Battle of Aiur, StarCraft map

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I would love to get a starcraft themed map which features a battle on Aiur between The OverMind as Red team core and Protoss Judicator Aldaris for example who is sitting in a Conclave Nexus.

Objective can be a neutral escort mission of a terran SCV carrying resources to build your push army.

Or resources appear at definitive places on the map that are going to be harvested by every team workers which must be protected until they collect them and get it back to your core.

Zerg minions will be 3 melee pigalisks ( Mini ultralisks that appeared in the secret lab mission in wings of liberty campaign), one infestor or defiler in the middle and 3 hydralisks at the back
Catapult will be a Ravager

Protoss Minions will be 3 Melee Zealots , one High Templar and 3 dragoons , Catapult can be Reaver or Immortal.

Two Hybrid bosses on the map , 1 is a Hybrid Behemoth and the other is a Hybrid Dominator

One Elite Camp at each side consists of Two Hybrid Reavers and Two Hybrid Destroyers which will serve as bruiser camps and siege camps combined without the spell Armor bonus of the former

Objective pushing waves can consist of any units of choice , however I would love the objective to be introduced as an advanced A.I ally that can be pinged to follow players like allied A.I heroes , objective can have a couple of supportive spells from StarCraft as well like Infestor’s Fungal growth and Sentry’s Guardian shield for example.

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I would love a Zerg vs Protoss map.

But few nitpicks here: Don’t know why pigalisks. Zerglings make more sense.
There should’t be hybrids because timelines.
The A.I. hero would be pretty unreliable IMO. Could be iteresting if objective granted powerful items to winning team.

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Well , because they look funny and they are morr tanky than a zergling which makes them logically more acceptable to fight an even number of Zealots

A.I can be great if designed to be , I even think about not building an Army but a few of allied units with good stats and abilities and can be pinged indvidually , so heroes can ping different units and split to open more strategic moves , it will feel like you are fighting 8v5 for example.

You are absolutely right about Hybrids timeline part But Timeline is lost in this game anyway :smile:

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Battle for Aiur.
Mission:
Blue team: Help Tassadar to reach Overmind.
Red: Don’t let Tassadar reach Overmind.

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We can have the Gantrithor instead of Tassadar just because he is a playable hero :sweat_smile:

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Tassadar would have %100 win rate in it

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Hahahaha , you need to consist a team of Tassadar , Zeratul, Fenix & Raynor :smile:

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Imagine be in a group of pure protoss heroes but in the side of The Overmind.

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Infested protoss …

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In general, I’d say the theme is interesting, but the objectives and bosses don’t match up that well, either thematically or balance wise.

*Pygalisks

This map would be from SC1, so Hybrids are a big no-no. They’d fit much better on an SC2 map, especially a Void themed one.

Also, shame on you for not picking a Brutalisk and/or Colossus for the boss(es). They may not have actually appeared in SC1, but they at least existed at the time or before then. Failing that, Cerebrates or Stone Zealots would also fit just fine.

Zerglings are far more fragile, like tissue paper by comparison. Pygalisks would match up to Zealots much more evenly considering Zealot’s formidable abilities in canon.

Observers could make for great items if they added item camps. Reveals a large area for a long time, and is cloaked.

That sounds like an excellent PvE Brawl.

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Where do you think the Storm is happening?

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Hybrids existed but were sleepers & hidden , and more importantly timelines are mixed in The Nexus so it is absolutely fine

What ?

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i would love a protoss vs zerg map !
it would fit the starcraft dynamic of that great war between races , and currently there are no such feeling in Hots regarding the SC maps , so this would be a awesome addition !

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This is how AP works.
Horde heroes on Alliance side and Alliance heroes on Horde one.

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Raynor, no
Artanis and Probius. (Or wait, was artanis in that battle? I know he didn’t show up until Brood wars, but wasn’t his lore about him being part of the battle against the overmind?)

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Raynor yes of course , he fought with the protoss to the end and participated with his terran army against the overmind

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They actually didn’t. There was Hybrid research being conducted in SC1 (added retroactively with the SC1 remaster), but the first Hybrid to actually exist, Maar, was actually created during or right before SC2 WoL. It certainly was not as far back as the Fall of Aiur.

We don’t see those mixed timelines inside the maps themselves. The maps are from all sorts of different times and places, but everything inside that map is thematically consistent (aside from the heroes). You don’t see Void or Fel creatures/entities on AP for this reason.

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Before they start adding more maps, they need to make a tutorial.

We have a million maps already and ppl don’t know how to play them properly.

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The Secret mission was always part of BW. You just have complete certain mission in a minimum time.

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I agree with that provided the story we were provided , however if you remember the secret mission Dark Origin in brood war , Duran told Zeratul that the hybrid he saw has nothing to do with kerrigan although her infestation has progressed his experiments a little and that he seeded the hybrid already on many worlds , the conversation says explicitly that Hybrids were made already or basic versions of them like the Hybrid Reaver .

That doesn’t really limit anything , Mercenaries on braxis and warhead are infested terrans and when you capture them they go in lane as healthy terrans

Exactly

It’s the players problems