MAGELLAN'S MAP SUBMISSION Map Name: Edfupupi Lah (edfupup.mx2) Map Maker: Timothy Duncan MODIFICATION UPDATE AS OF 1/31/97 1. Will be last modification, unless I am informed of a previously unknown egregious error. 2. Change to accompanying text file (see bottom). 3. An email informed me of two areas that seemed to be able to be traversed but were actually "dead". These have been fixed. 4. A "dead" obelisk removed. 5. Made some areas more "dimension door proof" 6. Altered location of Town Portal Spells. 7. Added some rumors. 8. Shortened time limit to six months. MODIFICATION AS OF 1/26/97 1. Sphinx fixed AGAIN 2. Misplaced hero fixed. 3. More resources given to computer to eliminate unbought troops. 4. Two 'dead' castles fixed. MODIFICATION UPDATE AS OF 1/20/97 1. One dead sphinx fixed; one other sphinx changed. 2. End guy made a bit easier 3. Minor resource modifications. 4. One black dragon stack fixed. E-Mail Address: tduncan@haverford.edu Map Type: 2 Player Multiplayer ONLY Description: Be the family hero or the family idiot in a quest to restore proper heir to the throne, who, unfortunitely, is also the family idiot. Special Win: One Side Beats another (You and your human ally beat the computer. Blue Green Vs. All) Special Loss: Run out of time (9 months) Special Other: Coopertive Narrative: You'll get it when you play the map. All Human Sides Completely Play-Tested: Yes. Well, I've watched others test it. NOTE TO PLAYERS: I've gotton several emails about the last hero. If you've played the map before, or are playing it now and are stuck on the last hero, read on. If not, then this might contain a few "tips" that could be considered spoilers. I've received several emails from people claiming that the end guy was very powerful and that the only way they could seem to kill him was the use of Armageddon-Dragon combination several times. So I lessened his troops and again got a similar email. Intrigued, I tried it again myself, and at the end figured out a way to beat it without the tiring A-D method. Though it takes a week long consolidation of forces, it can be beaten (fairly easily) with the careful use of the BERSERKER and MIRROR IMAGE spells. I think this is the first time I have ever found Berserker a useful spell, but it is absolutely necessary because it A.) occupies that swarm of crusaders, and B.) eliminates all of the other ground troops. Just for comparison, the two 'good' heros had the following approximate stats and stacks. NOTE: When I say I, I mean the people who playtested it for me. It's a lot easier to write "I" than Ed/Bob/whatever... I was watching THEM do the following things. E.Lah - 30, 34, 30, 15. 90 bl.drags, 400 rangers, 90 titans and about 120 crusaders. E.Loh - 28, 33, 26, 23. 50 phoenix, 100 titans, 100 gr.druids, 20 cyclops. These troops were amassed with the (GREAT) help of Town Portal, of which there are two spell scrolls on the map. With all of the castles, it shouldn't be hard to get these kind of troops in the last two weeks of finishing off the normal computer opponents. Stats were gotton through the Ultimate Artifacts hidden throughout the map (though the buried Ultimate Shield was helpful - if it was the book or something that would have been unfortunate). Ok, so I sent. E.Loh in first and eliminated half of the rangers and a lot of the pikeman. This was before I realized how useful berserker was. E.Lah went next and the first thing done was to cast Berserker on the Crusaders. Well, it went pretty well from there... The end army was just E.Lah with about 70 titans. In light of this, I placed the Berserker spell on the map somewhere. If you STILL have questions, please email me...