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Strategic is an intrinsic scheme that, as the name suggests, it is supposed to be a tactical scheme about planning your moves wisely.

The scheme settings are similar to Intermediate, including the fact that all weapons have 3 stars of power (standard damage and craters), however there is a major difference: "stockpile anti" is enabled (still with players needing to win 2 rounds).

Some other notable settings to mention are: x9 ammo for Ninja Rope, Girder, and Blow Torch, x5 Select Worms, Pneumatic Drills, and Mortars, x3 Cluster Bombs, Longbows, Bungees, Teleports and Battle Axes, x2 Baseball Bats, Mines, Parachutes and Skunks, one single Dynamite and Kamikaze, 60 generous seconds of turn time, water rising is slow (5 pixels), there are no dud mines, manual placement is on (players have to choose where their worms will start with Teleport), no initial ammo for Jet Pack, Sheep, Homing Missile, Petrol Bomb, Air Strike and Napalm Strike, x1 Freeze, x1 Scales of Justice, although Super Weapons are disabled from crates. The crates are relevant in this scheme and they have 20% of spawning chance for weapons, 30% for utilities and 10% for health, giving 50 HP. Strong weapons like Banana Bomb and Minigun may spawn from crates. Donor Card and Special Weapon features are on.

Tactics

• The Ninja Rope ammo is vast. So, Rope Knocking can be explored (specially with a generous turn time), but it still need to be used carefully due to anti stockpiling (the ammo might be important in future rounds). However, if players do abuse them too much, they can possibly ran out of ammo. Relying on crates, the single Low Gravity, the two Parachutes, the 3 Bungees, the 3 Teleports and the 9 Girders.
• There are a lot of girders in this scheme, so, they can be used to block worms many times, or they can be used to climb the terrain if the intention is to save Ninja Rope ammo.
• There are a lot of Select Worms in this scheme, and don't forget this scheme has manual placement, so they can be explored not necessarily in the first turns like it is in Intermediate, for example: they may be used to remove allied worms from a pile (see Pile in Worms Terminology) or may be used to avoid playing with blocked worms if necessary.
• Because "stockpile anti" is enabled, it might be better to store stronger weapons for next matches, particularly if you have collected lots of weapon crates.

Criticisms, problems and weaknesses

• Despite the mentioned differences in the scheme settings, if players don't play all the anti stockpiling needed rounds, it will not differ much from Intermediate.
• If played with many worms, the manual placement can make the game take much longer to start the battle itself.
• Some players might dislike playing with so many girders blocking the way.
• If players don't play all the anti stockpiling needed rounds, some players might think it is not so challenging playing with so many ropes.
• If played with many players (example: 6), the 60 seconds of turn time can be an eternity for a player waiting its time to play.

History

The scheme has been around as long as the game itself (Worms Armageddon was released in 1999), having been provided as part of the default schemes in the base game.

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