AoE2: Tiniest 4 Lakes map for 4 players (showcase)
0"Tiniest" is a relatively new setting where the size of the map is only 36x36 as opposed to the typical 120x120 for 1v1, or the typical 160x160 for 2v2.
I felt that the map generations in T90's series might be a little too inconsistent, with e.g. the woodlines blocking off half the map and leaving the other half without wood, so I tried to build a more standard map generation, at the cost of it no longer being a random map.
While this is a 4-player map, it shouldn't be too hard to change into a 2-player map by replacing the other 2 starting TCs with woodlines, replacing their 2 Stone with 1 Gold, replacing their 2 boar with 4 deer, and deleting the rest of their starting resources.
I recommend a pop limit of 25 for 4-player games, and 50 for 2-player games on this map size.
Unfortunately, I can't upload the map because I only own Age of Conquerors. If anyone wants to rebuild the map 1:1, I can try to assist with screenshots and descriptions.
Starting from the north corner, let's go southwest and count, for each row, how many tiles southeast something extends.
First is the lake (shallow water), extending 7, 7, 7, 6, 6, 6, 6 tiles.
Then comes the shore (ice).
After that, we have 1 row of space.
Then 3, 5, 6, 6, 5, 2, 1 trees, for 28 total.
Another 3 rows of space, then 2 tiles of stone.
4 rows of space, then 1,1 tile of berries.
2 rows of space. Ice.
And finally 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 tiles of water.
The town center is 7 tiles away from the west pond's ice, and 4 tiles away from the edge of the map.
The gold is 2 tiles away from the TC's east corner.
Counting from west to east, the woodline on the west pond has 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1 trees, for 20 total.
The woodline in the center has, counting from west to east, 3, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 3 trees, for 28 total.
The west and east ponds each have 2 shorefish, 2 marlin on the diagonals, and 2 tuna on the sides. The north and south pond each have 2 shorefish and 3 marlin.
I hope that the animal and straggler positions can be replicated from the video.
From the north corner to the center, the tiles are:
Marlin, Marlin, water, Marlin, Marlin, water, ice,
Gold, plains, hill, hill+Stone,
plains, plains, Relic, plains, plains, Tree, Tree.
Other Videos By Iwer Sonsch
Other Statistics
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Statistics For Iwer Sonsch
There are 600 views in 8 videos for Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. About an hours worth of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings videos were uploaded to his channel, making up less than 0.37% of the total overall content on Iwer Sonsch's YouTube channel.