The Crater

A sea+tight land battle map. Recommended for 2 vs 2, in which the teams are Orange Star and Yellow Comet versus Blue Moon and Green Earth. Feel free to comment.

There aren't enough properties. Naval battles are expensive, and this map only gives each player 8 properties. That's only enough for a Black Boat. Combat will be very slow unless the number of properties increases...maybe add islands with properties on them?

Aha! Yes, the scarce properties are a noticeable issue on this map.
The number of properties I have put for a reason. Now this is a deceptive map where players would expect a positive result from early investment in the navy, however, ground battles will prove to be a more effective method to rush your opponents at the start and build up your navy later.

Also, the lack of funds at the start and the way they are positioned on the map seems to leave plenty of room for mistakes, where a failure to efficiently capture all of the 8 porperties would result in the players falling behind in consolidating their army.

Hmmm... im considering putting an island in the centre which would otherwise be useless

I havent actually played Dual strike so I not sure what effect this map would have on the battles. But I will post a Days of ruin version of this map, where ships are cheaper and more effective, plus I've used the new water terrain to make the middle part more useful.

Land battling on a map this chokey? I call infantry+indirect spam shenanigans. Even if there are cities in the center parts of the land paths. I'll also point out that navy warfare is generally seriously underdeveloped to the point where Game Breakers will quickly become clear.

Terrain, infantry, and indirect COs will rule this map out with ground battle, if they decide to anyway, also, it looks like this might be a pretty long game, considering how each army starts, you can´t even create a lot of units from both bases because there is not much space until you build a lander/bboat to transport your stuff.

also it wouldn´t hurt a few island in the center to place more properties, there is plenty of space, finally, if there is going to be ground battle, there is never going to be naval. simply because those 8K will be used to build arty-tank every other turn, along with some spammed infantry from the corners, saying that saving funds will get you naval warfare is unlikely, simply because you won´t build an infantry in order to save for naval when your opponent builds a vehicle each turn.

Too bad there arent sea bases like there is in Battalion Nemesis. Idea was good except it didnt follow through. My suggestion while keeping the concept is to make the map a bit bigger and add more cities. The others explained it why quite well so take their advice. Right now the map is a 5/10.