What maps do you guys play in StarCraft II, besides the obvious? (We all know THE Card Game is the best.) Please include a short description.


Income Wars
Use your Chooser to spawn units on the battlefield, which also increases your income. After a short time you can already send entire armies at once to try to destroy the enemy Fortress.
Battles of epic proportions are guaranteed, so don't play if your PC can't handle it.
Players: max 3 vs. 3 (2 teams)

Nexus Wars
Build structures that automatically spawn units and generate income. Destroy the enemy Nexus and protect your own to win.
Huge armies are no rarity.
Players: max 4 vs. 4 (2 teams)

Wintermaul: The Remake
A remake of a WarCraft III map that had many different versions (Pokemaul Sapphire and Kindergarten TD being my favorite maps of all times).
Unfortunately, the remake isn't that great. There's just a very limited number of Maze TDs in StarCraft II compared to WarCraft III.
Build a maze of towers to stop evil forces from reaching the end of their path. You can choose from several different races.
Players: max 9 (I think) vs. PC (team TD)

Bardocks TD
Choose the Survival Mode to fight waves of enemies.
Choose the Versus Mode to play against other players, sending them waves of units to reduce their lives and boost your own income.
Mazing is not possible; the path itself is a maze.
Players:
- Survival Mode: max 4 vs. PC (survival TD)
- Versus Mode: max 1 vs. 1 vs. 1 vs. 1 (total 4)

GreenTD
A remake of a WarCraft III classic. The original was more fun to play, but the remake contains a very large variety of units (from the mighty Terra-Tron to units from World of WarCraft).
Build and upgrade different towers to destroy waves of enemies before they reach their goal.
Players: max 9 vs. PC (team TD)

Element Tower Defense
A very fun map with a great variety of towers and creeps. There are countless strategies to reach the goal, an interesting income system and different game modes.
Players: max 8 vs. PC (survival TD)

Desert Strike
Income Wars meets Nexus Wars. Build structures to spawn units (like NW) on a separated area of the map (like IW), where they fight each other. I haven't played it a lot yet, but it seems to be fun.
Players: max 3 vs. 3 (2 teams)

Squadron Tower Defense
It's not really a TD. The "Towers" you build become units during every wave. These units attack creeps but are also attacked by them (don't worry, they respawn every round). There are several races to choose from, which you unlock with experience. Besides building defense, you can also send units to the enemy team or invest in upgrades. These things cost vespene, which you gather with SCVs. There are also different game modes.
Players: max 4 vs. 4 (2 teams)

well its not a starcraft map but in my opinion this is one of the greatest TD's ever made
give it a try if u still have warcraft 3 installed, youtd is just so epic :o
http://www.eeve.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=309

Updated the list.
Hoping for some more...

Nexus Wars and TCG ;-)

I also like Star Battle.

It's similar to DotA maps, but quite different. I normally HATE DotA type games, where you control a single unit that can get mauled in under 2 seconds and where you constantly respawn just to get mauled again. But Star Battle is actually more slow, more balanced and the pace is much more enjoyable.

You control a single, powerful battleship of your choice that you can gradually upgrade with the income you acquire slowly over time and by shooting down small AI controlled fighter aircraft (or your opponents' ships, but that will be rare). Variety of ships and their abilities is good, and for once defense and staying alive actually plays a much more significant role. It really allows and requires good teamwork to try and survive.

I also like Star Battle.

It's similar to DotA maps, but quite different. I normally HATE DotA type games, where you control a single unit that can get mauled in under 2 seconds and where you constantly respawn just to get mauled again. But Star Battle is actually more slow, more balanced and the pace is much more enjoyable.

You control a single, powerful battleship of your choice that you can gradually upgrade with the income you acquire slowly over time and by shooting down small AI controlled fighter aircraft (or your opponents' ships, but that will be rare). Variety of ships and their abilities is good, and for once defense and staying alive actually plays a much more significant role. It really allows and requires good teamwork to try and survive.



This game I've played too often, but suddenly it was gone and I have not found again :-)

I also like Star Battle.
I only played that once or twice. Didn't like it. And I don't like DotA/SotIS either.

I feel star battle is too dumbed down, feels very slow paced compaired to normal dota games

I loved the orginal WintermaulTD in WC3 mastered lightning race on left mid ^^

I SC2 started playing Star Battle like few hundred games, stopped a bit befor they introduced the new game modes.
Then came The Card Game and now mostly Desert Strike.

I feel star battle is too dumbed down, feels very slow paced compaired to normal dota games

That's probably why I like it.

DotA is way too frantic and it annoys me :p

I liked the The Great Strategy map in WC3.. not sure why it never caught on as much as DotA did. It required a lot more thought to play, at least.

oh yes the great strategy was a great map, sadly the newest versions were never able to surpass the awesomeness that was TGS2

oh yes the great strategy was a great map, sadly the newest versions were never able to surpass the awesomeness that was tgs2
Tgs2? :)

http://www.epicwar.com/maps/6988/ = epiccccc

http://www.epicwar.com/maps/6988/ = epiccccc
Oh yes, I recognize maps by their minimap. :)

West team has most overpowered AOE ability what is easily game winner if used by even one player in that team. It was kinda unbalancing like that to have one side only abilities.

It was hella fun to make army support builds, stunlock builds and whatever other hero you wanted with all the abilities you could choose, though.

Also really liked that you could spend resources to add significant upgrades to your side's army.

dreadlord with cleave, lifesteal, critical strike and some really good items (pooling ftw :3), ahhhhhhh man why has nobody recreated that map in sc2 yet

Added Squadron TD to the list. It's pretty fun.

Nice. :)