This guide is a work-in-progress! It takes me about 20ish mins to do each map so it's a little time consuming. I'll try to finish it over the winter holidays.
If you know the proper names for the treasure sets please tell me!
[spoiler=changelog]Dec 14 2016: Started guide. Added Amazonia, Andes, and Araucania.[/spoiler]
The purpose of this guide is to serve as a reference for any players not too experienced with RE maps.
- - There is a "quick guide" for each map comprised of a checklist and a longer explanation on some maps.
- The guide considers both standard and non-standard maps. Standard Maps will be marked with a " "
- Livestock numbers and images are for 1v1 usage.
Amazonia
Water: âś” (no whale)
Trading Posts: âś” (2 routes, 3 posts per side)
Natives: âś” (Zapotec, Tupi)
Treasure Set: Tropical
Livestock: x
A naval combat map. A river bars you from your enemy, so you'll have to invest in boats to get your troops
across safely.
Image courtesy of HeavenGames.
Andes
Water: x
Trading Posts: âś” (1 route, 3 posts)
Natives: âś” (Inca)
Treasure Set: Tropical
Livestock: âś”* (4)
Well-known in the treaty community, Andes has a wide-open central and southern area with cliffs in the
northeast surrounding the natives. The trading posts can spawn either in a v-shape or in a straight line
from southwest to northeast.
This map also spawns in a more rare(?) water variant with semi-fordable rivers that create isolated
islands around the TC area. Oddly, it seems that it's not uncommon for one player to spawn in the central
part of the map and another nested in the rivers.
*Llamas will occassionally spawn across the map (4 llamas alone in 1v1).
Araucania
Water: âś”
Trading Posts: âś” (1 route, 6 posts)
Natives: âś” (Mapuche OR Inca**)
Treasure Set: Tropical
Livestock: âś”* (8)
Araucania is a long, thin map with good water boom potential and good TP boom potential. Unfortunately, this map is quite low on hunt, and you'll either have to control the few hunts in the centre or rely on fish/berries after about 10 mins with most civs.
*Llamas will sometimes spawn on the summer variant of the map, with 6 in a pen in base for each player and 8 in groups of 2 in the middle of the map.