Marsh Madness and Marshy Shores

[Biz]

DE mod page: https://www.ageofempires.com/mods/details/94207/

Requires Definitive Edition and the following settings:

• 1v1 on ‘Tiny (2 player)’
• 2v2 on ‘Medium (4 player)’
• 3v3 on ‘Normal (6 player)’
• 4v4 on ‘Large (8 player)’
• Random Map (or DM)
• Team Together
• Optional: Team Positions

Only docks can be built on the shallows terrain.

Marsh Madness: Nothing can be built on the rock terrain around forests.

Marshy Shores: This is a similar map, but without the rock terrain. Screenshots can be viewed here.

Farms aren’t the only food source. Resource piles farther away from players are larger and can be risky to collect due to the inability to fully wall. This lets there be a counter against every strategy. Armies are essential. Navies are optional.

More details and pictures are available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZ4G-vIXt_32-iGQeFeHrHiDx5FIGkTs/view


Marsh Madness changes from prior versions:

• teamgame support has been added
• better forest generation. more guaranteed forests near player starts
• different resource distribution
• performance improvements

 

[Biz]

Added Marshy Shores to the original post and the DE mod. It is a clone of Marsh Madness, but without the rock terrain around each forest (and with different forest generation).

That adds the option to wall on land and build town centers beside forests, so it plays very differently. While that reduces counterplay against expansion, it's still not as booming-oriented as most maps because the edges don't give you free walls, and the big resource deposits are very far from your starting TC. There's also some fish, so early walling is a bigger opportunity cost than it is on land-only maps.