Worst map possible

[DLaurier]

I'm trying to design a map so awfull that it will give players and their pixeltruppen nightmares for years.

Any suggestions?

[Erwin]

Make it a complex warren of heavily wooded terrrain honeycombed with uncrossable terrain so that it takes the player hours of creeping around doing recon and fearful of ambushes before he realizes he can't actually get to any victory locations.

[DLaurier]

I may incorporate something like that into it.

[Holman]

One huge warehouse-like building covering the whole map, with internal walls and doors at random.

Double bonus points if you can make it Escher.

[nik mond]

Have lots of bridges and place anti tank guns to shoot under them from the other side of the map.

[Michael Emrys]

Just get rune to do it. He's expert in causing player misery.

Michael

[DLaurier]

Just get rune to do it. He's expert in causing player misery.

Michael

Rune has competition.

I wanna make the map that gives HIM nightmares

[LJFHutch]

One huge warehouse-like building covering the whole map, with internal walls and doors at random.

Wow, you're good! And by that I mean bad That really would be quite possibly the most horrendous map ever made, worse still if it was all created using the tallest but smallest buildings.

[JonS]

There's a building like that in the last battle of the CMSF:UK campaign. Apparently it's a little challenging.

[Splinty]

I would combine Erwin's impassible terrain with Martyr's warehouse and surround the whole thing with steep hills.

[womble]

I would combine Erwin's impassible terrain with Martyr's warehouse and surround the whole thing with steep hills.

Why would anybody even bother playing on such a map? Morbid curiosity, maybe? As a thought-experiment on the elements needed to suck the fun out of a game, this thread might have some puurpose, so here's an escalation:

Divide the map into four zones each a bit like Splinty's combination of nightmares. Have a broadish cross of relatively passable terrain separate the sectors, then fill the gap with bridges. Especially tall bridges over short bridges over roads. Make sure there's a mix of good and bad terrain on bridges near each other. Make sure the setup zones are not in the same sector as any VLs.

[RockinHarry]

All of the above + night battle + pouring rain + some nicely burning truck candles, for individual lighting of parts of the map....

[womble]

All of the above + night battle + pouring rain + some nicely burning truck candles, for individual lighting of parts of the map....

Oh, and high wind so you have the constant wailing in your ears...

[stoex]

And of course don't forget to give the US AI several dozen batteries of rocket artillery, and have them deliver it liberally to the entire map. Also give the player only 10 minutes to reach the objective. Give him a battalion of immobilized Kübelwagens at the start, then reinforce him with a single truck and a green sniper team (half strength and severely low ammo) after five minutes.

[IRUNSAMOK]

Barbed wire. Everywhere. One platoon of engineers locked in a small setup zone with enemy trps all over it.

Trucks. Lots of them with no room to manuever and nowhere to hide.

Large arbitrary elevation changes, after all whats the point of a horrible and unwinnable scenario if the map is pretty to look at.

Reinforcements arriving within LOS of enemy AT guns. Theres an unplayable stock CMSF scenario that starts your mech company in sight of enemy T72s. Like within 200m if them on wide open ground. We can learn something from that.