All maps with screenshots

[Khal Drogo]

I'll just leave this here if anyone is interested in taking a quick look at a map he's never played on.
Note: If the map size is anything other than standard it is locked. However there are 3-4 maps locked to standard size as well.

Amazon - Standard
A region similar to the Amazon Jungle of South America, but with random elements.

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Amazon Plus - Standard
A region similar to the Amazon Jungle of South America, but with random elements.

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Americas - Small
A large map spanning from Peru in the South to America in the north.

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Ancient Lakes - Small
An all-land region featuring a large crater lake in the middle.

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Arborea - Standard
A world almost completely covered in forest.

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Archipelago - Standard
The world will consist of many islands.

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Asia - Large
A large map dominated by the Himalayans and jungles of south east Asia.

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Bering Strait - Standard
The Bering Strait and land surrounding, including the Russian Far East, Kamchatka, and Alaska.

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Boreal - Standard
A large region that is all tundra and well forested.

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British Isles - Standard
Great Britain, Ireland, and countless smaller islands.

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Caribbean - Standard
Explore the Caribbean, in all it's tropical splendor.

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Continents - Standard
The world will consist of a few large landmasses and some smaller islands.

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Continents Plus - Standard
Similar to Continents, but with extended scripting for chains of island and city state placement.

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Donut - Standard
A circular pangaea. You can choose what type of terrain is in the middle.

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Earth - Standard
A map that spans the entire planet.

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Europe - Standard
A randomly generated map that resembles Europe.

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[Khal Drogo]

Eastern United States - Standard
A map that spans the southern tip of Texas and all the way up to the eastern tip of Nova Scotia.

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Four Corners - Standard
This map is sectioned into 4 equal sections, separated by water, with land in the very middle.

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Fractal - Standard
A highly random map that will often form thin, snaky continents.

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Frontier - Standard
A single continent scattered with mountains to simulate the rough environment of the Frontier.

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Great Plains - Standard
A region similar to the great plains of North America, but with random elements.

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Great Plains Plus - Standard
A region similar to the great plains of North America, but with random elements.

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Hemispheres - Standard
A world with two large, fairly balanced continents. Suitable for duels or two-teams multiplayer.

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Highlands - Standard
A large region dominated by hills and mountain ranges.

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Ice Age - Standard
A severely glaciated world where only regions near the equator are habitable.

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Inland Sea - Standard
An all-land region that has a large salt water sea in the center.

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Japanese Mainland - Tiny
This map focuses exclusively on Japan, with no surrounding countries in play.

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Lakes - Standard
A world without oceans, only lesser bodies of water.

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Large Islands - Standard
A world with numerous large islands, roughly equal in size but varying in terrain. Civs are placed on the best available islands.

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Mediterranean - Large
A large map covering the entire Mediterranean basin.

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[Khal Drogo]

Mesopotamia - Standard
A large map spanning the Nile River valley to the west and extending east down the Tigris and Euphrates.

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North vs. South - Standard
A map split horizontally by desert.

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Oval - Standard
An oval-shaped pangaea with random bays carving in to the sides.

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Pangaea - Standard
All players start on one large landmass. There may be small islands off of the main continent.

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Pangaea Plus - Standard
Similar to pangea, but with extended scripting for chains of island and city state placement.

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Rainforest - Standard
A world almost completely covered in jungle.

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Ring - Standard
Each civilizations gets it's own subcontinent. All are connected in clockwise fashion to adjacent neighbors.

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Sandstorm - Standard
A harsh world composed primarily of desert with smaller patches of plains and grassland.

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Shuffle - Standard
A truly random map, including all core settings like world age, rainfall, etc.

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Skirmish - Standard
A balanced map designed for 2 players.

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[Khal Drogo]

Small Continents - Standard
The world will consist of a few medium landmasses and some smaller islands.

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Terra - Standard
A very large world, similar to Earth, where all civilizations start on the continent akin to Asia-Europe-Africa.

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Tilted Axis - Standard
A very large world, tilted on it's side with it's south pole always locked in to facing the sun.

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Tiny Islands - Standard
This world will consist of many tiny islands.

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West vs. East - Standard
A region split vertically down the middle by a wide channel of water.

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[ense7en]

thanx for sharing these!

 

[Krajzen]

Thanks

By the way, I am the only one who thinks some Firaxis maps are unplayable because of their resources placement? Seriously, look for example at Amazon and the number of luxury resources...

 

[ense7en]

Thanks

By the way, I am the only one who thinks some Firaxis maps are unplayable because of their resources placement? Seriously, look for example at Amazon and the number of luxury resources...

Nope.
Those screenshots confirm what maps i will never play.

I think i've at least loaded up almost of them, but there are a lot i really have no interest in suffering through as the only way i'd enjoy them is at a lower difficulty than normal.

 

[Buccaneer]

Thank you very much for doing this. I had started doing that myself because I wanted to see what kind of world each would create but it got tedious.

I was excited initially to see Eastern US but when I checked it out, I found how huge it was (even though it said standard) - pretty much unplayable with so much space between everything, including resources.

Also, thanks for showing my favorite map - Small Continents. I play with Low Seas so that becomes a fascinating landmass.

 

[Khal Drogo]

No problem, glad you appreciate it. If you guys have any improvement suggestions just tell me.

 

[Arbooz]

There is 23 production overall on the 1st screen Great job tho!

 

[Buccaneer]

There is 23 production overall on the 1st screen Great job tho!

I noticed that. Assuming they are all jungles and not forests, I wonder where the production will come from to build anything useful?

 

[Khal Drogo]

I didn't think about that, so there's probably some production in the south as you can see on Amazon Plus. I'll add another screenshot soon.

 

[kb27787]

amazon XD.... (someone do a deity challenge with it...) talk about low production starts...
Bananas and sugars and not much else...

 

[BlackWizard]

I dont see point of sending picture of suffle map as an example because it's random. Otherwise very nice

 

[Buccaneer]

I dont see point of sending picture of suffle map as an example because it's random. Otherwise very nice

Which ones were shuffle maps (if that was what you meant)? I don't recall what were the maps in the new DLC but I don't think any of them are here. All of these maps, as far as I can tell, are random - which is the point of the map generator.

 

[Blitz Spearman]

Which ones were shuffle maps (if that was what you meant)? I don't recall what were the maps in the new DLC but I don't think any of them are here. All of these maps, as far as I can tell, are random - which is the point of the map generator.

There is a map type called "Shuffle". It is an option to play with a random map between the main types (as in, the game will randomize between Pangaea, Continents and Archipelago (and also Fractal?), but will not choose any of the other special maps). It will also randomize sea level and world age. The screenshot that the OP provided is showing an Archipelago as the Shuffle exemple.

Regarding the topic, nice work OP! Is there a way for someone to take screenshots like those but showing AI placement? The City-State placement makes a lot of difference in some maps. Also I laughed with the dual continent Frontier, when the very damn description says that it will be a single continent

 

[ense7en]

Also I laughed with the dual continent Frontier, when the very damn description says that it will be a single continent

There are two options for Frontier. The destription says Pangaea, but the default landmass choice is actually random between continents or pangaea. You can also select either the continents option or pangaea option in the advanced options.

 

[Khal Drogo]

I didn't know shuffle was THAT random, so I guess I'll take that out.

Yeah it's possible to show AI placement. I revealed the map with the Ingame Editor. There's an option to explore the map without triggering the civs and one to reveal the AI.

 

[Resipsa]

amazon XD.... (someone do a deity challenge with it...) talk about low production starts...
Bananas and sugars and not much else...

Underneath the jungle is a plains tile which if you build a farm on several adjacent to rivers and leave tre rest for TPs you be in good shape

 

[Krajzen]

Underneath the jungle is a plains tile which if you build a farm on several adjacent to rivers and leave tre rest for TPs you be in good shape

Still, 95% of terrain as flat jungle (good luck with removing it from every single tile!) and one banana/sugar per damn billions of hexes is something ridiculous

To be honest, almost every Firaxis "special" map seems to be either completely unplayable or at least strange because of the crazy resource placement