When two worlds collide! A battle that has been going on for more than a decade now is soon reaching its climax. Countless gallons of blood have been shed, with both teams loosing some of their best men. It is now time to see who wins this fight, both sides are sending out their best men, no more holding back. Are up for the challenge? Are you ready to end this war once and for all? Are you ready, to FINISH THE FIGHT?!

Okay, so I'll start out by saying this is my first EVER map I have made. Though, it wouldn't be as good as it is with out the help of my brother (GT: Ds LEFT HAND) to make it clean and more visually appealing. Minerva started out by me just messing around in forge making some cool base designs then going from there. It eventually made itself into a symmetrical map with two mirrored bases across from one another with a large center base. Rather than having all access points to the bases on the ground I connected them using a large bridge. This opened up the possibility for heavy air combat using the jetpack! As for game play, Minerva plays similarly to Cliffhanger or Atom. I think I had both in the back of my mind while making this map cause it def looks like them ^.^

So as far as weapons goes I initially divided the two bases into more of a SvE type playing field. It was a favorite of mine during the beta. So on one side there are covenant weapons and the other spartan weapons.

Here is a breakdown:

Weapons:

Power Weapons:

1 Shotgun | 120 sec | 0 spare clips
1 Sniper | 120 sec | 1 spare clip
1 Focus Riffle | 120 sec
1 Rockets | 180 sec | 0 spare clips
1 Sword | 120 sec

Other:

7 Plasmas | 45 sec
7 Frags | 45 sec
5 Health Packs* | 15 sec

*The health packs are located as follows:

1 Blue Base
1 Red Base
2 Center Structure
1 Shotgun Spawn

It is now time to view this dreaded land of battle!

An overview of Minerva (as much as an overview will be while up against the top barrier)

A shot from red side looking at the playing field (shotgun spawn is on the overhang)

This is a closer look at what shotgun spawn looks like

An overview of the map from the far corner of blue side (sword spawn is on the back bridge)

A closer look at the back bridge and sword spawn

The top part of the central base/structure with rocket spawn (openings to drop down from both sides to sword and shotgun)

Blue base - housing the sniper and spartan weapons

Red base - housing the focus riffle and covenant weapons

1st floor of both bases

2nd floor of both bases (red base will have needle riffles rather than dmr)

Finally a top view of bases (3rd floor - to the right is the "sniper" tower - blue has sniper red has focus riffle) left side ramp goes to bomb capture plate