The Old City

realistic layout. It's large, as you may have guessed, but even for a six-player map you'll never run out of room. Master Z mentions how much time was spent on tweaking the aesthetic aspects, and it shows that the time was well-spent. The decal usage is down to a tee, and there are several places where I could recognise extremely different decals used together to produce the effect of a "combo decal", of sorts - one or two of these combos seem a little unorthodox, but they're used very well. It looks great, bottom line. You'll have a lot of fun sending your armies trampling through the ruins in search of your enemies, that's for sure. Many areas of the map will also grant tactical elements to the fight; obviously, cover and high ground are important, but I spy several areas where I would [b]love[/b] to bait an enemy and then ambush with a stealth/artillery strike. Oh yeah, there's some nice killing alleys alright.... My only regret, is that DoW doesn't have any form of trebuchet. A siege just ain't a siege without a trebuchet, y'know. ~Kouen
Is it a village? Is it a city? No, it's an OLD city! Yeah, that doesn't make much sense to me either. But this is a city. And it is old. And it's a good urban battlefield, with a relatively