Profile of Rosbone

A prominent community member has requested this map get looked at. Here is my assessment:
(6) Oka River Frontline (v1)

This map favors the north a little. The main problem is the river. Most of the fighting takes place on the west side of the map in a 2v2 format. North has to cross the river to get to the west. South does not. There is no cover on the river and late game it can become impassable. There were also a couple garrisons that over looked the river so south could put MGs and North is pinned in their base.

1. Moved the south munition to the east side of the map. Now there are equal resources on each side of the river. Two VPs remain on the west.


2. Moved the right VP garrisons so that building A contest building 1. Building B contests building 2. The sheds have one door (BLUE line) and sight blockers so North/South attacks are negated (not possible).


3. The middle VP is closer to the south. It was moved as much as possible to get it balanced with the terrain. The South also had better access to the area from the road. The road was also a dead zone of red cover. Going on the road was treacherous at best. It was also annoying trying to move back and forth from the west to middle VP. So a hole(BLUE) was added to the cemetary at the middle building. This allows the the road to be used more for flanking and to quickly gain access to the new shed position. Sight blocker hide the shed from the west buildings.


4. Building 1 was moved away from the left VP so that it mirrored building 2 better for coverage. Several new opening were made so you can play the game and not try to solve a maze puzzle


The minimap in the unpacked files was bizarre so that was punched up as well.

Cheers

Everything all in one picture that needed fixed:
1. (BLUE) North MG areas(GREEN) were easier to flank. Added new path for south flank.
2. South had very little space for late game. Grove removed (YELLOW).
3. Both North bunkers had sight blockers. Northern most removed to closer mimic the southern sight blocker (PURPLE). North and South MG areas closest to VP(RED) are easiest to flank.
4. North did not have a enough space for an MG to hold by the west Munition passages. Grove size(PINK) reduced to give more sight and increased distance to travel for northern MG.
5. Cleaned up pathing allows for light vehicles and large AT weapons to get thru the forest lanes better.
6. The NORTH western based flanks (RED) are still slightly longer.
7. Added treeless pockets around VP for bunkers.


A) The river is red cover and favors the North by Munition and south by the VP. Balanced?
B) One of the Norths paths is all river (red cover).

It is still the forrest, so grab your blobs and pitch forks and go find Shrek

Data is great. It tells you some very cool things.

DEVILS ADVOCATE
It does not tell you who is vetoing the maps. There is a large range of player skill involved in the data. And there are players, like myself, who tend to not veto any maps until they have played them enough to find something they don't like about them. And that something may have nothing to do with balance. Balanced or not, sometimes a map is just not fun to play on.

Only the top 200 players (level 16) can truly speak to balance as they have played and strategized enough against players of their own caliber to get valid results. But even these players may not know why the map works. They just know how to get around its flaws in a way that fits their play style.

I think the poll represents these things:
- What Relic thinks needs to be removed?
- What the "inner circle" wants removed?
- (The vote) What the community feels when they play these maps?
- No one has offered any reason/desire to improve these maps?

There is one good reason to keep KFW. If the mods made to the summer version are disliked, players can veto the summer version and continue playing on the unmodified winter version.

Another thing that messes you up is when a tank targets some other unit than the one you want it to. So it just starts spinning towards that target. Pay attention to your VEHICLES ONLY button.

The only time I would call this a bug is when it targets units that are not in the game anymore, like the last guy running off the field when his team weapon is killed. You tank starts pointing away from the front lines and gets rekt shooting at a phantom unit

ok, so this map is now finally ready to go?^^
Time is running away.

I will keep fixing things to you tell me to shtaaaap

(8) Rosbone Forrest (v3)

1. Replaced a grove object with a custom made grove area to balance the distance between grove and optimal MG placement. The north grove(GREEN) was larger so it was much easier to overwhelm the north MG.


2. Balanced out the right VP territory(PURPLE). Also did some further path optimization and created empty positions for possible MG bunker placement(GREEN). Rotated sight blockers down narrow stream for better sight. Removed small tree sight block by northern MG bunker.