Map - Warchiefs

Warchiefs [WIP]

Introduction:
Hello. I'm writing my map (under construction) idea because I would like feedback on it, if it's a good idea, if it's a bad idea, what I could improve or remove, etc. I'm open to every critic.

Summary:
Well the Idea is basic but I think new. It is a kind of melee game and a hero based game. How it will work? Simple, when the game start you will need to pick a hero from one of the tavern in the middle of the map (note that tavern are removed when everybody picked). After choosing your hero, this one will simply spawn in a random location on the map (The map is not big, not small, its a medium size). This random location is a good place to start but you will be able to change place if it's your wish. Your hero start with an item called "Starting Emplacement", this item is used to build your Town Hall, Necropolis, etc. Your hero has the ability to build buildings, only hero can build in this map but you can train units to harvest gold or wood or both, which are different from hero to hero even if you have an two undead hero i.e the "Shadow Lord" (Undead Hero) and the "Ancient Lich" (Undead Hero) have a different set of Undeads buildings.
Your goal is to;

• kill the enemy hero
• kill the enemy town hall

Killing other people is not the only thing to do in this game, you will have to capture gold mines, lumber camp, find items for reward (this one is not decided yet), etc.

Features:

1. Fully custom heroes.
2. Good amount of custom buildings.
3. Large amount of custom spells.
4. New kind of gameplay.
5. 1-8 players.
6. Events.
7. and more...

Team:

• CrashLemon - US east - Creator
• Glitch_This - US east - Co-Creator

Progress:

Terrain - Done
Heroes:

• Undead, 2/3
• Human, 1/3
• Night Elves 0/3
• Orc 0/3

Buildings - 0%
Units - 5%

Looks interesting. I personally am not a great fan of melee, but it is something a bit different from the norm, and that's good. Not sure how it will work out, but it could be quite fun.

Well it souns pretty basic, but if you are going to create custom heros, spells, buildings etc. then it might be interesting.

Hero are all custom, except the model, and for the buildings they will have normal model but the trainable units will be different from the real melee games.

I.E. In the game, there will be 3 types of barracks for every races, a normal (1 melee, 1 ranged, 1 caster), an advanced (1 melee, 1 ranged) and a special barracks (1 special unit depend on the hero) , for the Shadow Lord the normal will be the Crypt (Ghoul, Cryptfiend, Necromancer) but for the Ancient Lich the normal barracks will be the Hall of Damned. In this barracks you will be able to train Skeleton, Skeleton Archer, Necromancer. The skeletons will have their cost decreased and life decreased but they will have a spell that give them a ##% chance to rebirth after dying.

Update: Added a Screenshot of the map, (The map is basic, no need of doodads all around)

Sounds good, I like how you didn't overcomplicate the buildings and units and stopped at 6 different units (you really don't need more, heck, you could do with less).

With some good design, this could be neat, especialy the dividing of each main race into factions gives some interesting ideas. The lich faction sounds great with it's skeletons, but perhaps you didn't quite finish that idea; you could have a skeletal mage instead of a necromancer. As it is, the faction appears kind of in-between the "all units are the same as other UD factions except the special unit" and "all units are uniquely themed for this faction". I say make up your mind to follow one of these two concepts, don't stay in between.

The Shadow lord's basic unit roster seems less interesting, he just has the basic mix of Warcraft's undead units; they don't fit together as well as the skeleton crew. You should either go for an all-neirubian crew, or stick with the same UD basic units as the other two UD sides.

Here's a nice design system idea: make the three basic units shared for all three heroes of one race, make the two advanced units shared by 2 heroes, while the special unit is unique for each one. That way, you would have 3 units of each kind, basic, advanced and unique.

I'll take this in consideration, Thanks

I don't know if I should ask this but I'm looking for heroes ideas and spells ideas... I could import spells from here but I would prefer to create them entirely. If you guys could post me Ideas in the format below it would help me a lot (try to create some new spells that are not so hard to make and please, don't overpower the heroes):

Hero Name : <Name Here>

• Model :
• Race :
• Principal Stat:
• Offensive [ ] / Defensive [ ] / Mixed [ ]

The Spells -

• Spell Name (4 levels): <Description>
• Spell Name (4 levels): <Description>
• Spell Name (4 levels): <Description>
• Ultimate Name (3 levels): <Description>

Sounds promissing. But like Captain Griffen said... I don't like melee maps too much either. But I'll be sure to try it when it's done. Keep us updated!

I like the sound of this map, if you need any help on heros/ units I would be glad to help.

Edit: hmm...must be blind or something, i completely missed the hero post.

If you want to help me send me a PM (im in need of idea