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WeeWar Map Balancing Tips

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Image via Wikipedia As promised in yesterday's Interview with WeeWar's most popular cartographer , here are Stirling's map balancing tips.  This is a must read if you want to make good playable maps that people will enjoy: Chess is pretty balanced. Same units, same starting positions, no income. The balance is broken when 1 player moves first and the other second. So given an even start the most unbalancing factor is player skill and a mapmaker can only do so much to balance ... Read More