Oasis Trouble is a two-player standard multiplayer map.
Features
Oasis Trouble is a large (pseudo-?)island map that encourages base expansion and the involves the odd situation of naval units with no land/water access.
The map is diagonally symmetric. Each player's starting location is on a small raised area with a small gem patch and a medium ore patch each with an ore drill. A N/S ramp and an E/W ramp connect the starting area to the rest of the map. Clockwise along the N/S ramp is an Oil Derrick surrounded by a destroyable fence and protected by some small garrisonable structures. Further along is another raised area with two medium gem patches and two ramps. To the E/W of this area, below the cliff, is an Artillery Bunker. The Artillery Bunker is itself over another cliff surrounding an ore pit with two drills, accessible from a nearby ramp and another on the far side.
The centre of the map contains a lake flanked on each side by a large garrisonable hut and a small gem patch with a drill. Each of these patches are backed by a thin surrounding cliff that is accessible by ramps at the top and bottom.
Since the entire island is surrounded by cliffs, there is no way to get land or amphibious units into the water around the edge of the map, and no way for many non-siege naval units to fire on the land.
The starting position on this map is very easily defended. Denying an enemy scout or harass is simple; just put a few infantry at the top of each ramp. However, there are two problems with the starting position: there isn't enough ore to last very long, and there isn't enough space to build. At some point at least one player is going to want to pack up and move, or make another MCV.
The obvious spot to expand to is the cliff with the gems up past the Derrick. The gems there also won't last long, but capturing the Artillery Bunker will provide some safety and help secure the ore pit below. Of course, doing any of this too early is a massive gambit that risks wasting much build time and/or money if the opponent reacts well. Not moving mining operations up will lead to one's miners roaming all over and inevitably being harassed in such a twisty map. The Ghost Miner's cloak really shines in this sort of situation, lending Epsilon players a potentially big advantage in a stalemate.
Naval units can't really interact with non-naval units due to the cliffs, so their only real use is as a surprise siege unit. This can be a dangerous gimmick if unexpected. To counter, one can either try to go naval themselves - which probably isn't worth the investment - or can invest in air units. Fliers take advantage of the map in exactly the same way navy does, which is to say they abuse the difficulty in scouting the map edges. But fliers can also attack inland targets, react quickly to threats, and transport units. What's more, many of them don't require wasting your build time on a specialist building to make them.
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
