Drought is a medium-sized desert map with lots of rough terrain and two potential build locations for each player.
The map is vertically symmetric. Each player starts on a medium-sized area of flat ground on one of the bottom corners of the map. There is a medium gem patch nearby. Some distance to the north is a wide ramp to a large, flat, raised area containing a Tech Expansion Post, a Tech Machine Shop, and a large ore patch with an ore drill. Under the cliff is another large ore patch with drill. To the E/W of the Expansion Post is a second ramp leading off the raised area to the south and an Oil Derrick. Slightly further to the E/W, under the cliff edge, is another Oil Derrick and a small gem patch. To the south from here is a round flat area containing an inaccessible cliff area, three garrisonable buildings on its outer W/E side, and a medium ore patch with drill to its south side. Next to this ore patch are several hedgehog tank traps and a Cannon Bunker.
Besides the above-mentioned areas, the rest of the map is rough ground that is difficult if not impossible to build on.
Because of the gem patch near the starting position, players are encouraged to put their first Refinery on their MCV. It's obvious that the Expansion Post is necessary for long-term success, being as most of the map's wealth is concentrated around it, but nobody's going to pass up on free gems. Possibly the most sensible build strategy is to take the Expansion Post as soon as possible, put the first Refinery on the MCV, then all other buildings on the Expansion Post, since the starting location is dead weight once the gems are gone. The MCV can then be moved to the north if the build time can be spared. However, one must be cautious of an early rush on the MCV.
Due to this map's large and open no-man's-land area, the split between two bases, and the long distances involved, it heavily favours mobile armies that can react and retreat quickly.
Advanced Warfare • Alert Status Red • All the Fury • Amazonas Gamma • Angel Island • 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 • Bifold Retreat • Billy's Full House • Blizzard Peaks • The Bloodiest Feud • Bluff Reflection • Boiling Point • Bridging the Gap Redux • Cold Hard Crash • Connection Cut • Crazy Diamond • Crystal Moon Cake • Dante's Inferno • Dead Six • Death Stranded • DEFCON Six • Desert Descent • Einstein's Gate • Eviction Notice • Faith Bound • Fatal Flaw • Field and Stream • FreezeOut • Frostburn • Gang War • Gold and Glory • Gold Experience • Grinder Chasm • Gryphon Paradise • Harbouring Doubts • Hard-Headed • High Explosive Round • Horus Versus • Ice Age • Ice Cap Zone • Infinity Dune • In Spitting Distance • In the Seam • Jungle Boogie • Kalifornia Crisis • Krakenhaven • Krukov-Reznov Airbase • Living Death Girl • Lost and Found • Lost Inside Redux • Magmageddon • Malibu Cliffs • Malver's Sandbox • Mechanical Island • Metallic Madness • Misery Malice • Mount Mirage • Norio's Dojo • Offensive Tactics • Paradise Warfare • Power Shift • Pinnacle Freeze • Quicksand • Ravenous • Replica • Resource Strain • Rogue Nation • Rorschach • Sedona Pass • Sewer or Later • Shrouded Canyon • Shrouded City • Sidewinder • Six-Assist • Snowflake Clash • Stars and Stripes • Straight Shot • Team-D-Arena • Tidal Tempest • Totally Nitro • Tour of Egypt • Triple Crossed • Triviallakes • Unrepentant • Uragan's Unreal Arena • Vertigo • Vodka on the Rocks • Vulkan • Whiplash • Wildfire Steppes • Wild Nile Ride • Winter Desolation • Yunru's Snowglass
8-player
Angst Driven • 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 • Cowfields • Crosshair • Dedication • Drastic Measures • A Dusty Mesa • 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 • Knockdown Mega • Life in the Oasis • Made of Sand • Maelstrom • Mayhem Islands • Miners in the Sun • Mirage Oasis • More of Egypt • North Sea • Octagony Mega • Omega City Mega • On the Up-and-up • Ore Pit • OutGrowth • Pacific Rim Mega • A Path Beyond II • Permafrost Mega • 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
(2) Arden River • (2) Asvetia Cliffs • (2) Let There Be Fight • (2) Pig Race Isle • (2) Sunset Vista • (2) Urban Rush • (4) Austin, Texas • (4) Carville's Convoy • (4) City Fights Back • (4) Four Pack • (4) Mount of Imprulz • (4) Otters' Revenge • (4) Snow Valley • (6) Snowdog • (8) Aquatic Divide
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