True Village Wars V1.02

1.02 update improves terrain significantly, adds a new (and extremely useful) structure, and fixes a few bugs from the previous version.

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Build a village, create houses for people to live in, tax them, and use your money to build an army. Form alliances with your neighbors and crush your opponents.

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What is True Village Wars?

True Village Wars is perhaps the first village/city builder map to actually strive for balance and strategy, and look good while doing it.

In other builder maps, you build a couple hundred units that have no food or gold cost, and gain massive amounts of gold from them. In TVW, you have to build houses and let people move in, then tax them. You can upgrade the occupancy of your housing structures as well, to further increase your tax income. You also have to harvest lumber, which can be done in a number of ways. Axe men, mechanical harvesters, and flying harvesters all can be used for this purpose. You can also trade 10% of either resource to gain some of it in the other, where gold is worth twice as much as lumber. Another unique feature to this map is that some units have the ability to kill people in houses. If you can get a good raid in, the enemy can lose perhaps a quarter of their income, perhaps more, adding a layer of further strategy. If you can't wipe out your enemy, at least weaken them as much as possible, right?

TVW also has a unique system of Unit Traits gives each unit (with a few exceptions) its own stat bonuses, which can make all the difference in a fight. Certain traits can only go to certain unit types. The traits are the following:

M = Melee
R = Ranged
S = Magic

Assassin (MRS) - Chance for a critical strike
Beserker (MRS) - Increased movement and attack rate
Dancer (MRS) - Chance to evade strikes
Defensive (MRS) - Bonus armor
Heavy Hitter (M) - Chance to stun and deal extra damage on attack
Magi (S) - Increased mana regeneration
Offensive (MRS) - Bonus damage
Pillager (M) - Attacks on structures steal resources
Sieger (R) - Attacks enflame structures, cut attack rate and prevent repair
Striker (M) - Attacks deal splash damage to nearby enemy units
Survivalist (MRS) - Increased movement and regeneration rate

There are 3 tiers of gameplay, starting with a Village, and going to Town, then City. With only Village tier, you can only get basic units and only a couple upgrades. Once you upgrade to Town, your available units, structures, and upgrades doubles. Getting to city adds even more units, and doubles your available upgrades yet again.

Along with the 3 tiers, there are 3 main unit types and 2 more total unit types. Melee, Ranged, Magic, Healer, and Siege. Melee units deal normal damage and have high health and armor, these are your bread and butter. Ranged units deal piercing damage and are meant to sit a ways back. They have low health but high damage and range. Magic units are melee units with particularly high magic damage and unique special abilities. They have medium health and armor. These three are the main types and they play a game of rock-paper-scissors. Melee units do bonus damage to ranged units and take bonus damage from magic units. Ranged units do bonus damage to magic units and take bonus damage from melee units. Magic units do bonus damage to melee units and take bonus damage from ranged units. Healer units are also magic units, but they have far lower health and far higher mana. They have low damage but have powerful healing spells, and take bonus damage from Magic and Ranged units. Siege units are slow firing and long range, highly effective versus towers and walls, but are slow-moving and extremely weak to magic and and fast units, such as Light Knights.

Balance was one of the key reasons this map was made. Pretty much every builder map I've played has had absolutely atrocious balancing, which greatly detracted from the experience. TVW aims to be just as balanced as regular Warcraft III. While some units are certainly better than others, no unit is without its counter. Just because the enemy has a couple dozen top-tier units doesn't mean they can't be defeated if you use the right strategy and abilities. 20 Grand Knights will easily fall to 12 Paladins of the Holy Flame, even without their heal/buff.

Custom and triggered abilities further add to gameplay. Paladins of the Holy Flame have a healing spell that not only heals for a pretty good amount of health, but also gives a damage return bonus temporarily. Acid Bomb Launchers have a powerful armor-reducing ability that bounces acid among enemy units. Defenders have an extremely useful armor bonus aura that activates when they enter defend mode, sacrificing damage and speed to improve the armor of allies. The Naga Traveler can summon tidal pools, which slow down enemis in their radius greatly. The Lich traveler can even summon up a terrific blizzard to damage his enemies.

So, what is True Village Wars? True Village Wars is perhaps the best village/city builder map there is. Who says? Just about everyone who has played has been asked what they think, and they say they like it a lot. Unless this just isn't your type of map, if you try it, you'll like it a lot.

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Features

-Tons of custom units, upgrades, and abilities
-Traits - Every unit you train (with a few exceptions) comes with its own natural trait, which gives it a specific bonus. Some traits are Defensive, which gives a slight armor boost, Survivalist, which gives a speed and health regeneration boost, and many more
-Tax-based income. Build houses to increase your population, and gain money from your taxes.
-Regrowing Trees
-Hired travelling heroes to help, each unique in function
-A LOT more

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Credits:
00Nobody - Creator, units, triggers, terrain, most of the custom icons
MaEt-ReLLiK - Custom Gate Icon, testing
SONIC(1) - Testing
Naminator - Chain Acid base

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Keywords:
Village