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Bran Lake City 1.0
Bolo map ?1997 by Orre
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Bases: 5
Pillboxes: 4

BLC 1.0 is a great map for short, speedy games. My personal favourite,
altogether. No game played on this map is too sleepy, too unfair, or too
monotone. Game times vary from zero minutes to about 20, but most
experienced players finish each other off in six or seven.

About the map:
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It has the speed. It has the power. It has the gift of the second
sight... Bran Lake City! It's just the map that has it all. Well, that
might not be true, but anyway, what you don't get you won't miss. AI
players have no problems whatsoever in BLC, making it an excellent
battlezone for Indy's and alike. Many newborn Boloers perhaps miss
driving around in vast forests, or having plenty of space to build their
own forts on. Well, this isn't such a map, I must confess, but on the
other hand, most maps out there are. This one is different! And it LOOKS
good too!

Sometimes I hear even experienced Bolo players groan and grunt about the
few bases and boxes. They feel like the map is "stumped" and the game
therefore cheap and whimsy. Even savage. But no! BLC games are often
brilliant, filled to the brim with adrenaline, blood, sweat and tears. A
true saloon oriented map, aristocratic in a way, perhaps even a little
neo-impressionistic in its arrangement of boats around the pond... let's
face it: BLC ROX!

The map is symmetrically designed for 4 players, just plain excellent
for 1x1x1x1, still going strong for the numerous 1x1 games, but really,
really a rocker played 2x2. Once I even managed to summon a 3x3 game on
this map, and I tell you, whoa, hey, it ain't a lot of maps in the world
that comes even close.

Play the map! And don't give up at one shot if you don't get the hang of
the pace. This is NOT, I repeat, NOT a map to be compared with Chew
Toys, Slugfests, symmetrical Guidos or alike. This is NOT a
16-16-inflation-in-boxes-and-bases-time-flies-please-lets-call-it-a-draw
type of map. This is neither any kind of extremely experimental or fluky
one-glance-says-it-all map. This is a fullblood! A well-washed, polished
and waxed classic... of all the maps I've ever made, this is the one
I'll be remembered by. Orre. He who made the BLC. In 1997, even before
the LGM had learned how to fly...

Historical note:
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The Bran Lake City map origins from the Bran Flake City 1.0 map, made in
1996 also by Orre. The changes are intended to make the center base a
more popular place to stay basically by increasing the amount of water
around the center island. This way the 4 boxes are out of range and
drive-by kills are slightly less common. The name change might be as
subtle as the changes made to the geography of the map, nevertheless the
gaming quality has achieved new astonishing levels of enjoyment ever
since.

How much can one say about a Bolo map?
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I guess I could go on forever. But I won't. This map description is soon
at its end, and then it is up to you. No map plays itself.

Take now this Map that is in your hands, play it each and every day,
guard it with your life and it shall make your days prosperous and full
of joy.

So be it. One more soul is saved.

And last but not least, a few words to help you through the valley of
Death:

Have fun! I had. And I'm still kicking butt!

/Orre, supreme ruler of the BLC, king of the Bolo Night, and collector
of the lost LGM souls.

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oscar@royal.net
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!! P.S: I will stubbornly refuse to reply any mail that hasn't got a
_sound_ of some sort attached to it. Clinks, clanks and explosions go
first in line. System beeps are ignored. !!