My review of
Fealthas list:
Sands of War, Flooded Valley, Cull and Coastal all outright require ships/hover/amphs. Current state of pure-water ZK is not conducive to good games.
Iced Coffee is cheesy and has a lot of chokepoints, but tends to produce reasonably tense games when cheese fails or is not used.
Cooper Hill and Desert Cliffs are small (which begets cheese), and have a prominently important center position.
Geyser Plains and Avalanche are small and flat, which also often begets cheese, but otherwise they are good maps. Perhaps, a slight upscale would fix the cheese issues.
Tartarus is ugly and has narrow chokepoints. Zion is as horrible as it is ugly because it breaks line of sight and has no space to maneuver.
Frozen Planet, Fields of Isis, and Aquatic Crossing have a lot of easily controlled chokepoints that often lead to static warfare, but i find Frozen Planet's high cliffs and smaller economy to produce more interesting games.
Drab is like the above, but also forcing amph/hover and featuring an ultra-safe supermex. Porc war guaranteed.
MoonQ10x is ugly, unbalanced, and forces bot factories at large raiding distances.
I find little objection to Vittra asides from its elongated nature allowing positional warfare to set in somewhat easier than on other maps. But it often does produce good games.
I have little objections to Altair Divide and Isle Of Grief as well. Both allow extremely wide arrays of playstyles and strategies and seem to produce interesting games. Aesthetically, IOG could have slightly taller cliffs and a few more features.
In general, i find that maps with diagonally spaced starts are more conducive to good 1v1 games (or maybe good games at all). Ravaged having diagonal starts probably saves it from becoming an utter chokepoint hell that it could otherwise be. Titan Duel is almost the perfect map for zk - if it just had some shallows!
Elongated shapes with start positions at maximum distance are the worst. This is what harms Vittra, defines Icy Run, and makes Zion even worse than its terrain would suggest.