Custom Map #2388: Cannons WARs begin.

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Author: Eduardo Monteiro

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In this war we test our technology most recently acquired: Anticreeper cannons!!! Our cannons will protect you for a few minutes but they are no match for those potent creeper emitters. Soon, their projectiles will become denser and heavier. So, build up your defenses quickly.

[Neoshade]

Very fun map! Great strategy involved.

[Angel]

Very fun map! Great strategy involved.

Agreed. Someone should make a V2 of this map.

[StorminASU]

I must be missing something obvious, or just suck at strategy, but how do you win this level?

[Angel]

I must be missing something obvious, or just suck at strategy, but how do you win this level?

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Build enough reactors, pile up sheilds (slowly as you lose ground), have some launchers keeping the C level low, keep getting energy, techs, and eventually, send in some blasters on the side of the cannons, clear it out, and then go to the emitters and nulify them. (nulify the gateways before starting the seige.)
Waiting around and holding off on your base doesn't work.

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[teknotiss]

i tried

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going for 8/12 reactors then building shields over the decayable terrain. then building more reactors (without EVER going into energy deficit, this map needs good energy managment, i played most of this paused holding/pressing "n" to advance frame by frame) and when i had about 6 energy production, i switched to building 2 launchers (1 in each chamber) and more shields, along with more reactors (constant reactor building really), then i added launchers and repulsors in each chamber equally as i could afford to power them. i built no additional tech domes and i left the gateways till last, if you can control the creeper the drones will never escape till you are ready to open and kill them. i had about 4 blasters 4 launchers and 4 repulsors to hold back and kill each chamber, i also built makers and mines later to add AC to the flows towards the drones, just for fun really since 10 blasters were enough to deal with the drones when you go for it!

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hope that helps  8)

[EdMont]

Very fun map! Great strategy involved.

Agreed. Someone should make a V2 of this map.

Thanks guys. This was my first map. For sure someone could help to improve it with a V2. :) Some people came up with different strategy that I did not imagined.

[EdMont]

i tried

Spoiler

going for 8/12 reactors then building shields over the decayable terrain. then building more reactors (without EVER going into energy deficit, this map needs good energy managment, i played most of this paused holding/pressing "n" to advance frame by frame) and when i had about 6 energy production, i switched to building 2 launchers (1 in each chamber) and more shields, along with more reactors (constant reactor building really), then i added launchers and repulsors in each chamber equally as i could afford to power them. i built no additional tech domes and i left the gateways till last, if you can control the creeper the drones will never escape till you are ready to open and kill them. i had about 4 blasters 4 launchers and 4 repulsors to hold back and kill each chamber, i also built makers and mines later to add AC to the flows towards the drones, just for fun really since 10 blasters were enough to deal with the drones when you go for it!

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hope that helps  8)

Rá! When I made this map I did not foresee this solution :). My approach was different. I build up reactors as fast as possible and before the first creeper shot is fired I build up a shield barrier of two lines to hold off the creeper after it is being fired. These shields give you some time to build several Blasts to hold the creeper back of your shiedls. After that you just have to finish building lots of reactors and getting techs to your final attack.

[teknotiss]

i remember my first go at making a mid length map, i'd set a score i knew would be beaten (42 mins or so) and was surprised when it was approved with a 19 min time, then was down to 12 mins in a day or so.
there are some CW2 deities hanging about!  ;)
later dude, good map!

[Katra]

After several failures to hold the top of the map I ran straight down and set up my base BETWEEN the creeper cannons. Managed to finish the job after a couple more restarts. (phantom in the wrong spot - even though covered by phantom coils; I think there wasn't enough distance between launch and target for the coil to kill it.) and lost containment of creeper from the side. (If you do this don't forget to use shields as insurance against uneven creeper flow.