Overview
Elysium Recalibrated is a larger lush land map built around eight exposed pond economies. Every later Gold location can create a shallow pond, a small raised mine site, and a surrounding ring of forest. The open ground between those pockets keeps food, expansions, relics, and long-term Gold visible and worth scouting.
The tournament version gives the map a stronger shared direction. Settlements, all later Gold, the close hunt, the deer and crane outer hunts, and the pond forests are coordinated onto the same broad side. Gazelle outer hunt remains independently placed, so familiar Elysium variety still matters.
Treat the pond side as the main long-term contest: it combines Gold and Wood, while the open routes leading to it keep the abundant hunt from becoming safely isolated.
Ponds & Forest Rings
Standard-size 1v1 has eight later large mines, each with an 18–20 m shallow pond. Each pond can receive three or four 40–50-tile forest areas at 15–20 m from its mine. The map has one seed-varying structure rather than named layouts: the eight pockets move, but their relationship between later Gold and Wood remains the defining feature.
The two defensive settlements sit 60–80 m from their players, and the aggressive pair sits 80–120 m away. Both pairs avoid tower safety, corners, and the central quarter, with wider separation than Standard Elysium.
Food
Initial finite Food ranges from 22,650 to 32,100, with 27,375 expected. There are no fish or predators. Pigs are counted at their generated 50 Food each: the 14–28 pigs total 700–1,400 initially, or 4,200–8,400 when fully fattened.
| Package | Map total | Geography |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | 14–16 deer or gazelle; 8–12 berries; 8–12 chickens; 4–8 pigs | Hunt in tower safety; support resources around each start |
| Close hunt | 28–40 deer or gazelle | Two groups per player, 60 m or farther, on the common side |
| Outer hunt | 14–20 gazelle, 14–20 deer, 14–20 crowned cranes | 75 m, 77 m, and 80 m or farther; deer and cranes share the common side |
| Outer berries and pigs | 28–40 berries; 10–20 more pigs | Berries begin at 70 m; pigs range from 50 m outward |
The close groups stay outside tower and settlement safety. Outer food begins at 75 m or farther and individual positions retain wider inward, outward, and around-the-reference variation than the Standard map. That gives the shared map direction a less rigid local shape.
Wood
Wood is area-based rather than a fixed total. The eight pond economies produce 24–32 small forest areas, while each player receives two 95–100-tile starting forests and one 47.5-tile starting forest. Starting forests avoid ponds and their forest rings; stragglers plus palms, olives, and oaks supplement them.
A reviewed Gameathlon generation contained 179,810 Wood. That is a useful example of the tournament map, not a guaranteed total.
Gold Mines
The full layout contains exactly 54,000 Gold. Each player has one 3,000-Gold opening mine, one 6,000-Gold defensive mine at 65–70 m, one 6,000-Gold aggressive mine from 67 m onward, one 6,000-Gold mine at 75–120 m, and one 6,000-Gold mine from 75 m onward.
All eight later Gold locations can create the pond-and-forest pockets. They avoid tower safety, settlement farming space, map edges, and the center, while the three later packages follow the shared side. The reviewed generation contained the complete 54,000 Gold.
Settlements & Map Control
Each player has two expansion settlements. The first is 60–80 m away and defensive; the second is 80–120 m away and aggressive. Both pairs follow the common side, stay out of tower safety, and avoid the central quarter, making the expansion route part of the same broad contest as later Gold and much of the Wood.
Relics
Four relics appear, two per player. They begin at least 80 m from their associated and every other start, stay out of tower and settlement safety, avoid water and map edges, and use 80 m separation.
How this differs from the Standard Maps version
Elysium Recalibrated is 266 × 266 m instead of 254 × 254 m, increasing area from 64,516 to 70,756 m². The tournament map also aligns its expansion settlements, all later Gold, selected hunt packages, and pond forests onto one broad side, while Standard Elysium places those major systems more independently.
The tournament pond rings use three or four small forests per later Gold location rather than four fixed forest areas, and the starting wood becomes two larger forests plus one small forest per player rather than three 50–75-tile forests. The Food envelope, 54,000 Gold, four relics, pigs, and absence of fishing or predators remain materially unchanged. Wider local placement variation keeps individual resource positions and routes less rigid even though the major tournament systems share one broad side. The lighting changes are cosmetic.
This overview compares the current Gameathlon Athens 1.3 Elysium rules directly with the current Standard Elysium rules, then checks the tournament economy against one confirmed Standard-size 1v1 Scenario Editor generation and its overhead. The comparison supports the stated dimensions, counts, distances, common-side behavior, and terrain relationships. It cannot prove that every attempted area or object completes, and one overhead cannot establish universal positions. The reviewed generation recorded 26,100 Food, 179,810 Wood, and 54,000 Gold; Food falls inside the calculated 22,650–32,100 range, Gold matches the fixed request, and Wood remains one observation. Describing the pond side as the main long-term contest is Prostagma's interpretation of documented resource geography, not a statement of designer intent.
- Official game stringQuoted game copy
- Game script inspectionPlacement rules and requested ranges
- Scenario Editor observationScenario Editor totals and layout
- Derived calculationTransparent calculations from sourced values
- Strategic analysisPlayer-facing interpretation