[PL, EN] 20+ new XL scenarios from Huntka!

Spoiler:

Yesterday on Behemoth's Lair was posted an amazing news: 20 new scenarios of the biggest size were added to the Mapmakers' Crypt! They're all the work of Huntka. 4 of them are single scenarios, while the rest are grouped in a 4 campaigns. From what I've seen, some of them contain well-developed plot in English, and some of them are written in Polish. Check by yourself and have fun!

http://heroes.net.pl/nowina/3657

To download maps, look for the POBIERZ button under the minimap preview.

That's fantastic! I was seeking for something like that when I will miss H2 gameplay. Someone who tries these maps, please write your impressions in this topic.

I am especially interested in the maps which feature a developed plot. That was always my weakness in H2 scenarios, especially those coming with GOLD edition.

Napisze po polsku, żeby inni też zrozumieli bez tłumaczenia :p

Are these map just for singleplayer or is there an option for the hotseat? I would love to play on these with my gf

Ragoon wrote:

Napisze po polsku, żeby inni też zrozumieli bez tłumaczenia :p

Are these map just for singleplayer or is there an option for the hotseat? I would love to play on these with my gf

According to what we can see in description, there are at least 3 maps allowing multiplayer.

Tabris wrote:

Mapy pojedyncze:
Chessboard – Symetryczna mapa wzorowana na planszy do gry w szachy. Idealna do gry wieloosobowej.
Elven Aliance – Ciekawie zbudowana mapa, będąca niejako wstępem do serii The Legends.
Fields of Glory - Tutaj przyjdzie nam uprzedzić rywali w zdobyciu miasta tytanów. Pomogą nam najmniejsi sojusznicy.
Seven Plagues – jedna z najcięższych map z tego zestawienia, nie bez przyczyny opatrzona stopniem trudności „niemożliwy”. Mimo dobrej pozycji startowej i pięciu sojuszników zatrzymanie siedmiu plag wcale nie jest proste...

Crisis – zbiór trzech trudnych map, polegających na walce z czarnoksiężnikami.
Crisis I – Wojna domowa, nekromanci, czarnoksiężnik i wiele portali, słowem spore wyzwanie dla ludzi o mocnych nerwach.
Crisis II – Zróżnicowana mapa, w której zagrożenie nadciąga z kilku stron, a my musimy zdobyć artefakt mocy. Zdecydowanie zły wybór dla mających smokofobię!
Crisis III – Finał, w którym przyjdzie nam się zmierzyć z głównym złym oraz paroma przeszkodami po drodze.

Lightbringers – seria siedmiu map połączonych fabułą walki Gildii Paladynów z czarnoksiężnikiem Alkatarem .
Lightbringers I – Nasz sojusz musi rozprawić się z siłami zła nadciągającymi z północy.
Lightbringers II –Dobra mapa dla fanów rozgrywki w stylu RPG, opierającej się na rozwoju jednego bohatera i jego walce z całym złem tego świata.
Lightbringers III – mapa w klasycznym stylu pokonania wrogów, na co mamy rok, z małym smaczkiem w postaci Lady Sellith.
Lightbringers IV – Jest to wyzwanie z taktycznego punktu widzenia, gdyż musimy zdecydować czy umocnić swą pozycję, czy uciec za morze. Wróg ma odczuwalną przewagę rozwojową i trzeba kombinować.
Lightbringers V – Walka z głównym złym, to jest Alkatarem, który zaszył się wewnątrz góry zapomnienia. Oczyszczenie sobie drogi do niego nie nastręcza trudności, ale sama walka jest bardzo wymagająca.
Lightbringers VI – Rozgrywka w stylu „Król Wzgórza”. Naszym zadaniem jest opracowanie obrony rozległego imperium elfów atakowanego z każdej strony.
Lightbringers VII – Fabularny finał, w którym przyjdzie nam zmierzyć się z synem Alkatara na pięknej zimowej mapie.

The Legends – seria czterech map, których fabuła opiera się na wyprawie na tajemniczy kontynent i walce ze smoczym królem.
The Legends I - Mapa jest wymagająca i czasochłonna, należy dobrze przemyśleć każdy ruch, gdyż strata naszej bohaterki oznacza klęskę, a wrogowie są niezwykle nachalni.
The Legends II – Start jest nietypowy, gdyż musimy uciekać przed armią smoków i znaleźć schronienie na wyspach. Dobra mapa dla lubiących piracką politykę i kontruderzenia z morza.
The Legends III - Naszym zadaniem jest niedopuszczenie do śmierci księcia Orlyna, uwięzionego w samym sercu państwa czarnoksiężników. Pomaga naw w tym kilku agentów.
The Legends IV – Zakończenie serii od początku rzuca nas na głęboką wodę i musimy szukać sobie siedziby na ziemiach naszej sojuszniczki, królowej elfów. Należy działać szybko, ponieważ kiedy nasz wróg uwolni Smoczego Władce wszystko będzie stracone.

The Paladins – zbiór dwóch map połączonych motywem walki dobra ze złem.
The Paladins I – wybieramy pomiędzy Czarodziejem, Rycerzem i Czarodziejką i stawiamy czoła siłom zła.
The Paladins II – Obfita mapa, na której ważne jest szybkie zjednoczenie skłóconych ze sobą państw, w celu pokonania Czarnoksiężników.

P.S. Hell, you're a damn lucky person if you can play H2 with your girlfriend! I wish mine shared my passion for the game. We would receive a professional 2D/3D artist and designer in this case.

Here they come! Brave Knights from Huntka! @2016

"Welcome in Mad Lands, Traveller! Here is not easy to find a way. Somewhere in the Midland lies the Dragon Castle. There is hiding Warlock so You have to haste. Until eight months You have to kill him fastly or all your domains will be destroyed ghastly."

- 4 Human, 2 AI
- 4 Knights are in alliance and have to destroy their enemies
- fail to win by the end of month 8, week 4, day 7
Difficulty: Normal
Water: no
Language: English
Story: no
Type: Strategy

Spoiler! Minimap:

Download from Behemoth's Lair:
http://mapy.heroes.net.pl/mapa/850
Mirror (Google Disk):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sJkCdaB4jqv0VK34u26xQkI3MftfSNmG
Mirror (dropbox):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uzogbx3v3prylvf/BraveKnights.MX2?dl=0

I've just finished Spider wars, another great map from Huntka! @2015  Just take a look:

"Four daredevils try to attain power of the Order of Spider. Though they don't know, that triffling with the Order will incur a ruthless revenge of Undead. You have to defeat the Order and your rivals within a year. Otherwise you will be turned into Undead and you will serve the Lords of the Order forever."


- 4 Human, 2 AI
- Defeat all your enemies
- One year (month 11, week 4, day 7)
Difficulty: Normal
Water: Big continent
Language: English
Story: No
Type: Strategy

Spoiler! Minimap:

Download from Behemoth's Lair:
http://mapy.heroes.net.pl/mapa/884
Mirror (Google Disk):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UhsQI3gjIbBK0s7rlPmpMId0_ZNkEQWe
Mirror (dropbox):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r6y94qgyllr290h/Spider%20Wars.zip?dl=0

My result (normal difficulty, blue player):
Number of days: 127 days
Score: 132

My heroine reached 29th level!

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Short review:
Beautiful, wisely designed map. It's not that hard, but mines are rarely than usual and guarded by tough guards. Probably it could be a bigger trouble on a higher difficulty, were we gain less resources. Many dwellings of a neutral creatures allow us to experiment with new strategies. The only shortcoming is that computer also has less resources, so his progress is noticeably slower. Final score 8/10.

Huntka has uploaded his newest creation: Hammer of God. @2017

"The Barbarian Uncle Ivan decides to return to his motherland and repay his debts. To do this, he engages in a mission of returning dwarven Holly Hammer to a priests of the god of war, Zulfein. He get along to the Hall of Hammers - great dwarven armory located in a mountains. Unfortunately, without knowledge of a password he cannot aquire longed-for weapon. Meanwhile, the other heroes, most of them knowing password, also head out to the Hall of Hammers. You have to stop them from taking the hammer until you will discover the password by yourself. Good luck."


- 1 Human, 5 AI
- Find the Holy Hammer
 - Lose the hero Uncle Ivan
Difficulty: Normal
Water: Big continent
Language: English
Story: No
Type: Standard

Spoiler! Minimap:

Download from Behemoth's Lair:
http://mapy.heroes.net.pl/mapa/883
Mirror (Google Disk):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-LfdB3tjxGzaKFYefVgCNDh00tI_xyWz
Mirror (dropobx):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6yeilv2zh4a9k1c/HammerOfGod.MX2?dl=0

My results (Expert difficulty):
Number of days: 159
Score: 170

Short review:
Pleasing to the eye, satisfying map. Probably the only map, where we can claim more gold mines than sawmills and than ore mines taken together Instead, the map is covered with a dense web of labirynths, full of monsters and resources. In the late game I still didn't have many mines, so everyday I was exchanging my gold for the rest of treasures. The Holly Hammer is hidden literally behind every single tree and rock, but getting it isn't that easy as it looks

I was a bit irritated with an enemy Heroes, which were all the time coming out off  the one-way teleports (yes, here we can find a new type of them ). But even more irritating was the fact, that they were trying to go back through the same teleporters, which were guarded by a legions of black dragons. Of course all of them died immediately, but they were still trying, even when I wasn't chasing them .This way computer was loosing a terrible amount of his armies. Also, AI had a trouble with too few mines on a map, and didn't have resources to build a castles in the most of conquered villages.

That's why I've decided to give Hammer of God a bit lower grade; map would be really great, but computer is transparently weaker on this map, so the final note is 8,5/10.

@Uhm

Just to let you know that I was unable to download the files linked to OneDrive. The links to the pages work, but it's not possible to download the file on the page.
But it's always possible to download the maps directly from Behemoth's Lair.

Excellent! Keep them coming and catch them all!!!

It really warms my heart to know that someone is developing maps for Heroes 2 in 2017. This is what I hope to support with all the Mapmaking Guild section, and pretty sure GodRage will be happy to know that his Lands of Enroth work on the map search system may be pretty useful even in these troublesome times.

I wish Huntka himself was interested in joining this community so he could make comments on his maps, too.

@Unknown_Hero I've added links to the Behemoth's Lair download pages and uploaded mirrors on Dropbox. Hope that now everything works fine

@Orzie I was thinking about a little "cleaning" in the Mapmaking Guild. Most of the maps are taken straight from Age of Heroes and nobody checked them. I will bring some interesting maps, but before I will pu them here, I want to check them first

I am also very eager to meet Huntka, but unfortunately he (she?) didn't upload his maps personally, but they were all added to Behemoth's Lair collection by Fimrys.

I support the idea of cleaning. Top priority must be added to the most recent and high quality maps. What do you have in mind for the existing threads?

Well, I would delete most of the threads containing maps from Age of Heroes, but keep those of highest quality maps, giving them new, refreshed threads with at least short specifications. I will be looking for a new maps all around the Internet, but currently I know that only Behemoth's Lair and HeroesPortal.net from time to time receive new maps. I hope that our users will also add their favourite scenarios as well as provide a new ones

I am going to add more older scenarios in the future if time permits.

@Uhm

Tested the new links, everything works correctly now.

I really like the way you present each map with the description and everything.
It should becomes the standard.

It would also be nice to add a clarification as to whether the map is more oriented RPG or Strategy.

RPG: the player must make specific actions, somehow "mandatory" throughout the map to be able to finish the map. Predetermined actions to be performed and which can not be avoided: kill the Titan with 3 Peasants, go to this place, do this first then that, etc.

Strategy: the player has complete freedom to use his brain to achieve the final goal, nothing is imposed on him and he can decide or not whether to obtain the proposed benefits.

An idea for the maps in this thread.

Alright then, let's perform the actions Uhm suggests.

Concerning the gameplay, we can use "Standard" if a player has 1 hero and 1 castle and all gameplay is built over classic Heroes 2 gameplay. Full House map is also Standard.

Other options could be, for example, "Custom" if there are pre-defined armies (but not like Slugfest) and special conditions the player has to deal with, like with the THUNK scenario by Timothy Duncan from Gold edition official map list - that's what probably qualifies as an rpg element Unknown_Hero suggests, but there are other heroes who play it in a standard way. There could also be such options as "Puzzle" (Pandemonium), but I'm not entirely sure we need it.

I also like the review system you suggest.

Typical RPG or puzzle maps were created only for H3 and later Heroes games, there are not much of them for H2 and H1. Pandemonium is rather a "custom" map. I would add a category "multiplayer" for a typical tournament maps or standard maps with a well-balanced gameplay for all human players.

I suggest the naming example of "Standard, Multiplayer-oriented" in that case.

Yes, it can works. I would do it this way for more info.

Type: "Singleplayer" or "Multiplayer-Cooperative" (humans vs AIs) or "Multiplayer-Competitive" (balanced map for multiplayer) or "Multiplayer-Challenge" (not balanced map for multiplayer).

Gameplay Style: "Strategy" or "RPG" or "Strategy/RPG" (more Strategy oriented than RPG) or "RPG/Strategy" (more RPG oriented than Strategy).

Starting Conditions: "Standard" (classic Heroes 2 starting conditions) or "Custom" (pre-defined armies and/or special conditions).

Special: (for other specific info).

"Stay awhile and listen, my Friends. Listen to The Legends of the Forbidden Continent..."

The Legends I. By Huntka
@2013

"Shavana - a swashbuckler and adventurer engaged in a tough quest. She has to sail to the Forbidden Continent and defeat a sinister Warlock named Zynth. To do so, she has to gather armies and find five keys to the Valley of Eryun - place, were Zynth's residence is located."


- 1 Human, 4 AI
- Loss Shavana
- Defeat Zynth
Difficulty: Normal
Water: Big continent
Language: English
Story: No
Type: RPG/Strategy

Spoiler! Minimap:

Download from Behemoth's Lair:
http://mapy.heroes.net.pl/mapa/813
Mirror (Google Cloud):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cTII_F3zxn22Cuhise7aA3pASUHl9ccT
Mirror (dropbox):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fd3g9689ppoji65/The%20Legends.zip?dl=0

My result (impossible level): 172 days
Points: 188
I've found Ultimate artifact!
Heroine before the last battle with Zynth (33 level):

Spoiler:

Short review:
Every map made by Huntka is a little masterpiece. The true art, savouring the soul and senses. And so it is with The Legends I map, the first map in a five-part campaign. Here every little corner was created with great assiduousness and pietism.

Also the map's mechanic is unusual. None of the the towns that we will claim can be upgraded to a castle and every town offers a different dwellings. Of course we also cannot hire new heroes, so we have to care a lot about our freed prisoners, jailed in a few places on this land. I've never met with such solution, and I must admit that this changes gave me a completely new experience. Especially that my enemies didn't have such handicap . Don't go without a diplomacy!

This time I've also appreciated a one-way monoliths. They're resonably placed on the map and because of specifical gameplay I wasn't very concerned about loosing weeker towns, trying to keep only these with the strongest creatures available. The game was also more interesting because of the fact, that I couldn't get rid of accursed artifacts by sending a 1 level hero for a death, but I had to find a way to the Alchemist's Lab

What I dislike? Well, I hoped that behind a Desertic Abyss I will find a passage to a place, were my enemies came from. I was a little bit dissapoited to find out, that their main castles are totally unreachable. Well, maybe You will not find this a weakness, but I don't like when I cannot destroy everything that moves in a scenario Also because I couldn't hire heroes, I was unable to buy defeated enemies and I killed some of them around dozen of times. "Haven't I killed you somewhere before?" And the last, I am a bit sad, that The Legends doesn't contain a real plot, just a short prologue. It's probably the biggest shortcoming.

But it doesn't change my score, which still amount to 9.0

are these maps being converted to h3sw?

No. H3SW is about classical maps.

Now let's continue the tradition of posting Huntka's XL maps here.

"After the death of King Algor his sons break the covenant made between their father and the Goddess of Nature. To renew the alliance, one of the dukes must build the Statue for the Goddess. The one who manages to do it first will become the next ruler of the land. The map is intended for 5 players and is focused towards aggression between neighbours. The starting conditions are identical for all members of the conflict. All this is hardened by the floating city which cannot be conquered and spawns the dark armies of the continent.
The biggest obstacle in the game is not the enemies, because the neighbours are distant, but it is all about regular taxes forcing the player to take a peculiar playing style. Trade and keeping the gold converted to resources may be the key. Plenty of gold will be required because a player would need to collect a sum of 1000000, which is impossible without conquering the neighbouring islands and establishing a clever economical system.
Good luck."

Floating City. By Huntka
@2017

Original text (in Polish):

- 5 Human, 1 AI
 - Collect Gold
 - Lose all heroes and castles
Difficulty: Very Hard
Water: Continent
Language: English
Story: Yes
Type: Strategy

Spoiler! Minimap:

Download from Behemoth's Lair

You cannot hide! Monsters from Vermin's Crypt are ready for a hunt! Come and Die (or try to stay alive if you dare  ) in Huntka's adventure! @2017


- 1 Human, 3 AI
 - Capture Castle Drakenmoor
- fail to win by the end of month 6, week 4, day 7
Difficulty: Hard
Water: Islands
Language: English
Story: Short intro
Type: Strategy/RPG

Spoiler! Minimap:

Download from Behemoth's Lair:
http://mapy.heroes.net.pl/mapa/893

A damsel in distress! Are there any true heroes ready to make Dream of Ana come true?  
Courtesy of Huntka @2018


- 1 Human, 3 AI
 - Capture Castle Autumn Spire

Difficulty: Normal
Water: Negligible
Language: English
Story: Short intro
Type: Strategy

Spoiler! Minimap:

Download from Behemoth's Lair:
http://mapy.heroes.net.pl/mapa/1155