Great wizards is a map based off of the AoS/DotA genre. It is a team game. In conjunction with allied & automatically spawning NPCs, players must break through the enemy defenses to destroy their Magus Archivum. Every player will have one Wizard, which can cast spells from one of five tomes: Ignas, Eruo, Custodia, Antiquus and Glacies.

At the beginning of the game, a player will use his wizards to spend his starting 3500 experience to buy some spells from one of the five tomes. Each tome has five spells, and each spell costs 1000 experience (experience is gained through kills), and the cost goes up by 1000 for each spell in a tome you buy. Each spell costs a certain amount out of 100 mana, represented by gas, which constantly regenerates. The spells in each of the five tomes are:

Download at: http://www.staredit.net/files/248/


Download at: http://www.staredit.net/files/248/

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Apr 18 2008, 10:54 pm by Tank_7.

Fun game! Been testing this, it is one of my favorite (if not favorite) Starcraft UMS.

All the spells make it very replayable and strategic.

I've seen this map played frequently on Battle.net, but I have yet to played it, but it sounds excellent. Also, you forgot the download link .

Sorry, here's the download link:
http://www.staredit.net/files/248/

EDIT: The original post has been edited to have the link @ the top & @ the bottom. My bad for creating this post, I couldn't find the Edit button. I dont think I am able to delete.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 18 2008, 10:42 pm by Tank_7.

Sounds really fun! Looking forward to playing it. However, something to improve on for a next version(if you make another version) would be aesthetics. You could disable/enable/enable the firebats so that they're invisible(breath of fire), and same with the dragoon(floating fortress).

If Breath of Fire invisibility was added, it would be very annoying for opponents, not being able to see something blocking you.

Maybe that's a good thing, and you can see it; the shadow is visible and the ground is kinda blurry.

I've played this twice, and its very fun. The spells effects are excellent. I love the fact that we can use multiple spells at the same time. Great for making combos.
Spells I'm personally fond of:
Teleport (Really makes up for the templar's slow movement; great for quick escapes)
Soul Rip (comboes nicely with Wall of Ice)
Dormant Energy (I just enjoy placing mines around the place)
Pit Lord (just plain cool)

I did find a bug, however. If you use Wall of Ice, and order the Science Facility to land somewhere, it will not be moved back over the exploding dt. It doesnt really cause any problems aside from a temporary wall, since it disappears when Wall of Ice wears off.

Yeah, if people want to be dumb and make their wall worse by landing it, I say let them.

One of my favorite combos is Doom + Glacial Prison. You and an ally walk in, then you cast doom and your ally Stasis Fields you so you're fine for most of Doom's casting duration (though not all).

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Apr 19 2008, 4:16 pm by Impeached.

There alot of combos possible, and some are INSANE but I won't tell you what

Teamwork is also a huge thing, i.e. if two wizards teleport to the same place at the same time... they can like... asassinate an enemy wizard. So you have to chat with your allies, make plans, and try to anticipate enemy plans.

This map looks really awesome. I'm looking forward to playing it later. The spells look really extensive, without being overly complicated, which is great for the general public. Nice job

Just played it. F***ing awesome. However, one thing I don't like is having to hotkey so many shuttles However, despite that, it was quite intense.

It's probably the best possible system for the high quantity of spells, though. And it's easy to get used to, once you remember which shuttle is which tome.

Great map, but the spells could use some work.

I understand that it takes a long time to make good spells for each player, (trust me, I've been there,) but if you can pull it off, your map will be liked a lot more.

...And you end up giving absolutely no solutions to this alleged problem with the map, that no one else has found. The spells 'could use some work'.

It isn't an alleged problem, it's a possible improvement. I'm saying that, while I'm happy with the map as it is, more could be done to make it even better.

I don't need to give 'solutions' -- it's only a comment. I'm being a critic, and telling the map's maker that things could be better, although I do say that it is a, "Great map.".

I don't know what you're getting at by disagreeing with my post.

K, sorry, your wording made it sound like there was a big problem with the map.

And there are enough units left for one, maybe two tomes.

Very good map, recommended to all.

Props to Tank.

Unless your aka is Life2Death, he stole this map.

THAT's not good.

Can't wait to play this, it looks like teh rawrz.

One small thing: I have almost finished a Scanner Sweep detection system, and when I finish it, maybe you could use it instead of Wraiths for teleportation? (WARNING: Every time I mention it, people start asking me how I do this. Don't ask, I'll make a thread about it soon, once I get all the bugs worked out.)

EDIT: And that is an honest suggestion, not me bragging/trying to get minerals.