Cabana Republic is a medium-sized island map that supports many styles of play.
The map is vertically symmetric. Each player starts on a flat, open area on the island's outside south coast. To the south of the starting location is a medium-sized ore patch with an ore drill and a Cannon Bunker on a small outcropping. To the north is a raised area with several garrisonable tents, an Expansion Post, an Oil Derrick enclosed in fencing, and a medium-sized mixed patch of ore and gems with a drill. To the E/W, a Concrete Bunker sits in a open area surrounded by hedgehog tank traps. Further to the E/W, in the middle of the map and accessible only from the north, is a ridge covered in gems. Opposite to the north is another small hill with a Tech Machine Shop and a civilian Construction Unit that can be used as a repair vehicle if stolen by an Engineer, Hijacker or Huntress. Directly to the south, on the other side of the ridge is a resort made up of six large buildings arranged in a ring, with a Tech Hospital at the bottom and a gem patch and drill in the centre. Back out W/E from here, back towards the starting location, is another medium ore patch protected by a garrisonable large hut. The north and south halves of the island are separated by mountains that split the approach into two paths.
There are three small islands south of the main island. Two are south of the starting positions, near the map corners, each containing a single Oil Derrick. At the very middle bottom of the map is a larger island with a Tech Airfield.
A number of different things can happen on this map depending on player preference and style. It's nearly always correct to take the expansion to the north; not only does it give access to some gems and keeps the Derrick close, it's also a more easily defended position being on top of a big ramp. Furthermore this is a practical position to build up on if one is interested in the gem ridge or the Machine Shop. On the other hand, building predominantly on the lowland gives better access to ships and transports for naval control, and allows base creep towards the second lower ore patch and thus towards the resort with the Hospital and gems. Base creep in general is quite strong on this map - as long as you can get the trees out of the way - due to the abundance of flat land and the fact that you can get your base further inland where it's less vulnerable to naval siege.
In any case, due to the topography of the map the land action tends to revolve around controlling a few key points and there's not that much scope to sidestep a well-dug-in opponent. Thus air and naval units also have a significant part to play. Air units don't have to deal with the cliffs and mountains being in the way and can safely clear garrisons choking up the map. Naval control guarantees at least one extra Oil Derrick and the Tech Airfield, potentially denies the opponent's lower ore patches, and stops any chance of an amphibious backstab which could get the opponent back in the game.
Action Reaction • Amazonas Delta • Amazonas Zeta • Arden River • Argent Crusade • Artificial Ice • Asvetia Cliffs • Baltic Arena • Battlebase Beta • Bay War • Big Little Lake • Blistering Red Sands • Blood Feud • Blood Feud II • Boracay • Burning Streets • Cabana Republic • Canals of Carnage • Canyon Fodder II • Cape Fear • Chitzkoi's Iron Cages • Closed Wide Open • Cloud Nine • Cold Winter • Couplet • Deadman's Ridge • Delta City • Delta Duel • Dimension W • Drought • Dry Canyon • Dual Duel Redux • Dueling Islands • Dune Patrol • Dune Patrol II • Dune Shredder • Dustbowl • Elysion • Escalation • Exhausted Isle • Eye of Terror • Fire Island • Forest Joust • Fractured • Freezing Field • Frontier Duelists • Glacier Gorge • Grinder Ravine • Hail Mary • Hamlet Mirror • Hanamura • The Halo • Heatstroke • Hidden Valley • A Hill Between • Hostility • Impact Crater • Industrial Strength • Inferno Galore • Infinity Isle • Isle of War • Isolation Isle • Jungle Basin • Knockout • Landslide • Let There Be Fight • Little Big Bay • Little Piece of Dune • Loaded Barrel • Loud Kingdom • May Day • Meat Grinder • Mirror's Edge • Moonlit Waters • Nevada Valley • New Heights • No Man's Land • Oasis Trouble • Obsidian Knoll • OverExtended • Paradise Lost • Perseco Terra • Phantom Blood • Pig Race Isle • Pinch Point • Pipeline Problem • Pirate Bay • Poisonous Milk • Polar Nights • Predator Instinct • Reconcile • Renaissance • River Rampage • Roselake Redux • Route Sixty Six • Sahara Mirage • Saint and Sinner • Sand Snakes • Serpentine • Small Town USA • Snow Plow • Sovereign Land • Spratly Island • Stand Off • Steadfast • Sunset Vista • Suspect • Switchback Ravine • Switchback Ridge • Terraformation • Tikal • Tokyo Drift • Tournament Arena • Tournament Canal • Tournament City • Tournament Decision • Tournament Dune • Tournament Isle • Tournament Temple • Tournament Tower • Tournament Vale • Turtle Village • Twin Apex • Twin Peaks • Twisted Malice • Urban Pipeline • Usurpation • Village Circuit • Water Splash • Winterspring • Winteryear
3-player
Arch La Indigo • Batchawana Bay • Caldera of Chaos • Canyon Fodder III • The Dam • Direttissima • Easter Island • Frigid Triangle • Hostile Iceberg • Killer Instinct • Laced River • Medusa • Minos Desert • Mystery Town • Norio's Dojo • Ore Troika • Paradox Spiral • Pyroclasm • Rapid Trio • Silver River • Tiki Torture • Triple Threat • Yelcraz Island • Yuri's Plot
4-player
Advancement • Alaskan Outback • Arena Attack • Austin, Texas • Barren Valley • Battlebase Octopon • Battlebase Quartus • Battleblock Theatre • Big Town USA • BizarroGrid • Black's Big Battle • Blood Feud Redux • Blue Hawaii • Brink of Disaster • Bull Run • Canals of Drainage • Canyon Fodder IV • Carville's Convoy • Caverns of Siberia • Central Channel • Circuit Board • City Under Siege • Coldest Peak • Collision Course • Combat Zone • Cool Party • Country Swing • CrissCross • Crystal Forest • Death Valley Girl • Deep Freeze • Desertification • Desert Pacific • Desert Twilight • Divide and Conquer • Division Delta • Double Malice • Double Patrol • Double Shredder • Double Trouble • Downtown, Cityville • Dragon Harbour • Dry Heat • Dusty Canyon • Ebony and Ivory • Eternal Alliance • Eureka's Proving Grounds • Eve of Destruction • Face Down • Face of the Ocean Frog • Fair and Square • FinAlize'd • Fiordland • Fort Kickass • Fort Urban Square • Four Corners • Four Pack • Frostbite • Frostration • Frozen Badlands • Frozen Throne • Gem Pit • Giant Hog Bay • Golden State Freeway • Goldshire • Ground Zero • Hail Mary's Revenge • Hammer and Sickle • Head for the Hills • Heartland • Hellhound • Industrial Fortitude • Invasion Confirmed • Inversion • Isle of Oades • Ivory Wastes • Jungle Basin Redux • Lady of the Lake • Lake Istelv • Lakeside Divide • Libra's Playground • Little Piece of Island • Lost Alley • Lost Lake • Lowlands • Matrices • Mazelovania • Mentalopolis • Montana Warzone • Moonlit Bay • Morales' Sanctuary • No Wimps • Not Without A Boat • Oceanside • Offense Defense • Once Calm • Oppidan Cay • Otters' Revenge • Overcome • Pacific Heights • Pak Choi • Peaceful Struggle • Pinecone Island • Pipeline Plateau • The Polaroblong • Practice Yellow • Quarterpounder • Quatrain • Rashidi's Ambition • Red Sun Canyon • Rockets' Red Glare • Rogue State • Roulette Begins • Ruination • Scars • Scorpion Trail • Sea of Isolation • Separated • Sessions Pass • Shattered • Shivering Isle • Sinkhole • Snow Feathers • Snow Valley • Soldier Game • South Pacific • Stalington • Stormy Weather • Stratification • Sunstroke • Tanya's Training Grounds • Temple Toveena • Tetris • Timberland • Total Destruction • Tournament Complex • Tournament Dune II • Tournament Island • Tournament Ridge • Tournament Square • Tournament Swamp • Tower of Power • Transistor • Tropical Nights • Turf War Redux • Two-Faced • Upriver • Valley of Gems • Velillian Islands • Vicious Standings • Walk of Egypt • War Paint • Warhead Junction • Water Shed • Winterspring Redux • The Well • Woody Island • Yin Yang • Yuri Is Not Easy
5-player
Apocalypse Now • Rahn's Dungeon • Sacred Lore • Starcrossed
6-player
Advanced Warfare • Alert Status Red • All the Fury • Amazon Attack • Ant Arctic • Arabian Nights • Arena Thirty-Three • Army of the Potomac • Avalanche • Bad Weather • Barren Grounds • Battlebase Hexis • Battle for Dune • Battle Tendency • Bay of Pigs • Bay of Pigs II • Bering Strait Redux • Bermuda Triangle • Blizzard Peaks • Bridging the Gap Redux • Cold Hard Crash • Connection Cut • Crazy Diamond • Dead Six • Death Stranded • DEFCON Six • Faith Bound • Field and Stream • Freeze-Out • Frostburn • Gang War • Gryphon Paradise • High Explosive Round • Ice Age • In the Seam • Jungle Boogie • Kalifornia Crisis • Lost and Found • Magmageddon • Malibu Cliffs • Malver's Sandbox • Mechanical Island • Metallic Madness • Misery Malice • Mount Mirage • Offensive Tactics • Paradise Warfare • Power Shift • Ravenous • Resource Strain • Rorschach • Sedona Pass • Sidewinder • Snowdog • Straight Shot • Team-D-Arena • Tour of Egypt • Triple Crossed • Triviallakes • Unrepentant • Uragan's Unreal Arena • Vertigo • Vodka on the Rocks • Wild Nile Ride • Winter Desolation • Yunru's Snowglass
8-player
Angst Driven • Aquatic Divide • Arctic Circle • Atomheart • Bacchus Plateau • Barren Wasteland • Bay of Pigs III • Blood Paint • Blue Hole • Bon Chat, Bon Rat • Bordertown Beatdown • Bow Tie Canyon • Bridge Builder • Canyon Frost • Catching Fire • Central Quad • Clover Conflict • Cold Hard Truth • Cowfields • Crosshair • Dedication • Drastic Measures • East Wind Valley • Elusive Peace • Frozen Ripple • Grand Stadium Mega • Grey Wind • Heck Freezes Over • Hex Bay • Hi-way, No-way • Icy Trinity • In Need Indeed • Irvine, California • Jungle Warfare • Life in the Oasis • Made of Sand • Maelstrom • Mayhem Islands • Miners in the Sun • Mirage Oasis • More of Egypt • North Sea • Omega City Mega • Ore Pit • OutGrowth • Pacific Rim Mega • A Path Beyond II • Powder Keg • Ridge Carnage Redux • Russian Roulette • Seven Bridges • Siegfried's Techzentrum • Snow Snow Snow • Stardust Crusaders • Steel Ball Run • Stone Ocean • Subdivisions • Tea Moon Cake • Territorial Imperative • Toxicity • Twilight Frost • Trailer Park • Twin Bridge • Volkov's Dominion • Westernfield • Wheel of Torture • World Rejector
