What makes a good CM QB Map?

[Mr Yormsha]

Personally I quite like the idea of thinking up some sort of idea behind the game you're going to play before designing the map.

maybe the game is a partisan sweep, so you could draw up lots of different set up areas in a big 'wooded' map and then let the germans hunt down partisans. maybe the germans are trying to escape a late war russian encirclement, so the russians could set up on either flank. (Then forces and purchase restrictions may be discussed beforehand too.)

When it comes to building a map i generate the map first in the random map generator. then wait till i get the map contours I'm happy with. (the computer gives a much more natural random feel to hills and contours IMHO.) then i wipe the map clean. then add terrain and then the rest of the stuff.

My two penneth...