StoneHeart RDF v4.1g

Our Favorite Combinations

By far our favorite combination is to play RDF (Rocket Dorf Fest) RD Madness on Cage-6, Heroic or Legendary, 10 minutes Assassin, with the map off. Heavy Bacon (using Balls o' Fun) is also popular as is Giant Madness and Flare Dorfs. The Assassin game makes all your Dorfs targets. Having reinforcements adds many surprises!

All of the Anywhere multiplayer plugins play great on the Maze/Frenzy maps - especially Marathon Anywhere with Juggernaughts as Assassin targets. Oh man...

Another classic combination is RDF M+M Madness on the Pathfinder FFA-8 start, LMOTH, 4 or 5 minutes, map off. Because the Pathfinder Dorfs on this map convert to RDF Pathfinder Minis, the game tends to end with an insane semi-invisible battle at the middle. For those unfamiliar with RDF Pathfinder Minis, their Special Attack is a suicide explosion which makes for some amazing strategies and tactics.

Even more fun on the Pathfinder Map: RDF substitutes all Rocket Dorf types for Pathfinder Dorfs which means playing Giant Madness on the Pathfinder map gives you invisible Giants! The new Anywhere plugins also substitute converted units for the Pathfinder Dorfs. Try playing Captures with Wacky Balls (from Balls o' Fun). Yowza.

Trebuchets and Airships also make for extremely fun games on all maps, as do Bushido and UGR Anywhere.

Heck, there are so many combinations - and dozens we have yet to try - these are just the ones we play most often.

Wrath of Baak

Beware... Due to the nature of starting so close to the enemy on the inside maps (Maze/Frenzy/Cage), no one is allowed to attack until the Truce Off siren sounds - and I mean no one and no attacking whatsoever. Don't shoot at the ground, your comrades, a fence - don't even think about it. Anything other than Journeyman Healing (on Maze/Frenzy) will trigger the Wrath - and it can be pretty wrathful...

And just in case anyone complains that their units auto-attacked: all auto-targeting is turned off until the siren sounds. Keep this in mind if you put artillery units next to a fence that doesn't go up and the enemy is on the other side - they might auto-attack as soon as the siren blasts and consequently self-destruct.

True Scavenger Hunt

This map implements my special True Scavenger Hunt game type. With the help of Myrd at Project Magma (and some serious tweaking) the Scavenger Hunt balls are not only invisible on the overhead map, but are only visible when you are within visual range of them - just like enemy units! This means you must search for them like a true scavenger hunt. And of course, you can hide them too. Muhahahahahaaa...

All maps also include my special Scavenger Hunt balls 6 through 9, while inside maps add Ball "X" - a 10th Scavenger Hunt ball that never shows up on the Scoreboard. This means you won't know who has or hasn't tagged it unless you actually see it happen. We've only just begun to explore this new game type and think you'll really like it.

Note: The reason I say "my" Scavenger Hunt balls 6 through 9 and Ball "X" is because they are specially designed to work with my Balls o' Fun plugin (for standard Myth, WWII, ADT, Chimera, Wild West, etc.) giving you Wacky, Heavy, Giant, or Mini Scavenger Hunt balls. Take a second and ponder the permutations here...

Acknowledgements

Extra Special Thanks to ...

• The Members and Special Guests of the Order of H'Pak - past and present - for downloading so many versions of this map over the years (at least 38!), playing, laughing, and contributing in so many ways. You guys are awesome.

Special Thanks to ...

• GimpMask for the original Return to StoneHeart map and giving me enthusiastic permission to modify it and post my modified version to the public.
• Quesø for his brilliant idea of an "incremental small battle inside the cage" (where we brought units in from outside one at a time) which led me to create the Cage map, which in turn led me to create the slamming gates on Cage and the Frenzy/Maze variants. Still amazes me how often the two of us start right next to each other - it's uncanny, and always makes me laugh.
• The creator of the breakable Japanese Maple tree from God Head at Aleppo. I used it as a base for the modified trees I put on later versions of SHRDF so we could blast our way to the Bacon or Captures balls on the edge of the map.
• Myrd of Project Magma for adding the Patch 1.6 tweak to allow True Scavenger Hunt to become a reality. You're Da Man.
• The creators of WinMerge, Perl (I uses PHP now), and my trusty friend Vim, without whom I might just have gone 'round the bend when duplicating huge portions of the complex scripting for the inside maps (multiple times).
• Ozone for showing me the magic incantation to get the Subtract Monster Lists script action to work properly in v4.0g.
• GHOST for fail-safing the original scripts I created for Cage long ago. Although no longer used, this fail-safing taught me how to be a better script writer, which helped immensely in the completely re-written (and insanely complex) scripts for Cage/Frenzy.

Final Ruminations

SHRDF holds a special place in my heart (pun intended) because I learned SO MUCH about mapmaking over all the years and revisions of this single plugin. Hard to believe I started seriously working on this map in 2003 and it's been through 38+ revisions. Lots of new ideas (that always cropped up right when I thought I was done) combined with tons of hard work and excellent feedback from the OoH have all gone into the final product.

It's been one wild ride and I've loved every minute of it - even the minutes when I wanted to beam the creators of Loathing into deep space, widest possible angle of dispersion...

I hope you enjoy playing the end result as much as we do.

Feel free to comment on this map and anything else OoH, Myth, or game-related in the OoH Forums.

Cheers,
~Baak

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