Broadwater, the Large map

A wide country cut by a river, a bridge in the east and a ford in the west. Broadwater is 36×36 tiles, about 7 times the ground of The Causeway Meres and Reedford. It is an experiment beside those two: a new match never lands on it by chance, you pick it in the Conquest panel. Your town sits at column 19, row 3, on the near third; Haskett’s lair at column 19, row 34, on the far third. Columns count from the west edge, rows from the near (town) edge, as on the resources page.

Tiles

36×36

Par days

18

Towns

2

Lairs

38

Wardens

3

Mines

12

Dwellings

11

Chests

28

Piles

86

Watchtowers

4

Places

6

The two towns

Broadwater is the only map with a second town. Yours flies your flag from day one. The other stands at column 14, row 28, on the far third, held by nobody, with a horde lair at its gate. Its troops are drawn from the match seed: in one match it was 8 Crossbowmen, 1 Drake and 4 Knights, and beating them paid 300 gold and 490 XP, and 2 Crossbowmen joined (what each lair size pays). Walk in after the fight and flag it. From then on it is a town of your own people: the same 4 buildings at the same costs, paid from the one purse. Each town keeps its own one-building-a-day limit, so with both flagged you can put up two buildings a day, and each sells its own weekly stock of creatures.

Mines

Broadwater holds 12 mines, every one behind a lair, and it is the only map with gold and crystal mines. A flagged mine pays every day; if you flag them all, the map pays 1000 gold, 6 wood, 8 ore, 3 crystal a day.

Dwellings

There are 11 dwellings, several of a kind, each refilled at the start of every week (every 7 days). A dwelling sells the creature your people hire there (which creature for which people).

Lairs, piles and chests

38 lairs stand on the map, 3 of them wardens; most stand in front of something worth taking. What is inside each is drawn from the match seed within its size (the sizes).

The 86 piles are picked up by walking onto them; most hold a fixed resource, 43 hold one drawn from the seed. The 28 chests each offer gold or XP (the amounts).

Watchtowers

Walk onto a watchtower once and the fog lifts for good on every tile within 9 of it. Broadwater has 4; the two small maps have 1. A watchtower gives nothing else: no gold, no troops.

The roaming rules

Broadwater is a map to explore, and its rules say so. There is no day limit: the match goes on until you beat Haskett or lose your army, and its 18 days are only the score’s par (100 points for each day you finish under it, none past it). His lair is not sealed: you may fight him on day one. The 3 wardens are still there (the near third, west side, the middle third, east side and the far third, west side), but they never grow, and each one you break takes 15% of his might away, so with all 3 broken he fights at 55% of himself.

Haskett on Broadwater

He starts stronger here and grows more slowly: 70% of his full might on day one (14% on The Causeway Meres and 10% on Reedford), then 2% more each day (3% on the small maps), less 3% for every lair you clear. Breaking a warden counts as clearing a lair as well as taking its own share. These numbers are before any Warpath level. His hit points follow his might:

So waiting still costs: on day 18 with no warden broken he is at 104%, while a hero who breaks all 3 wardens by then meets him at 52%. How Haskett fights.

More: Codex · Resources, mines and the town · The Causeway Meres and Reedford · Lairs

Play Pick the Large map in the Conquest panel to play Broadwater.