on high ground, while the starting positions are on low ground. None of the ramps are close to your main base though so you should be able to defend it like you normally would. And since you've got three ramps to both "starting pockets", the enemy won't pin you down forever on low ground.

I might add a road later to make it look nicer.

Pikeman's Ridge is a location used in WoW. It's in the West of Drustvar, Kul Tiras.

I've made the map much smaller after some testing.

At the Nreubian Webspinner camp, you can get more exp if you kill the creeps in a smart order.


=== CHANGELOG ===

v01
- uploaded map

v02
- Turned the U-shaped creep camps in the corners around
- Shrunk the map to 108x92, making it more equal to existing popular maps
- Made the area around the tavern a little wider
- Added some cliffs to the large forest areas
- Added a few more doodads

v03
- renamed map to "Pikeman's Ridge", a place from the WoW universe, cause it looks somewhat similar
- increased top and bottom gold mines gold from 12500 to 15000
- set the majority of gold mine creep camps from "normal" to "camp"
- changed viewing direction of a creep
- fixed one red camp from dropping a lvl 4 item to dropping a lvl 5 item
- swapped creeps of the green camp at position 2500x500 (level composition stayed the same)

v04
- significantly shrunk the playing field
- reworked a lot of the terrain
- remixed all creep camps
- replaced Lordaeron Summer Merc Camp with Lordaeron Winter Merc Camp
Contents

Pikeman's Ridge v04 (Map)

Reviews
mafe
Ok, given that we already talked about this map on discord, there are only a few additonal comments: -At the southwest merc camp, an lvl 2 creeps is looking the wrong way. -One of the red camps drops a lvl 4 item, but the other camp drops a lvl 5...

mafe

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Ok, given that we already talked about this map on discord, there are only a few additonal comments:
-At the southwest merc camp, an lvl 2 creeps is looking the wrong way.
-One of the red camps drops a lvl 4 item, but the other camp drops a lvl 5 item.
-Relative lack of medium armor creeps at green camps. Orcs and humans will not creep as fast as they normally would.
-Layout is good and map looks like melee maps are expected to look.

I trust you will fix the itemdrop. So map approved in advance.
 
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Thanks for the hint! That item drop was a nasty overlook. Anyway, I've also swapped one creep camp.

I've renamed the map to Pikeman's Ridge. It was the only ridge from a warcraft place I could find that looks snowy but not like a SUPER MEGA ICE WORLD.
 
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