Maps can be downloaded individually below, or you can download all of them in a single pack at the bottom. I'll update the pack as I add more maps.
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- Single Player Maps -StandardExorcist
64 x 64
DownloadThis map is inspired on Death.pud, which used to be my favourite map of the original ToD customs when I was a kid, I always thought the idea of fighting an army of undead instead of conventional orcs vs humans was really creative and interesting. While working on this, I thought, since we're pitted against a large army of undead, I'd make exorcism, a spell often sided, the main theme of this map. Castle upgrade is disabled, and computer attacks mostly with death knights.
Adamant
64 x 64
DownloadNothing much to say about this one. It's based on screenshots of an old map I made back in 2007, but got lost to time. It's inspired on Human 8 campaign. Map has a very tight start, you're under frequent harrassment from both Teal and Purple, and can only scrap by with limited initial resources. Quick expansion is a must. Once you have a firm foothold on your expansion, it becomes a cakewalk though.
Maelstrom
128 x 128
DownloadSince I was a kid, it's been a long dream to see a water map where the computer places mages in transport ships. I'd give the computer mage towers and mages, set them to 'active', but it was all for naught, he didn't use them as I intended. Now, thanks to the wonders of third party editors, my childhood dream has been realized! :D Each color specializes in a particular spell: Blue casts polymorph, Teal uses invisibility (completely useless), Purple uses slow and Orange uses flameshield. They also have a different offensive spells, fireball for Blue/Teal, blizzard for Purple/Orange. Although map is mostly water, sea combat is severely limited, submarines are disabled to balance things. The computer doesn't build ships, so you don''t have to worry about defending your own ships or oil rigs. Blue and Teal both start to produce gryphons later in the game, which works as a soft time limit, you want to either expand or destroy them before that happens, or you'll have a really hard time defending against gryphon attacks.
Thunder Bird
128 x 128
DownloadI've been going through user custom maps, and one thing that struck me is that I haven't seen any good strictly air maps. I wanted to see a scenario where you have to fight off several air opponents, so I came up with this. Originally, it had 3 opponents, but I found that it wasn't as difficult as i had hoped, so I revised everything and after adding one more computer, it's now insane! At some point, you can get like 20+ gryphons at your base at the same time!
If you like getting bombarbed into oblivion by flying chickens, this map will greatly please you.
Chokepoint
32 x 32
DownloadI wanted to try making an XS map, I thought the concept of starting off in a turtled up base under constant attack would work well for a map of this size. Biggest threat here are catapults, and your farm getting destroyed is an instant death in most cases.
If you're wondering why there's a visible spot over the enemy's Fortress, pay it no heed, that's a 0x0 runestone, it's necessary to stop the computer from walking his units into your base. Without it, he won't amass troops, and won't develop properly. It's ugly, but it's the only solution I found to this problem.
(update)
I managed to get rid of that annoying visible spot over the enemy fortress by passing ownership of the runestone to p9.
Also made a few minor terrain changes.
Isle of Torment
64 x 64
DownloadThis is a rather quick and simplistic map. You start with a group of peasants stranded on an island populated by devils and must develop a settlement to survive. Later on, you have to construct ships to destroy the devils' burning altar in the southwest to rid the isle of the devils for good! Enemy forces consist entirely of daemons and no other enemy types. Towers are disabled, meaning your primary defense will be archers, which are rather frail and die all too easily. Resources are scarce, so it's crucial that you preserve your units as much as possible. You may be attacked by devils very early on, before you have time to build proper defenses, in which case, your only choice will be to sacrifice a worker to lure the devil away, and hope it stays away! Overtime, the devil assaults intensify, so you must develop fast!
To make the map more challenging and engaging, I've made a few minor balance tweaks: daemons damage is switched from its pitiful 9/1 to 5/5, making them more of a threat, they can take down buildings and armored units much more quickly. Archers benefit from armor upgrades, you'll have to opt between a blacksmith to improve your archers durability, or go for the more expensive keep upgrade to get rangers and bonus gold. Destroyers have 0 armor instead of 10, making the ship armor upgrade also worth consideration for the end portion of the game.
Zizany
128 x 128
DownloadThrough feats of combative prowess and superior leadership, you've established a vast and fearsome empire! However, your glory days may be at an end. Upon your return from a long and unsuccessful military campaign, you find that your misfortune is just beginning. While away, malefactors seeking to undermine your rule and usurp your position have been sowing seeds of discord and dispute among your followers, and things have fallen into complete chaos! Your dominion has broken up into seperate factions, only 3 houses remain under your command. Can you squash the traitors and reclaim absolute sovereignty of your lands?
The map concept is not my original idea, I've borrowed it from a map titled "Harleqin". I wanted to create something similar, but tougher, with more enemy bases, less resources, a more consistent enemy distribution, and greater focus on managing multiple bases at once. You start off with more peons and Grom as a hero unit, but you're alone against 5 enemies. Grom's damage is flipped from 16/6 to 6/16, making him much more effective at taking down buildings.
Walpurgis
96 x 96
DownloadIt's the night of the witches! And the Church is on a crusade to purge all witches from the land! Your coven has been cornered in the woods by their templar knights and their allies, you're surrounded from all sides, there's no choice but to fight back! The enemy have their swords and holy guidance, but you have the powers of hell at your disposal.
In Exorcist, I had the player play as Human, relying on paladins against dk attacks, so I thought I'd try the inverse this time, dks versus paladins! Death Knights are the only available fighting units, you'll have to rely on their dark magic for both offense and defense! The map is sprinkled with paladins, ready to exorcise your dks, making advancement into enemy territory slow and difficult. You also start with an Eye of Kilrogg for scouting purposes and keeping track of enemy movement. Another minor change is that smith upgrades apply to skeletons, making them slightly more durable and useful in combat.
Defend the Fort!
96 x 96
DownloadInspired on Blizzard's custom map "Great Wall", but with the roles inversed, you play as humans instead. You have to train and prepare troops to protect your castle from an incoming legion of 500 orcs! You have 30,000 gold, and roughly 2 minutes (at EF speed) to prepare for their assault. Units and upgrades develop twice as fast as normal. There's also a highscore side, maximum score is 256,500 points, if you manage to kill every single enemy unit flawlessly!
Mausoleum
64 x 64
DownloadA circle of necromancers have infiltrated the graveyards and used their dark magic to raise a legion of undead that threatens all land! People from Gray Hamlet have gone missing one after another, kidnapped by the evil necromancers for their unholy rites. You and your band of mercenaries have been tasked to cleanse the graveyards from the undead plague and eliminate the necromancers before more townsfolk disappear.
For a long time, I've wanted to make a map where you fight skeletons, and periodically get attacked by them, similar to wc1 dungeon maps, but couldn't really get it to work the way I wanted, so I scrapped the idea. Eventually, I discovered an old map called "Grave", where, similarly, you fight skeletons. The map features lined signs to simulate a graveyard, which is really cool and creative. This revived my interest, it provided both the perfect setting and the solution to a problem I faced, so I thought I'd give it a shot crafting a similar map. The player is limited to TH tech and towers are disabled. The gameplay is centered around the coordination of footmen and ballistae. The map is very easy, but if you like bullying skeletons with catapults, it can be quite fun.
If you want to make it more challenging, try to beat it without giving the computer a single kill, this introduces a few new tricks and precautions.
Non-standardSheep Purge
32 x 32
DownloadYou run a prosperous kingdom, but the sheep from all the farms are really getting out of hand! So, what you do? You hire a bunch of mages to cull their numbers! But the mages will only work for the duration of their contract, which is only a few seconds since you're paying them peanuts, you have to get in as many shots as possible to make every penny count! Unlike most other maps, this is a highscore game, there are no enemies to fight, and it's impossible to lose, your goal is just to kill as many sheep as possible, then, rescue the Castle in the center to end the game and get your awesome final score. Sounds lame? That's cuz it is, but if murdering sheep is your thing, you can claim a world record here.
My Big Ass Arrow
64 x 64
DownloadA beat'em up style map. You're a lone ranger armed with a bow, and a really, REALLY big arrow! But enemies have theirs too! Skillfully maneuver your way through ever larger waves of enemies and defeat the mohawk punk at the end to win! This is was more of an experimental map, I just fooled around with different projectiles, turns out archers armed with ballista bolts are pretty funny! :D
Catapult Defense
64 x 64
DownloadYou have a bunch of catapults, and must survive through 7 exciting waves of incoming enemies that get progressively tougher! Careful aiming, timing, positioning and cursing are crucial to win!
Devil Maze
64 x 64
DownloadWho doesn't love a good maze map? Specially with war2's wonderful pathfinding! There's a ton of maze maps, but this is my own spin on the genre. You control a peasant, and must work your way through an elaborate maze to the Castle at the top left corner. Since simply solving the maze is kinda dull, I've spiced it as much as I could, the maze is riddled with flying devils, you have to carefully evade them as you explore, so it's also a dodge 'em kind of map. But this is easier said than done, your peasant suffers from severe myopia, and can barely see in front of his nose! Along the way, you can pick dwarves, who function like powerups, they can be used to break through walls, or to distract devils away from the peasant. Just finding your way isn't enough though, the Castle is guarded by an evil ogre, and you'll need to do something about him! There's a time limit too, if you diddle around for too long, a new flying devil will come out and this one won't leave you alone! And lastly, the game also features a score system! Yeah! The quicker you complete the map, the higher your score will be! The highest potential score is 5,000 points, though I'm not sure if it's even possible to achieve that number, with all the stupid devils flying everywhere and everything.
12 Great Challenges (Humans version)
96 x 96
DownloadInspired by "Random Micro Challenge", one of my favourite maps in SC, I thought of creating something in similar vein for war2. There are 12 different micro oriented scenarios for you to work through, these are usually in the form where your forces are at a disadvantage and you must exploit weaknesses in the AI to win. Some levels are pretty straightforward, while others can be bit trickier to beat. For the full challenge, try to beat all levels in one big marathon, without using save!
12 Great Challenges (Orcs version)
96 x 96
DownloadSame deal as above, but you play as Orcs this time. There are 12 completely new challenges awaiting you! If you thought the human levels were too easy, these are a bit more hardcore.
12 Great Challenges (X version)
96 x 96
DownloadI really enjoyed making the first two maps, and there were still a few unit matchups that I didn't get to explore, so I thought, why not have a third iteration to wrap things nicely? Here, you control both human and orc units. The levels are even harder than in the two predecessors!
- Multiplayer Maps -StandardBridge Wars
96 x 96
DownloadBridges were absolutely awesome in war1, unfortunately, they got yeeted out in war2 for whatever reason. But, with some tileset manipulation, I've managed to recreate them! They're back in full glory!! :D
The bridges are all guarded by small groups of brigands, this prevents early rush and scouting, and encourages building up. The bridges serve as strategic bottlenecks, and provide access to expansion areas. They also give humans a good defensive position against BL, healing would be more manageable here too since combat on bridges is limited to fewer units. Since bridges are 3 tiles wide, runes could also see some use as well.
Originally I intended for this to be a 4 players map, but it just didn't work out as I had hoped, so I figured this would be better as a 1v1 map.
(update)
Added buildings.
Changed gold from 40k/30k to 60k/40k.
Added a no p6 version.
Some minor terrain tweaks.
Tic-tac-toe
64 x 64
DownloadI looked up, but couldn't find any tic-tac-toe themed map, so I went ahead and made one.
This is another 1v1 map, where both players start with 30k gold, and must quickly chop their way out of their confinement, then, race for the mines in the center. Whoever takes the middle spot wins! But, narrow gaps across the map borders allow for surprise attacks that can turn the tides. Note that there's not enough space to build a TH in the center cell, you'll need to clear wood to build one, so it's not as simple as first to hop a peasant in there.
Non-standardCatapult Defense (multiplayer version)
64 x 64
DownloadSame as the single version map, but adapted for 4 players.
