Eighteen kinds of Beyond All Reason map
A style is the shape of the land: where the hills, cliffs, water and ramps go. Pick one and Eclipse makes a new map of that shape every time — same rules, different ground. Here is what each one plays like.
Open land
Rolling ground, soft hills, a few plateaus. The map most games are played on.
8×8 to 32×32 · 2 to 16 players, 2 teams up to FFA
Valley
A low valley between two heights. Whoever owns the high ground owns the artillery.
16×16 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Land bridge
Two land masses, water between them, and one or two strips of ground that join them.
24×24 to 32×32 · 2 to 4 teams
Little mountain
One mountain in the middle with ramps up it. King of the hill.
8×8 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Mountain range
Ranges that divide the map, passes that join it. Bots over the top, tanks through the gaps.
8×8 to 20×20 · up to 16 players
Multilevel
Terraces. Several levels of flat ground stacked up the map, with ramps between them.
8×8 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Drop plateau
Plateaus with sheer drops. Expansions sit up on plateaus reached by a ramp or two.
8×8 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Centre lake
A lake in the middle, land all round it. Ships in the middle, flanks on the shore.
12×12 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Fractal land
Noise-shaped land: broken, uneven, full of small heights and hollows. No two games alike.
8×8 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Fractal plateau
The fractal land, raised into plateaus. More cliffs, more ramps, more levels than Fractal Land.
8×8 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
One island
One big island in the sea. Everybody spawns on land; the sea is the flank nobody watches.
12×12 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Big islands
A few large islands, far apart. No land route between them. Naval, with real bases.
24×24 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Small islands
An archipelago. Many small islands, lots of water, every unit that floats is useful.
24×24 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Fractal navy
Fractal terrain with the sea let in. Coasts, inlets and channels nobody planned.
8×8 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Rivers
Rivers cut across the land. Crossings are the chokes; the water itself is a lane.
8×8 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Rivers and oceans
Rivers inland and sea at the edges. Land, shallows and open water in one map.
8×8 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Flooded
Mostly water with islands of land. A naval map where the land is what is left.
12×12 to 32×32 · up to 16 players
Setonish
Two land halves and a strait between them, in the spirit of Seton’s Clutch. Navy in the middle.
16×16 to 32×32 · 2 teams