Twisted Meadows

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Map Information

Creator:

Fairfax McCandlish

Tileset:

Lordaeron Summer

Size:

124x124

Spawn Positions:

4, at 2, 5, 7, 10

Mercenary Camps:

Lordaeron Summer

Overview

Twisted Meadows is a four player map made by Fairfax McCandlish for Blizzard's 2003 Multiplayer Map Contest. It is one of the most popular 1v1 and 2v2 maps.

Official Map Description

The path twists, and the future is uncertain. Race for the center and the treasures it might hold, or visit a Goblin Laboratory and explore one of the small islands.

Notable Features

The islands in the map's corners including their goldmines can only be reached by air. This can be used to set up highly secured expansions.

The map contains four different types of neutral buildings:

• 1 Tavern
• 2 Goblin Merchant
• 2 Mercenary Camp
• 4 Goblin Laboratory

Strategies

Due to its size Twisted Meadows often sees expansion plays and highly teched high-upkeep armies fighting. The Goblin Laboratories allow for a great harassment potential via Goblin Zeppelins and Goblin Sappers.

Human

Creeping can be done effectively by fast-building an altar and then clearing the Goblin Laboratory next to one's main base with the help of militia. Against most opponents a expansion will be set up before teching to tier 2. Siege Engines can be employed versus nightelf and undead opponents.

Nightelf

Creeping is done by AoW-creeping the Mercenary Camp/Goblin Merchant or the orange creep camp outside the main base. Trees of Life can be used to clear goldmines and set up (multiple) expansions. Mass Huntress, Tavern-heroes as well as the usual bear and dryad combination or Druid of the Talon work on this map.

Orc

The first creep camp to take is the orange one outside the main base. Alternatively, the orc player might go for harassment by disturbing his opponent's creeping. As the map is quite large, this is not always indicated. The standard strategy applies best for orc on this map: Blademaster, Shadow Hunter, Raider and Spirit Walker.

Undead

The first creep camp to take is the orange one outside the main base. Alternatively, the undead player might go for harassment by disturbing his opponent's creeping. As the map is quite large, this is not always indicated.

Statistics

		vs.				vs.				vs.				vs.				vs.				vs.				Mirrors
Map	#	Σ			%	Σ			%	Σ			%	Σ			%	Σ			%	Σ			%
Twisted Meadows	9551	1246	533	713	42.8 %	1658	863	795	52.1 %	1041	546	495	52.4 %	905	445	460	49.2 %	893	437	456	48.9 %	1618	745	873	46.0 %	329	919	514	428

Version History

Version 1.1

• Redesigned the layout of the areas next to main bases, in order to provide more streamlined early game creeping options: the more rewarding camp is now the closest to the base (5-3-1), meanwhile the more exposed one is now weaker to compensate (3-3-1).
• Natural expansions are now slightly easier to creep and critter clusters around them have been more symmetrically spread across creep camps
• Main base creep camps are now beefier.
• Cross positions for 1vs1 games have now been enforced.
• Base layouts are now more symmetric.

W3C Season 6 Update

• Added forced cross spawn

Blizzard-made changes

Balance Patch History
Version	Release	Balance Changes
1.32.6	2020-06-02	Green Gnoll camps near player start locations now has an additional level 1 Gnoll and the Gnoll Brute drops a level 1 power-up item.
1.30.1	2018-09-13	Tree locations reverted to 1.29. Goblin Laboratories have a tree within range for Wisps. Adjusted all starting locations to allow for optimal building placement.
1.30.0	2018-08-08	Red Dragons replaced with Granite Golems to prevent base harass (Thanks Ugrilainen).
1.19	2005-09-19	Changed the level 4 charged item drops at the Goblin Merchant to level 4 permanent drops.
1.17	2004-09-20	Added some trees near the south Mercenary Camp to prevent mercenary purchase without engaging the creeps. Added some trees to prevent item purchase from Goblin Merchant without engaging creep camp.
1.15	2004-05-10	Corner creep camps harder to Gargoyle rush. Replaced Marketplace with Tavern. Lowered creep strength for Goblin Merchant. Goblin Laboratories are harder to purchase from without engaging creeps.
1.13	2003-12-16	Added ground-based anti-air creep to the island. Added some trees behind the 3 o'clock start location to prevent building NE town hall behind the gold mine. Changed a level-4 drop from charged item to permanent item.
1.12	2003-07-31	A Golem has been added to each of the Mercenary Camps.