The founders have given us a ton of great feedback which we’ve been using to balance and add new maps.  So far, we’ve only had relatively small maps in.  The next update (which we expect to be next week) will start to add large and huge maps to see how well those work on your machines.

Below are the maps we’ve got. Click on the thumbnail to see them better.

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So these are some of the maps we’re going with.  The maps for Ashes are designed to range from small (like a city) to huge (size of a state). 

Early on, we’re just manually making these maps (they’re procedurally generated via our in-game editor).  This way, we can nail down balance and find out what kinds of maps people like.  Once we have a better idea of what is “fun” with these maps we then move into having more maps be created via algorithm so that you can have potentially random maps.

Do you have a favorite map from an RTS? Put it up in the comments section and tell us what made it fun for you.