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Ah one of the few humanoid races that I really like playing with, "Dwarves". The play style is neat and simple building a couple of units, conquering ziggurat like farms and gain enough population and men to tumble your enemy dwarves, although there wasn't much features of this risk like the newer ones or other risk like maps that were produce, I can still say the game play is very fine to understand, and quite a user-friendly.

The terrain is quite rumble-looking, maybe next time it would be nice if the terrain would resemble Dwarven-territory such as snowy mountains, grey lands, or muddy swamps due to its specific lores given samples of fantasy games, however its still your decision since I believe you made this map a long time.

Overall map can be accepted and a must for risk game players.

Review

Abilities

(-) [Sniper's] Healing Wave doesn't synergize with Distance and Thorns Aura. Nor do they fit thematically, neither do their effects.

(-) There are no abilities with new/interesting effects.

(-) The Sniper's Distance Aura does not affect self.

Aestethics

(-) The run/walk speed in conjunction with the movement speed and scale size of heroes are wrong. They move very wonky, with the exception being the Leader.

(-) Improper Hotkeys; see tutorial. Healing Wave also reacts to (Q), but says (E).

(-) Icons do not match. Leader uses the Mountain King icon, yet has a model of a tank. Even though it could be said that the Mountain King is 'inside' the Engine, his presence inside it remains unfelt.

(-) Tooltips vary in lay out.

(-) Numbers aren't present in the abilities' descriptions.

Gameplay

(-) The income resource research time is very slow.

(-) A threshold of 50% health is a bit too high for farms to shift ownership.

(-) What really makes a hero? A hero should, aside from a few cases of instant hero arenas, they should grow stronger per level. The Leader does not; all his abilities are learnt at level one. Instead of abilities having no synergy or the amount of learnable abilities varying from hero to hero, they should be uniform and thematic while helping the hero fulfill his role.

Terrain

(-) Terrain is very flat and plain; there is no tile variation. Also, doodads are rather hard to find, if not spammed in certain locations. Places look desolate because of the lack of decoration.