posted 07-20-10 18:59 EST (US)
Hello fellow fans of Stronghold!
Allow me to reintroduce my self. I’m Josh, and I have been designing for stronghold for fun and myself for quite some time. I have one published map on SHH, "The Scottish regalia" I advertised one other map in this forum that I never published because I became to busy with school work. During the school year I very rarely played stronghold, but now I’m back!
I’m about to finish an original map for Stronghold, and I thought I would give you a sneak peak. The map is inspired by Lord Ako's "The Ice Age" as well as maps by Sulis and WL_D. The map's theme is Native Americans, more specifically the Iroquois, also known as Haudenosaunee (People of the long house.) The Map is Large (400x400) and the terrain is roughly based on the actual terrain where the Iroquois lived, my native state, PA. The map features the edge of the Appalachian Mountains, the Allegheny Plateau, and a non-specific river. The map includes some eye candy, including sunken apple trees to look like bushes of berries that your gatherers can collect, a bloody wolf kill made by using a combination of the magic eraser and the 1000 stones trick, and my favorite, 3 custom longhouses made from wooden walls and stairs! =P
You take on the role of Chief of the Mohawk Tribe, one of the 5 original tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy. A man calling himself "The Great Peace Maker" has come to your village to bring peace to the five tribes. He has instructed you to give a peace offering to the Onondaga Chief, the last of the five tribal chiefs to join the Iroquois confederacy. Be careful, as the Algonquians to the north will do everything in their power to stop the 5 tribes from uniting, Including sending their elite warriors to defeat you.
Screen Shots will follow soon, and as play testing by myself is coming to a close, I will be looking for 1 or 2 people to test my map before it is submitted.
Josh
"You see things; and say, 'Why' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw
My First Map - "The Scottish Regalia"
Allow me to reintroduce my self. I’m Josh, and I have been designing for stronghold for fun and myself for quite some time. I have one published map on SHH, "The Scottish regalia" I advertised one other map in this forum that I never published because I became to busy with school work. During the school year I very rarely played stronghold, but now I’m back!
I’m about to finish an original map for Stronghold, and I thought I would give you a sneak peak. The map is inspired by Lord Ako's "The Ice Age" as well as maps by Sulis and WL_D. The map's theme is Native Americans, more specifically the Iroquois, also known as Haudenosaunee (People of the long house.) The Map is Large (400x400) and the terrain is roughly based on the actual terrain where the Iroquois lived, my native state, PA. The map features the edge of the Appalachian Mountains, the Allegheny Plateau, and a non-specific river. The map includes some eye candy, including sunken apple trees to look like bushes of berries that your gatherers can collect, a bloody wolf kill made by using a combination of the magic eraser and the 1000 stones trick, and my favorite, 3 custom longhouses made from wooden walls and stairs! =P
You take on the role of Chief of the Mohawk Tribe, one of the 5 original tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy. A man calling himself "The Great Peace Maker" has come to your village to bring peace to the five tribes. He has instructed you to give a peace offering to the Onondaga Chief, the last of the five tribal chiefs to join the Iroquois confederacy. Be careful, as the Algonquians to the north will do everything in their power to stop the 5 tribes from uniting, Including sending their elite warriors to defeat you.
Screen Shots will follow soon, and as play testing by myself is coming to a close, I will be looking for 1 or 2 people to test my map before it is submitted.
Josh
"You see things; and say, 'Why' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw
My First Map - "The Scottish Regalia"
Also, could you be mor specific about your comment of interwining the river with the plateau? I dont want to add river on the plateau though, because i'm trying to recreat a satalite image i saw of the plateau, where everything looked flat, with rivers cutting away sharp valleys in the plateau. The best example of this is the small part of river in the top left corner.
