"…your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to invade and conquer the strategically important island of Hellcatia. Hellcatia is an active militarised zone, acting as a stopover point & refuelling base for air & sea transport. As such, it is heavily defended. If you should fail in your mission, as usual we will deny all knowledge of your team…"
Hellcatia, like its name suggests, is a Bolo map originally inspired by far too many late night games of the very wonderful Hellcats Over The Pacific; although in its final form that relationship may not be too obvious. This is the first map I've designed, two days after my first game of Bolo, and one day after receiving BoloStar, the excellent Map Editing program from K&D Software (we here at Wooden Horse haven't had much sleep recently).
Hellcatia was designed primarily as a "realistic" map, rather than a purely tactical one. However I've tried to make it very playable as well as believable - like any good simulation should be IMHO. I hope you enjoy playing it. We certainly have.
I'm making this map available as a small thank you to Stuart Chesire for creating a great game, and making it so cheaply available. Not just a programmer, by god, a visionary too!
