Highly Strung Maze — RoE

Highly Strung Maze is an extra large underground map of 144 by 144 for eight players, all of whom can be human, with no teams and random factions. Rated hard, it asks players to find a specific artifact, which the author calls the Grail, without losing all their towns and heroes. Grass covers about 52 percent of the land, water 30 percent and sand 11 percent. Eight towns and five placed heroes share the map with 290 random monster stacks, and Water Elementals and Skeletons roam most often. Mines, creature banks, random artifacts, and monoliths with portals are scattered throughout. The author stresses that luck and timing matter as much as army strength.