Abandoned Kingdom [6.0] is submitted for review.

[Moonknight]

New map: Abandoned Kingdom [6.0] by Moonknight.
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[Moonknight]

Landlocked some of the cities in the starting areas so that sea serpents can't come and destroy everything (but can still cause havoc).

[KGB]

Were they really that big of a problem? It takes a long time to build / reach the far end of the map and a couple of defenders hold off a rogue Serpent. In the 3 games I played on this map the game was not decided by a couple of Serpents attacking the home area but rather in other places.

Now you have much longer paths to reach some of the cities due to water preventing walking straight to the city across swamp. Also you protected different city values (in the North the Mino city can be reached by Serpents but in the south it can't).

KGB

[Moonknight]

I've watched a couple of ladder games played by Atomic and the games were over by turn 12 b/c he started with serpents from the beginning and went directly North to start razing empty/lightly guarded cities.

Maybe it was his opponents' fault for not scouting/guarding...

I will fix the evenness of the landlocked production.

[KGB]

Turn 12! That's on his opponent then, not on the map maker. By turn 12 you should have a couple of defenders in your cities or be scouting for incoming armies.

Also some games won't even have gold for early Serpent production (need at least 900). I've played 3 games on this map now and in 2 of them there wasn't gold for initial Serpent production and Orcs were a more important purchase to move across the swamp. Serpents eventually got made but it wasn't on turn 1.

KGB