Grandma's House

Map Title: Grandma's House
Grandma listened to the Crue and headbanged, Grandma was awesome! (4-8 players)

Download 'Grandma's House here'.
*Map was built around Fiesta, so that's my recommended gametype.

Description:
No, this isn't a COD4 remake, for you Call Of Duty fans out there. But yes, that IS where I got the first name for this map from (I might change the name later). Grandma's House was inspired, A LOT, by Bart's Manor.

See, I'd pick a random gametype and a random map when split-screen games got boring. I happened to pick Fiesta on Bart's Manor once and...it really stuck! I edited my own copy of Bart's Manor, added more equipment and a soccer field (as apposed to a pool like he had before), and made Fiesta Manor.

When I got Halo Wars: LE, and the Mythic map pack. I started trying to come up with ideas for a map. A new fiesta mansion came to mind.

This map is much like Bart's manor. You have the basic house in the center.
This house is three levels, the top level isn't really complex, and is pretty much shown off in the above picture. (Out of frame: the platform with a turret on it. And a Tin Cup to the right-Grandma would work on her stroke and listen to AC/DC...) Also, the garage is shown off, complete with a Warthog Grandma only drove to clubs on Saturdays...

Next, we have the second floor.
with some couches, Grandma's bed, Grandma's balcony, and Grandma's closet. (Out of frame: To the bottom of the picture is the ramp and jump up to the top floor, to the left of the picture is the ramp leading downstairs.) Grandma had some odd things in her room...a sword by her pillow?

Then, the bottom floor.
Featuring more couches, Grandma's big screen TV, and another downstairs closet. (In that closet somewhere is her autograph from Gene Simmons from Kiss...) (Out of frame: to the right is the ramp leading upstairs and a window.

Finally, we have the outside courtyard.
To the left, a big ledge in the corner protects a lone Ghost. Grandma's balcony is shown in the center of the picture, leading up to the second floor. And to the right is the chute, a simple lift to take you quickly from behind Grandma's house to the roof. (This is how her kids snuck out to see Metallica do clubs back in the day.)

Weapons, Vehicles And Equipment:
Weapons: (a little light-since this map is mainly meant for Fiesta. (Also, Granny sold her weapon collection off so she could buy a plane ticket to the UK while Iron Maiden was on tour...)
3 Assault Rifles, 4 Battle Rifles, 1 Shotgun, 1 Sniper Rifle (Granny used to be a hell of a shot!) 1 Brute Shot (Because nothing is more metal than a grenade launcher with a effing blade on it.) 1 Rocket Launcher, 1 Spartan Laser, 1 Energy Sword (For home invasions and satanic rituals. Dual purpose-for the win!) and 1 Machine Gun Turret. (And 2 7-woods, as Granny was a golfer.)

Vehicles:
1 Mongoose, 1 Ghost, and 1 Gauss Warthog (She did drugs with Ozzy in that Warthog once!)

Equipment:
8 Frag Grenades, 8 Plasma Grenades, 6 Firebomb Grenades, *2 Bubble Shields, *2 Power Drains, *1 Tripmine, *1 Gravlift, *2 Regenerators, *1 Radar Jammer, 1 Flare, *1 Deployable Cover, 1 Overshield, 1 Active Camo, and 1 Custom Powerup

(Items with an asterisk (*), have their Run Time Minimum and Maximum set the same for added mayhem)

And finally,
Flame Sama, the map creator. (Granny called him Flame Sammy...)

Hope you liked hearing me make up a story about an awesome metal Grandma, and even more importantly, I really hope you like the map. This is by far the most interlocking I've ever done on a map, and I don't think I totally did bad, but you can probably tell I'm not a master like Sik is. Action shots are coming soon, I need to pull my cousin and some friends into a custom game for some actions shots first.

Oh, and I'll also mention that while this sorta supports every gametype. I mainly worked on Slayer. Territories and KOTH should play fine. Assault and CTF I don't know...

 

Thanks, but what does 'just a Foundry map' mean?

And in order to make the vehicles at least semi-useful, the cover can't be spread out a lot. There is some cover, just enough to let vehicles move around and just enough to cover players.

 

MLG, I said this ISN'T a remake. I just used the MLG-style callout on a COD4 map as the name.

Thanks for saying it's a good map though. And Titmar...okay...

 

Huh, I assume you mean the arch was a bar? I never thought of calling the arch a bar. I thought it looked like a couch. Guest house would be a trick to make and would be really tiny. And I do have a golf hole, visible in the last pic with me in it.

And this is competitive or casual, surely not asthetic.

 

Again, I don't really have enough experience to make it a bigger house and to change it a whole lot, considering it took hours as it is.