This topic is for discussion of map #707: Traitor Bird#2
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Author: FreshBananasHea
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On the other side of the planet you discover the spaceport. It is heavily armed. Set up a struc blockade and systematically destroy the enemy. Hint! Take the omni's around the defenses and destroy the high powered mire spawners.
Too large for the game, no interest to be found.
This map could have been 1% the size and been interesting.
The flanking mechanic would not have worked on a smaller map.
It would. Here, there were vast reaches of the map which sat untouched (the right is generally ignorable, the far left just soaks up mire, and ranges can be adjusted on the central cannons). There is plenty of space for flybys on the flanks, and well-managed Omnis can dodge 90% of a Ticon defence by regular changed in direction, as they run a linear extrapolation based on projected trajectory.