The War of Khaz Modan: Thorium and Death

[Deolrin]

A new AoS map I'm working on.

Short storlyine:

The 'story' takes place when the Undead scourge decides to invade the dwarven lands of Khaz Modan, because of a recent rumor of an ore found in the mounts of Khaz Modan by the name of Thorium. This ore could be used to forge extremely tough metal, and both races - Dwarves and Undead - want to use it for their own needs. The resident Trolls and Nerubians took this situation for their own advantage and are now selling various items and are hiring various mercenaries for the dwarven and undead armies.

Features:

• Upgrades for your units are available at the Blacksmith or Graveyard - in addition to basic damage\armor upgrades, you will also be able to research new units or upgrade your already spawning units. As an example, you'll start with only Warriors and Axe Throwers(or their Undead counterparts: Skeleton Warriors and Crypt Fiends) spawning at your base, but you'll be able to research in order to upgrade them into Shieldbreakers(from Warriors), Riflemen(from Axe throwers), Ghouls(from Skeleton Warriors) or Crypt Crawlers(from Crypt Fiends). You will also be able to research in order to allow new units to spawn - such as the Steam Tanks, Flying Machines, Necromancers, Frost Wyrms, Gargoyles and Steam Fortresses.
  
• Each race has it own "ultimate" unit - Steam Fortress(Dwarf) and Frost Wyrm(Undead) - who are very powerful units whose spawn time is very long and they require researches to be made before they are able to spawn.
  
• Mercenary\item shops available to both races.
  
• 3 unique heroes for each race.

Screenshots:

Entire map view:

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Dwarven Outpost\Base:

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Undead Outpost\Base:

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Dwarven Units:

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Undead Units:

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Ice Troll Mercenary\Item dealer(Dwarven side):

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Nerubian Mercenary\Item dealer(Undead side):

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Heroes:

Dwarf:

Thane:

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Offensive\support role - abilities are focused on inflicting damage to masses of enemies(creeps) and on supporting nearby units.

	1. Warcry: The Thane shouts out a loud warcry, boosting near allied forces damage and defense.
	2. Moralizing Aura: The units around the Thane gain morale and inspiration from the presence of their Thane, boosting their damage.
	3. Lightningstorm: The Thane channels to bring forth a powerful lightning storm, damaging units in an area.
	Ultimate - Lightning Nova: The Thane calls forth a great nova of lightning, damaging all units in a big radius, with a chance to stun them for 5 seconds. All units that were hit by the nova will be dazed by it's power, slowing their movement and attack speed.

Battle Priest:

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Offensive\anti-hero role - abilities are focused on inflicting high damage to heroes.

	1. Name: Description.
	2. Name: Description.
	3. Name: Description.
	Ultimate - Name: Description.

Paladin:

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Defensive\"tank" role - abilities are focused on absorbing high amounts of damage.

	1. Name: Description.
	2. Name: Description.
	3. Name: Description.
	Ultimate - Name: Description.

Undead:

Skeletal Marksman:

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Ranged offense\anti-hero role - abilities are focused on inflicting high damage to heroes.

	1. Name: Description.
	2. Name: Description.
	3. Name: Description.
	Ultimate - Name: Description.

Wraith:

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Mystical\offensive role - abilities are focused on inflicting high damage to masses of 'creeps' from afar.

	1. Name: Description.
	2. Name: Description.
	3. Name: Description.
	Ultimate - Name: Description.

Skeletal Ravager:

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Defensive\'tank' role - abilities are focused on absorbing high amounts of damage.

	1. Name: Description.
	2. Name: Description.
	3. Name: Description.
	Ultimate - Name: Description.

More coming soon!

 

[Wrel]

Good theme.

Looking forward to hearing more about the map.

 

[Deolrin]

I'm currently working on balancing all units to each other, then I'll start working on the other heroes. But of course I'll need to make\get someone to make the Thane's ultimate first.

 

[Gausslander]

Gee, I like the terrain, where have I seen it before? ;-)
Just messin' with ya, remove the mushrooms from around the towers, and do you need suggestions on hero abilities?

 

[Deolrin]

Suggestions on hero abilities will be nice, yeah

And I like the mushrooms D:

 

[Wrel]

Err... that ultimate is easy to trigger.
If the spell is instant, it's just grabbing every enemy unit within x range and dealing x damage to them. Then make a temporary integer, randoming it 1-100, if it's less than a certain number (acting as your percent), make a dummy unit to cast a dummy storm bolt at them.

Unless you're trying to make it more graphical, like have the lightning ripple out, then you can do it in stages. There are a lot of maps in the spells section that have this sort of effect.

 

[Linaze]

"The resident Trolls and Nerubians..."
"The War of Khaz Modan"
I can't say these two go well together at all.

 

[Wrel]

"The resident Trolls and Nerubians..."
"The War of Khaz Modan"
I can't say these two go well together at all.

Dude.
Trolls and Nerubians are broskies.

 

[Deolrin]

"The resident Trolls and Nerubians..."
"The War of Khaz Modan"
I can't say these two go well together at all.

There are in fact Ice Trolls in Khaz Modan. I don't know about Nerubians, but what other race could act as a mercenary\item shop in Khaz Modan?

Btw, Ice Trolls in Khaz Modan:


http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=706
http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=1123
http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=1120

 

[Zeverens]

About all of these things. Who cares bout' if they don't go together? You don't always have to follow WoW's lore. I think this will be great. Good luck mate.

 

[Linaze]

I was referring to the Nerubians, of course.

 

[Deolrin]

Well, now seriously, who cares... Yeah I like lore and all but I don't know how I could replace it, as it seems that there is no other race that fits this whole thing. Maybe Dark Iron Dwarves, but why would they agree to sell anything to do the Ironforge\Bronzebeard\whatever dwarves?

 

[breebree123]

i will look forward to your map

 

[Vosty]

Looks like a fun map!
Can't Wait to see it!

 

[Soul Theft]

there are not many heroes

 

[Deolrin]

Yes, well, the project is dead. :/