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Ok, Name your favorite map(s) (just a few at most), and post a pic or a link to it as well.
The map can be a pro map, a tourney map, a map from this site, a map that a friend or fellow sc player made, basically, anymap at all worth noting.
*If the map is already named, just name it and you need pic. Try not to name alot of the same maps if you see people naming them already, i.e. LT, Luna, etc.

(4)Nostalgia http://www.panschk.de/mappage/WGT12-Nostalgia_1.3(n).jpg
This map is quite flawless and I love playing it. It gives me a good game 95% of the time.

(4)Dhalia of Jungle http://www.panschk.de/mappage/(4)Dahlia_of_Jungle(n).jpg
Underplayed in my opinion, this map has a great design and is quite balanced. I like the mid alot.

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Both were made by Rose.of.Dream btw.

Probably my favorite map recently would have to be R-Point...

http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=3523
http://www.panschk.de/mappage/(4)R-Point.jpg

So sexy...smooth design, the nat is embedded, easy to find, right by your choke, plenty enough movement...i've liked every game i've played on it so far. recently discovered it a couple weeks ago, but still very cool to me. Enough minerals for a 2v2, and interesting enough map design for 1v1.

another i love is paranoid android.

http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=3495
http://www.panschk.de/mappage/(2)ParanoidA...d_B0.90.scx.jpg

Unorthodox design, especially with the symmetry over the line y=x (Yes, i've been taking transformational geometry tests...), and enough minerals, good movement, big enough for a serious game but not too big such as 1v1's on "Continental Divide" (Yes, I've done that...)

Anyway, those are a couple. Anything but LT, luna, and recently played rush hour and took a 'shiz' on it.

and yenku, about nostalgia...i hear a lot of people call it a 'toss' map...me not being a toss player i'd like to know what makes it so good for toss and so much worse for other races..

Good call with both of those. I like them a good amount. I was deciding whether or not to name Paranoid Andriod.. I think the design is crazy but sometimes too directed along the outside.

Well alot of people think that they can fast expo on it, (like they can on quite a few maps) and there is no gas in the nat. Zerg needs gas deperately and terran gets few expos so some people think its a bit of a problem. But I think its the 2nd expo for each player that completely redeems the map, the location of it, the minerals/gas and how it can be used in a game. If its unbalanced it is very little and the map is still so cool imo. I feel so at home when playing this.

There was a time when 90% of my games were on PA... Fun map. Ill play you on it.

Favorite maps... Well I'll categorize them.

Professional Maps:
Gaia


Namja Iyagi


And some more that I don't feel like finding...

User made maps from BWMN:
S ignal


Road to Antiga Prime


Space Pirates


Crusader


Citadel of Adun


Neo Goddess of Day


Ebullition


Ode to the Sun


White Water


And more...

I really like Namja Iyagi and Gaema Gowon. But thats for 1v1 or 2v2...
Azure Plains is my favorite map (maps -> Brood War). I play it with 2 allies and three random newbs that join. Also Dark Continent and Untamed Wilds are great maps.

My favourite two maps are Bladestorm and Nostalgia. They're so fun to play on!

*giggles* Bladestorm...

Well, I can't say anything bad about it. I used to think it was the best map ever...Some guy playing it on Europe server when I went there because USeast had nothing but fastest possible...

Thats alot.. I like ode to sun, not a fav, but cool. S ignal is cool. Gaia is decent, heavy macro on that map i think. And Namja Iyagi.. I think its terrible.. That expo behind main farks things up..

Right on.

I don't play Melee too much but since I can't host I only join public games so I barely play those elite maps. I mostly play fastest and zero clutter.

You could play LT or Luna alot then, and I see nostalgia, and other maps every once in a while..

I'm not that good at LT. Too little gas/minerals. I'm only good at money maps

then at least practice on something like LT with comps....after you know what and when to build, it should be no problem. if you can get pretty comfortable with a normal melee-style map...then you'll prolly own everyone on a fastest money map (even though i'd just play normal melee maps now...) he he

lol we were all there once.

back when i played fastest i regarded LT as like teh uber 1337

and i thought i was 'mad good cuz i exp and drop cuz ppl dont get d bak ther'

Yeah.

Well anyway, sometime a few months ago I tried playing fastest again. I sux at it cuz I expect them to be smart, not fastest noob... Going a real strat of like M+M and some tanks doesn't work when they get 20 carriers.

o well

who does that vs toss anyway?? lol.

play as toss on a money map you win everytime. gateways produce everyunit you need, then again, hatcheries produce more.. lol, but they are slower off the start in money maps.

yes. with perfect play toss always wins...secondly, i beat YOU With m+ms while you were toss your "best race"

and fastest is not something i would be attempting to do a 'real' build order on...and i didnt know he was toss, 8 locations to scout. not like i scouted, not like i cared, its fastest...=/

oh come on, ive seen toss buile 3 nexus before actually building a pylon on fast.

oh yeah, arena is a wooties map

What the fark does that have to do with anything. That kinda pisses me off. Ill play you anytime. Just sign on, I have been on basically 24/7 over the weekend.
I wasnt at my best. Trust me.

Oh, I also remember you turtling on Ardens map, and i killed you with arbs and recall. Oh then, after i destroyed your base with all your facs you just stayed. Way to waste time.
That doesnt mean it works well.

(4)Arena by Starparty
http://www.panschk.de/mappage/(4)Arena%201.1(n).jpg
Fun map, recently one of my favorites.

...it has to do with 'something' by the fact of you saying "who does that v toss?"...that implies it doesn't work.

it killed you, so shh, its a valid tactic. and barricade...as YOU even admitted when i killed you twice on a 'pro' map you try to defend when the rest of players can actually say it's garbage..(lost temple)

one using that tactic.



No, really? And you think I was at my best in any of the games I played against you?

especially barricade...roflcopter as some would say.

and as T i used to get like 4 cc behind my base with comsat on fastest, workde pretty well...toss gets nex's behind it, depends if its 'nr 20' like those fastest noobs play.

im sure there's valid builds that 1: i dont care about because it's fastest and 2: i dont care about because they all sux0r my nutz0r

and yen, i KNOW you can play a LOT better. but you didnt. and i didnt. i got lucky twice and you went the wrong build twice.

However, when i say 'next game ima 2 fac and you're gonna go zlots' and then that's EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS, that's a bad sign.

i just sorta fixed my computer...i've been posting in school recently. i may be able to go on starcraft sometime and you can finally beat me the way i EXPECTED you to the FIRST time.

when did i say that

anyways, theres no "pro" map out there thats bigger than 128, right?

When did I say you did? =D

I want to play on LT.. Wow. What happened to me?? I usually hate LT and recently I have been hooked. I guess cause I finally beat a good Korean PvT and now I just keep playing them, and LT is all they play on as T..

eh, yea...

LT choke + siege tanks...It's disgusting really. I took out like 12 goons with 3 of em and like 5 rines, 1 med last game I played online.

It shouldn't be allowed, but it is. I prefer to think of other maps as more balanced but...once you haven't played LT in so long, it feels that it won't be too bad for a few more games on it.

What...

3 tanks and 5 marines is extremely powerful. I'm assuming the marines soaked up the damage (with medic healing) while the tanks cleaned up the mess?

The Protoss should have gotten zealots.

It's perfectly balanced if your opponent knew how to play.

ya...he attacked with like 20 zlots first.

which i microed to a bunker which i repaired....he was soooo noob... he didnt attack scvs till FOREVER.

Then he sent like 12 goons (no zlots, no temps, no dark temps, NOTHING)

But yeah...I was playing very veryyyy bad.

But still won. silly rep, i dont have it at my computer right now...i did game on diff 1.

im assuming you took the goons piecemeal...even with meds, pack of goons could easily overcome 5 rines.....and the 3 tanks may kill a couple of goons, but dang...either thats some skill or toss was retarted. and/or LT is just gay that way

If you mean completely slaughtered, yes.

They killed nothing. They 'almost' killed one marine, but they didn't...it was so silly (because that doesn't usually happen) that I took a screenshot of 7 dead goon bodies on the ramp at bottom base on LT. 7:30 base or w/e you may wanna call it...I still call 'em left right top bottom because I'm n00b .

And yea, for a while I felt threatened...but I got lucky. I played like garbage but still won. Twas silly, he eventually killed my exp and felt all proud.....I had like 2 tanks, 3 rines, 1 medic there...he thought it was my whole force.

30 seconds later I show up at his choke with more than 20 tanks, 16 vultures, and crap loads of M+M's, at least 30 rines. He was like "......" and I was like "..."

I love people on bnet xD. I don't usually win public 1v1 though....I'm shizzy ;P

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Almost forgot.

Yes, LT's choke IS gay that way ;P.

Highground with one entrance...against the computer AI you can put 4 tanks and a bunker there....mass turret around the outside, put wraiths on patrol, and walk away for 30 minutes.

Tis sad, all their ground assaults are terrible, air attacks are useless, except every now and then they may send 1 guardian to screw up the huge retarted noob line of turretsthat anyone builds in this anti-comp joke theory craft. Thats why you have like 4 wraiths .

I wish you could like take pro replays, and tell the comp to use the build orders and emulate the players and such. It'd be easier to practice against 'good' people.