"There must be a name for this..."

"An impasse, sir; an impasse."

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So I was rollin' about Forge World looking for some geometry to inspire me when I came across Alaska. "My," I thought to myself, "What an odd resemblance this here plot bears to the rolling hills of Halo 3's Standoff!" My curiosity piqued, I threw down a pair of Blood Gulch's half-bases to examine how a recreation of Standoff might look in this hilly terrain. Out of those bases grew Impasse, a spiritual successor to Standoff with the obligatory synonymous title.

It may look like I've added hardly anything to the map, but that's only because it's true. The existing terrain did so much of the work for me. There are a few dozen carefully placed rocks, some of my favourite new pieces - dishes, and the vehicles, weapons, spawns and objectives I saw fit to add. But don't get me wrong, this took a lot of tweaking and it plays like any other fully-featured creation should.

Impasse is more vehicle-heavy than anything else I've done, with 2 Banshees, 2 'Hogs and 4 Mongii; and 2 Rocket Launchers and a Spartan Laser to bolster the confidence of footsoldiers. There are also 2 Sniper Rifles because I can't resist adding them, but fear not: Impasse features steeper hills, taller rocks and more existent trees than Standoff did, and the Sniper Rifle doesn't dominate too much.

Also on the map is a pair of Needle Rifles, a pair of Needlers, a pair of Plasma Pistols and four DMRs. Oh, and grenades all about.

It's set up for all major team objective types (I had to change 'Assault' in the item description to 'Bomb' because of a censor bypass), but if you only play one game I would make it Multi Flag, lotsa fun.

Weapons List:
4x DMRs @ 90s, 2 spare clips.
4x Needle Rifles @ 90s, 2 spare clips.
2x Needlers @ 60s, 2 spare clips.
2x Plasma Pistols @ 90s.
2x Mounted Machine Guns @ 100s.
2x Sniper Rifles @ 120s, 1 spare clip.
2x Rocket Launchers @ 160s, 0 spare clips.
1x Spartan Laser @ 160s.

6x Plasma Grenades @ 30s
2x Frag Grenades @ 30s.
2x Active Camo @ 150s.

4x Mongii @ 60s.
2x Banshees @ 150s.
2x Warthogs @ 150s.

And now the screens:

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And that's it for today folks. This obviously isn't a map to download and fly around in, admiring creative genius or intricate forging; it's a map to download and play in, recreating the awesome original experience of Halo's team games.

Thanks, and may the Forge be with you.