Luna

The Terrain

Luna imagines Earth’s Moon as a strange battlefield of crater basins, maria, ridges, and dark gaps. The map is unusually tall at 1308x3500, with 36% land and 64% water-like void. It plays less like a planet and more like a long chain of lunar routes.

The name uses the Latin word for Moon, and the map leans into that mythic quality. Solid ground appears as cratered territory, while the dark regions behave like seas that separate expansion lanes.

The Science

The Moon’s visible face is dominated by maria, ancient basalt plains created by volcanic flows after huge impacts. Highlands, crater rims, and basins create the texture people can see from Earth. Luna turns those visual contrasts into OpenFront terrain.

Human exploration of the Moon began with robotic probes and the Apollo landings, but the modern space race is again focused on lunar bases, polar ice, and long-term logistics. On this map, those ambitions become a territorial contest.

The Battlefield

Terrain Overview

Luna has 25 nations on a very vertical map. The long aspect ratio makes timing and route control more important than raw proximity.

Best Spawns

• Midline crater chains - strong access to both halves of the map.
• Wide basin edges - enough land to grow while controlling crossings.
• Polar approaches - safer openings if you expand before the center closes.

Avoid

• Narrow vertical lanes - easy to be pinned by a stronger neighbor.
• Void-adjacent isolation - water-like gaps can protect you, but they also slow your recovery.

Strategic Insights

Luna is about corridor discipline. Secure the lane you are in, then look for cross-map openings only when your reserves can support them. Overextension is especially punishing on a map this tall.

Fun Facts

• Lunar maria are not seas; early astronomers named them before their geology was understood.
• The Moon is tidally locked, so the same side always faces Earth.
• Luna’s 1308x3500 dimensions make it one of the most vertically stretched maps in the game.