(2)Moon Strand 2 v2.2b +ATR v2.0, Moon Strand v1.0 + ATR v1.0

[Panda]

I like the blue trees added, it makes it seem like a dream or something.

 

[Figglewig]

I like the blue trees added, it makes it seem like a dream or something.

Thank you, yes I was going for an enchanted forest feel.

I don't know if you're familiar with the zone Darkshore from WoW, but Darkshore has a few purple colored trees dotted around the zone. This was as close as I could get to that.

 

[Remixer]

Review - Moonlit Strand v1.0
(Version June 28th 2025)
Synopsis: The dreamy-looking terrain work offers a battle arena for two players for a standard melee match in a beautiful setting, that's been spiced-up by customized tileset as well as re-skinned creeps.
Map Aesthetics: Visually the carries very strong visual values, with quite heavy decoration levels throughout. At times it does however seem a bit unequal (in level of attention) as well as lacking some contrast. The central gold mine area with the dreamy color mixture of blue, green and dark brownslooks gorgeous and enchanting - excellent visual work that gives an amazing atmosphere. The left-side of the map however looks very grim (too much so) and seems to mix-up a lot of different visual themes which results in quite patch-worky looking terrain (fall trees, city trees, winter trees, dead trees, vibrant shrubs, fall ground, summer grass, rock, leaves and so forth), which is then combined with outlandish and sunken ruins creeps. It just looks very scattered. The area is also quite hard to read (gameplay-wise) due to the dark tones). The custom clifs on the right side of the map are nice looking, and bring a factor of uniqueness - especially combined with the waterfalls.
Map Layout: The map looks quite large with a lot of creep camps positioned across the map. The direct passage through the cave is shortest and fastest, but is quite restricted by the narrow cave entrances. An undefended assault from this pathway however can be very brutal due to leaving two mercenary camps behind the attacking player, allowing very one-sided back-up troop hiring. The more open area (left side) of the map looks very accessible - the routes to main bases could be more open (without the little tree line in the middle of the corridor) to make bases more exposed.
Neutral Objectives: The neutral objectives are very plentiful with five green camps and even more orange and red camps up for contesting. I do like the macro placement of the creep camps and objectives with natural order of easier camps closer to baess and harder camps farther away. The cave camp (right side of the map). Red camps are quite tough for a one-on-one map, especially the cave camp. I'd argue there is very little incentive to contest the cave camp, as it leaves your army so heavily exposed if the enemy spots it (your own army cannot fall back through the narrow entrance, while simultaneously fighting the enemy army and the strong creep camp). The re-skin feature has been used a lot. I'd say a bit too much as 9 camps are using reskins (even skinning creatures that are in other camps of the map as themselves). It can be a bit annoying to read which creep unit is which, and I'd wonder if there is a less heavy approach with the reskin. The ancient of war as a reskin looks fascinating, but it leaves behind weird visual left-overs (the roots on the ground as a splat image).
Map Gameplay: A functional melee map that follows the standard ruleset. The layout is decent with interesting 'shortcut' passage between the bases. Very heavy uniqueness-brush is used with very unconventional tileset and doodad mixture as well as reskins of creeps, perhaps to the point where the clarity and readability of the gameplay suffers too much. Nevertheless approved.

 

[contemplate]

Nice try!