District Five

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Summary:
This map was designed specifically for Territories after I saw The Projects by Blazen Nite. The idea was to create a map containing several buildings so that it looks like a small town.

Map Layout:
There are five territories and four buildings in this map.

Territory 1: Road Construction

The closest goal area to the offense is also the most open. The attackers will need the nearby bubble shield to protect them from the sniper on the warehouse and the defenders in the warthog. Careless workers have left propane tanks laying near a flare.

the view from the offense starting area

view of the construction, the house in the background

Territory 2: The House

The second territory is inside an abandoned house. There are several ways into the two story house. Players can walk up the steps through the front door, jump up to the second story window, go around back and jump in through a hole in the second story wall, or crouch under the floor and pop up from a hole in the floorboards.

Once inside, there are only 2 rooms, the first floor and the second floor. The only way up is the narrow staircase. Watch out for grenades getting bounced up and down. The territory covers the whole first and second floors of the house. There is also a crumbling roof to the house, that is somehow still able to support the weight of several Spartans.

view one of the house

view two of the house

view out the front door toward the barn

view of the hole under the floor

view from the upstairs, overlooking the road construction

Territory 3: The Warehouse

Territory three is inside the large central building known as the warehouse. Not only is this the largest building in District Five, but whichever team controls the warehouse roof will have easy access to all of the other territories.

exterior view of the warehouse

interior view of the warehouse

interior view from the mezzanine

Territory 4: The Barn

The fourth goal area is inside a barn. Well, a barn thing anyway. This building was the last addition and so I had to make do with whatever objects I had left. I chose to make a building that would lend itself to interesting encounters, but I had to sacrifice the realism of the barn. ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s more like a collection of walls than a barn, but thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s what weÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re gonna call it.

the barn, angle one

angle two, yeah this barn has a machine gun turret and a Ã¢â‚¬Å“ladderÃ¢â‚¬?

barn interior

Territory 5: Repair Shop

The final territory is inside a small repair shop. YouÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll see an overturned mongoose outside and a warthog up on the repair lift. Both can be used in an emergency. Watch out, the mechanics keep a shotgun and a Molotov cocktail in the back. This territory covers the repair shop and the fence wall roof.

the repair shop

Map Layout

Weapons, Equipment, and Vehicles

7 Battle Rifles
1 Sniper Rifle
1 Shotgun, reduced ammo - one spare clip
1 Spartan Laser
1 Brute Shot
2 Maulers
2 SMGs
1 Needler
1 Sentinel Beam
1 Plasma Pistol
1 Turret

4 frag grenades
7 plasma grenades
1 spike grenade
2 firebomb grenades

1 bubble shield
1 overshield
1 trip mine
1 grav-lift
1 radar jammer
1 flare

1 warthog (defense)
2 mongooses (one offense, one defense)

Action Screenshots
All of these shots were taken from one game on this map. Overall, the test game was a huge success. The teams were severely stacked with respect to skill, so the final score was 10-4. However, the losing team said that they enjoyed the map, but not that specific game. I mean, when was the last time you had fun on a custom map when you got owned?

Start of the round

The standard start of the round at territory one. Defense has two guys in the warthog and one guy going for sniper. The offense has a bubble shield and a flare deployed.

Furious D 18 owning

I defend territory one furiously! The offense foolishly placed a trip mine inside the bubble shield. I stepped in, tossed a grenade, and escaped in time to watch their worlds end.

The House

Tossing grenades down into the warehouse

The Barn

Silly red team, the barn is no place for a warthog!

Repair Shop

Updates

I moved the radar jammer to be more effective for anyone wanting to sneak in under the floorboards.
I added some respawn points to cover more of the map.
I added Slayer starting points for up to four teams.
I set it up for KotH, with one hill at each territory.
I changed some very minor aesthetics.

Tips From the Author
This map is built to offer a variety of gameplay and tactics. The following are tactics that I either had in mind while building the map or are things I came up with after watching the video of the first game.

If you are having trouble capturing the Road Construction territory, go for a different one. There is an opening to the Warehouse near the offense starting point. Also, the back hallway on Foundry has been left open so you can head for the Repair Shop. Or, grab the mongoose and drive past the defenders to the Barn. Once you capture another territory, you'll start respawning there too, and it makes it much harder on the defense to spawn camp.
The Warehouse seemed to be the easiest territory to capture. Also, once you get it you will start respawning in there, and it's central location makes it a great place to spawn at.
Don't let the offense capture your warthog.
On defense, if you want to get from the Repair Shop to the roof of the Warehouse quickly, crouch jump onto the warthog if it is there, and then crouch jump to the fence wall roof. It saves a good 3-4 seconds.

I'm sure there are a bunch of other useful tactics. These are only the ones I noticed after one game. I can't wait to play this again!

Other Information

There are $0 left in the budget.
This map was going to be called Territory Town, but I remember that Lance doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t like weird funny names, so itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s called District Five. Ã¢â‚¬Å“DistrictÃ¢â‚¬? refers to Territories, Ã¢â‚¬Å“FiveÃ¢â‚¬? is how many there are.
Crawling under the floorboards of the house to get inside is a feature that I stole from The Estate, a Forge Hub featured map. I never actually downloaded the map, so I donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t know how similar the outcomes are, but I totally stole the idea from there. DonÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t post in this thread that I stole it or that itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s old. I know.
Special thanks goes to the people who make up the Forging 101 articles. If I had never read about interlocking objects, this map would have been done a lot sooner but would have been a lot uglier.
I think IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve earned a reputation at Forge Hub for attention to detail and thorough map reviews. IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d appreciate it if someone returned the favor.

Thanks for reading. Also, thanks in advance for downloading it and giving glowing reviews.