Darwin's Prize — AB

Darwin's Prize is a medium 72 by 72 map for Armageddon's Blade, played on a single surface level with normal difficulty. Four players can take part, all of them human-controlled if desired, with no teams and no computer-only colors. Each side begins with a random faction, and the goal is to defeat every enemy, while a player loses by losing all towns and heroes. The landscape is mostly grass and dirt with about eight percent water. Scattered across it are five towns, 38 random monster stacks, 10 randomly placed artifacts, 20 mines and 7 creature banks. The author describes a contest of four lords where the strongest must survive, and warns that rival lords will compete for scarce resources, so early movement matters.