Guardians of Dolmen is a AoS type map I've been working on and have put in a lot of work. Hopefully people will enjoy it because of the amount of time I put into it . First of all there is sixteen heroes you can pick from, each hero has three spells to battle their enemies with and upgrade them to become even stronger. Their is seven items to purchase in the item shop and also a dueling arena to 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, etc. The concept is simple, eliminate the other teams base and win, it has many concepts from DotA such as FIRST BLOOD and unlimited lives. Right now the map is in BETA mode which means it has ten out of twenty heroes playable and six out of seven items working and ready to be purchased. If you guys like what you read here in this thread and want me to post the BETA on SEN I'd be happy to, currently I've been playing the BETA with pubbies / SEN members and the feedback was exceptional.

(Short descriptions, I will write more in-depth descriptions at a later date.)
1. Gulcheria: A wicked witch of the west who loves destroying her enemies and leaving them scarred for life. She loves dark magic and practices it religiously on her unlucky foes who are battling her.
Spells:
- Fire Ball
- Spitting Toxic
- Darkness Around Us!
2. Montu: Fierce warrior raised on the arts of combat, he is the superior combat hero one can dream of. His spells are all specialized in the in the art of close combat fighting, you never want to be near Montu if he has a bone to pick with you.
Spells:
- Battle Taunt
- Iron Skin
- War Stomp
3. Meditrina: A holy hero who loves god to it's fullest. She was raised by a nun in a orphanage and always had religion driven into her. Her spells are the best option to rely on when in need of health in the battle field. Meditrina is the ultimate support/healer hero to be.
Spells:
- Meditrina's Holy Strikes
- Healing Wave
- Heal The World
4. Night Crawler: One with the night, he haunts his enemies with darkness and invisiblity never knowing when he will strike. Vulnerable during day when he becomes visible but at night he is the one to fear.
Spells:
- Cloud of Smoke
- Blink
- Multi-Strike
5. Necromancer: An evil summoner who loves to raise dead minions to aid him in battle. Skeletons are his best friend and they are a very deadly and dangerous force to be messed with. Never make him angry or you might just be banished to a place you would never dream of entering.
Spells:
- Spawn Skeleton
- Raise The Fallen
- Death Trap
6. Rambo: Who doesn't know who Rambo is? The ultimate warrior of combat, the man who can annihilate a whole army filled with guns and grenades, he is one force of destruction! Fully equipped with the items he needs to simply devastate you with ease.
Spells:
- Plant C-4
- Grenade
- Gut Shot
7. Maniac: He was instituted at a mental asylum since age two and never released. When he turned twenty six he escaped and was never heard from again. Maniac is now on a killing spree for all the years spent in that dreaded asylum and shows no mercy.
Spells:
- Paranoia
- Furious Strikes
- Crazed State
8. Timothy Murphy: For you history buffs, he was known as a famous sniper. Now he fights in the field of Dolmen to snipe his enemies with his beloved rifle. Timothy is truly a marksman of his own kind, he can shoot a fish in a ocean.. yes a ocean.
Spells:
- Scout
- Rapid Fire
- Head Shot
9. Smokey Da Bear: Hey kid's you all gotta remember Smokey! Once he lived to prevent people from smoking now he causes pain to his enemies with fire! Smokey is one lean mean smoking machine.
Spells:
- Flaming Presence
- Gas & Fire From Above
- Need A Light?
10. Mechanic: Handy man doing his duties at one hundred percent. Yet he is a more craftier mechanic then one can imagine. He is also a longley one aswell, being that his best friend is a.. droid!
Spells:
- Split Personality
- Best Friend Dave
- I Have A Tank!
11. Magician: A magical hero who unleashes powerful spells at his enemies. Even when you think you have escaped with your life, The Magician always has a trick up his sleeve.
Spells:
- Magic Shock
- Rabbits? Kinda...
- Now You See Me
12. Anaconda: A vicious eight legged creature who spawns spiderlings to aid him and if you make him really mad he just might give you his poision juice.
Spells:
- Venomous Strikes
- Spiderling
- Anacondas Hold
13. Chumtoad: A hideous creature who is known to stay under ground and only come out when he needs to. If you pay Chumtoad a visit in his underground lair, you will never be able to leave.
Spells:
- Shield of Blood
- Cloud of Gas
- Spine Burst
14. Jester: A clown who loves to play cruel jokes on his foes, he takes life as a joke and makes his enemies fools.
Spells:
- Loyal Puppets
- Juggling Act
- April Fools!
15. Dilophosaurus: A prehistoric dinosaur taken from the movie "Jurassic Park," He was that dinosaur that spit green crap at people. One of my favorite dinosaurs in that movie.
Spells:
- Baby Dilo!
- Rapid Claws
- Spit Poison
16. Smalls: Very similar to pudge from DotA. His name is decieving when he is actually a quite fat and large hideous monster. Don't get to close, he can eat you in one gulp.
Spells:
- Disorientate
- Hook
- Devour


1. Health Potion - A potion to use while in battle.
2. Mana Potion - Restores your mana while in battle.
3. Teleport To Town - Teleports you back to town after five seconds.
4. Staff of Mana - Increases your mana.
5. Mana Stone - Increases your mana regeneration.
6. Dust of Vision - Allows you to use your scanner to see invisible units.
7. Teleport To Mid - Teleports you to the middle of the battle field.
8. Jeweled Staff of Mana - When Mana Stone and Staff of Mana is combined it makes the items even stronger increasing mana regeneration and mana capacity.
Max of four items in inventory.


1. Twenty heroes with three unique spells each.
2. Dueling arena to battle your foes!
3. Gateway casting / Inventory system.
4. Level up system.
5. Items to help you conquer the battle field.
6. Synergizing spells for heroes to combine and own.
7. Various battles always different in each game.
8. Day and Night system, if it is day you are visioned with all the enemy heroes and CPU player, making Night Crawler attackable and burrowed units. When night time you are unable to see your enemies and CPU enemy making Night Crawler not visible to attack unless you have anti-invis items/spells.
9. Kicking system, if you have an intentional feeder or just an annoying idiot, kick him with a team vote.
10. Fight Keres a boss just like in HoN with Kongor, except when you slay Keres you get a great amount of gold.

1. I got ya!

2. No I don't

3. Need A Light?

4. It got hot in here.

5. Just Farming

6. Tag Team

7. Pure Ownage

8. Can't "Tuch" this apparently...


I would like to thank xYoshix for such awesome terrain and to all the testers much kudos to you, remember if you want to test this just send me a whisper on USEast im on as ETEFT(U) and also if you want me to post the beta on here reply back, thanks!

DL Link - http://www.staredit.net/files/2237/

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jun 19 2010, 12:58 am by B-ETEFT.

Found a small bug with "Smalls" and fixed, replaced current version on database.

oh its finished already, I'm gonna try and play this with some friends.

I noticed in your intro, at first you said that there were sixteen heroes, and then you went on to say there were twenty. Just thought I would point that out.

@Thedarkone, Yes that was changed in v.0.2 thanks for noticing.

No problem. So, did you get the spawn balancing taken care of?

Ok, I've played the map; my opinion:

GAME IS TOO SLOW. It starts out great, but toward the end, you feel like you should just leave because it's taking too long.
Need something to tell the players that the CC in base is the shop. Need separate shops for each team, so they can't see what the other team is buying.
Money option for the skill points needs to increment upward, so it doesn't become useless later in game.
The ghost science vessel spell is too short.
Bottom pathing is a bit small for large units; it also has a bunch of stupid lil dead end paths (usuall a 4x4 or 6x6 area) that do nothing, and do not help the heroes in any way (they are low).
Heath potion is a waste of money. For $25 less, you can just heal at base for wayyy more than the medic heals you. Medic also heal slowly compared to insta heal base.
The Khrydrian Crystal under the HQ prevents broods from attacking the HQ.
Bottom team's left spawn does not attack top team's final left cannon cluster (1 cannon is left alive, and therefor the barrack/acad are left alive).
Having final cannons invinc is stupid, as our team had about 200 spawn units camping the enemy heal, because they couldn't kill a cannon stack since we left that path alive. Just dragged the game out.
The anti heal camp is stupid. Just make it heal slower if enemy units are near the heal. And even slower if the enemy has more units by the heal.
Those gold runes or w/e don't give enough money to make them worthwhile.
Stack all those unnecessary buildings in some corner (the barracks, the sci fact) And keep all upgrade buildings in 1 place.
Remove those silly spell power powerup units on the left. Use death counters.
The map just looks really messy, clean it up. Use fog of war to cover the rest of the map; don't let players have vision of it.
Those skill point things can be in 1 island; you don't need 6, it's a waste of locations and triggers.
I would say the heroes are boring, but it fits the game style very well. Adding 1-2 combo spells might make it better. Still, it's already good.
The item usage area needs to be smaller. I forgot if you use a dship or shuttle, but use an overlord.(they have faster acceleration). When buying items, if the shuttle is over the "use item" beacon, many times, it will use the item you just bought. For the most part, there is no need for a "sell item" beacon.
HQ doesn't need 10k hp. Spawn does 12 and 5 damage, and heroes do like 100. No one wants to sit around to do like 90 attacks to a building.

I like the cost of upgrades.
I like the general terrain. It's blocky, but good to play on.
Good map, just needs some fixes. Has a lot of potential.

Thanks for your comments pigs, and I agree with 85% of what you said. I fixed the "dragged" feel to the game by lowering the cannons, barracks and HQ hp by a significant amount. I will get on to fixing most of those things you mentioned, as far the terrain I will make some tight spots more wider to be more accessible, thanks for the comments.

Just a small add-on to what pigs had tediously typed, Night Crawler's blink spell is a complete let down. The time to be able to use it is way too short, even when upgraded. An time extension would be nice. Time extensions on some spells would be nice, though i can't remember what spells need it yet.

Making the spawn stronger speeds up the game significantly.

The spawn does get stronger when both barracks in a right, middle or left lane have been destroyed.

The main thing that really kills the fun in the game for me is the terrain. It's just way to tight, and makes it very hard for large or slow units to micro through it when trying to go heal. Before you say the whole "well just use teleports to go heal" thing, I just want to say that you should NOT have to rely on teleports to get back to base when you want to.

If the map maker want's the player to rely on teleports, then it's his call. It's a variation to AoS, and what "should" or "should not" be done is ultimately the author's decision. And teleports are a great idea in his map, since the map is freaking huge, and I don't like wasting 20 minutes of a game walking back to base. As for whether or not you want to use em, it's the player's call. If you choose not to use it, it simply gives everyone else the advantage.
Also, you don't really have the best micro, dark..

Are you kidding me? My micro is terrible on most units... but idk, I just don't feel that you should HAVE to depend on teleports to survive is all.

ITS BACK! and better then ever with a buttload of new features and two new heroes and now LOG is officially starting the 20th of this month:

http://www.staredit.net/files/2298/

Go D/L it now assemble your team and get ready for a whole lot of competitiveness because noone can pass on the oppertunity for free cash.. can they?

www.guardsofd.weebly.com the forums are down now but will be up again shortly.. to register for LoG contact me B.Net or PM here. GL to all who dare to participate it will not be friendly.. -.-

The name was also changed from GoD to BS for obvious reasons.. (GoD had to much of a .. bad vibe to it? and now Brethren Souls feels more appropriate.)

GL and HF and also expect v.5.0 to be out before the 20th with even more balance fixes, more features and maybe a few more surprises.

All comments, questions or suggestions are appreciated just please keep the flaming in your pants.