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'''Jet Pack War''' (or '''JPW''') is a scheme based on [[Hysteria]]. The premise is that the worms have 4 seconds per turn to attack with ''drop-and-run'' weapons from the [[Jet Pack]]. The objective is to eliminate all opponents' worms and survive.
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'''Jet Pack War''' (JPW) is a scheme inspired by the [[Hysteria]] scheme. Players are given a generous 4 seconds of turn time in which to move and attack, and unlimited jetpacks with which to do so. The main differences with Hysteria are the increased fall damage (508%), the plentiful supply of health crates, and the somewhat more restricted weapons arsenal - only a few drop-and-run explosives are available. This latter difference, along with artillery mode (aka anchor mode), require the jetpack to be used for the vast majority of attacks. Many strategies and techniques that are used in Hysteria, however, are useful in this scheme also.
  
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== Detailed information and tips ==
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As with Hysteria, 5 seconds of retreat allow players to glide around the map on the jetpack after dropping an explosive. In this scheme, this additional time can be used to collect health crates, but players should be careful not to run out of retreat time at the wrong moment: the extreme fall damage can easily wipe out any collected health.
  
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=== General ===
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[[Image:Jet Pack War.png|thumb|Ideal map: Jet Pack can go access anywhere]]
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Since artillery mode (anchor mode) is enabled, worms must move and attack from the [[Jet Pack]]. It needs to be fast because of the 4 seconds of turn time. A health crate containing 35 health will be placed each turn. [[Fall Damage]] is set to 508% and worm health is set to 155, so players must be careful not to fall from high enough to take fall damage. Retreat time is set to 5 seconds to facilitate the collection of crates and hiding after an attack. The map has only mines as objects. When [[Sudden Death]] strikes after 80 seconds of spent turn time, no more health crates will appear and the water will rise. Due to the limited time to attack it is very important to choose your weapons fast, so learning all the required [[In-game controls|F-keys]] helps a lot.
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Ideally, the scheme is played on an open-island map with no enclosed spaces, to ensure that everywhere is accessible to the jetpack and that no worms begin the game stuck. Selecting the map this carefully however tends to be tedious (as it requires checking how the terrain will be decorated with objects), so teleports are provided for the evaculation of any enclosed worms.
  
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Each player is equipped with the following itens:
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== Weapons ==
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* 3 [[#Teleports|Teleports]]
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* Infinite [[#Jet Pack|Jet Pack]]
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* 1 [[#Low Gravity|Low Gravity]]
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* Infinite [[#Dynamite|Dynamite]]
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* 3 [[#Mines|Mines]]
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* 1 [[#Ming Vase|Ming Vase]]
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* Unlimited [[#Mad Cows|Mad Cows]]
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==== Map ====
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Along with unlimited jetpack and three 'emergency' teleports, players are equipped with unlimited dynamite and cows, three mines and a ming vase. A single low gravity is also available, which can help blast worms into the water, or create more widespread destruction with the ming vase.
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[[Image:Jet Pack War.png|thumb|Ideal map: Jet Pack can go through anywhere]]
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In order to simplify the game map and make it easier to be chosen in the lobby, 3 [[Teleport]]s were provided to escape from closed areas in the begining of the game. But an ideal map should be an open island map, be able to do the players access every surface on the map, this way no one would lose a turn to teleport away from the closed area. Choosing an open island map without closed spaces allows this. Bridges and other map objects may close areas of the map, so setting Bridge and Terrain object counts to 1 in the [[Map Editor Guide|Map Editor]] is more guaranteed.
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Though unlimited, the dynamite is 15% weaker, making it more difficult to blast worms into the water. However, its fuse can help guage retreat time on the jetpack, as retreat time will run out at the same time that the dynamite explodes.
  
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=== Utilities and weapons ===
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Mines, on the other hand, are 58% stronger. This makes them considerably more powerful than dynamite, and so only three are provided.
  
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==== [[Teleport]]s ====
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The cows offer an interesting twist to the scheme. Their damage is zero, so they are not useful for attacking, but can be used to collect crates. Retreat time only activates after the last cow is dropped, so more flight time can be gained by dropping the maximum number of cows. However, jetpack fuel still depletes while the cows are being released... so care should be taken when deploying this tactic.
  
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The 3 teleports were provided to escape from closed areas in the begining of the game, go to far places where the Jet Pack wouldn't reach, collect difficult crates, hide and to do suicides.
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== Strategies ==
  
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==== [[Jet Pack]] ====
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Some of the strategies are from [[Hysteria]] and can be applied here as well.
  
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It is infinite, the only way to move, with initial fuel value of 30 and with 5 seconds of retreat time.
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=== Back-facing weapon drops ===
  
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* '''Fuel'''
 
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When a worm is in a lower place, going higher will require a lot of fuel. Bear this in mind, as running out of fuel and taking a fall with the 508% of fall damage ''may'' kill your worm. Another choice is to attack a worm in a lower place and use the retreat time to get up.
 
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* '''Dropping explosives back'''
 
 
Sometimes when you drop an explosive forward, it hits your worm and does not fall as you had aimed. A good way to avoid this is by releasing the explosive with the worm facing back.
 
Sometimes when you drop an explosive forward, it hits your worm and does not fall as you had aimed. A good way to avoid this is by releasing the explosive with the worm facing back.
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* '''Retreat Time'''
 
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It can be used to push mines onto the enemy, collect health crates, receive more time to escape, and cover for the loss of fuel.
 
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[[Image:Jetpack_retreat.gif|thumb|left|Pushing a mine]]
 
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* '''Deactivation'''
 
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# Pressing space resets all horizontal velocity, which is handy for landing on isolated pixels where you are a difficult target.
 
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# Running out of Jet Pack's retreat time keeps the worm's movement. This can be useful if landing with no care about if the worm will hit or slide on the terrain.
 
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==== [[Low Gravity]] ====
 
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The single exemplar is useful for drowning the opponent's worms. It can be combined with:
 
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* '''Dynamites''' - When the dynamite is well positioned, the probability to make a worm drown is average. If badly positioned: low.
 
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* '''Mines''' - When the mine is well positioned, the probability to make a worm drown is high. If badly positioned: average.
 
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* '''Ming Vase''' - The clusters will go onto a larger area and the probability to make a worm drown is high.
 
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* '''Mad Cows''' - Not a good idea, because the cows won't explode and there's only one Low Gravity. However, the cows will fall a little bit further and this might help to collect health crates.
 
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==== [[Dynamite]] ====
 
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Infinite, 15% weaker (significantly hindering its ability to launch worms into water from a long distance) and the most used weapon to deal damage of the game. When you need more time to move, dropping a dynamite will activate the retreat time, giving you extra time to hide and collect crates. Dynamite's maximum damage is 59 (without fall damage). It is useful for dealing damage without wasting ammo. It can also help you to know when the retreat time of the [[Jet Pack]] will end: when the dynamite explode (after the time reaches 0).
 
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With x3 ammo and 58% more powerful, they are stronger than the dynamites and with the same crater diameter of the conventional dynamite power, enabling them to launch worms into the water from long distances. If you drop one and it does not activate, remember where it is, because it can't be distinguished from terrain mines and will deal a lot more damage (maximum is 72, without fall damage).
 
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They can be pushed by the Jet Pack to do an extra attack and if the player aims well or just has luck, they can make a combo in the attack. They are with conventional power.
 
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The single exemplar with a delay of 5 turns is provided to cause devastation where necessary later in the game. It can be very useful when you are about to lose, or when you need to kill a worm with a lot of HP. Use the Ming Vase when a group of your opponents' worms are close to each other (for the clusters kill everybody). It can also be helpful when placed underneath a worm with a lot of HP to make all the clusters explode at once (the same way as the [[Cluster_Bomb#Tactics|Cluster Bomb's trick]]), making the worm fly very high and receiving a lot of damage.
 
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==== [[Mad Cows]] ====
 
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They are unlimited and will not explode (power above 20). Useful to collect health crates and do not blow your own worms or the terrain if the time/fuel is running out. It is possible to drop 1-5 cows. If you drop 2 or more cows, the chance of collecting a health crate will be higher than 1, but the retreat time of the Jet Pack will only be activated after the drop of the last cow, so the more more cows you drop, the more you can fly, but you'll need more fuel for that.
 
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== Strategies ==
 
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Some of the strategies are from [[Hysteria]] and can be applied here as well.
 
  
 
=== Stocking up on HP ===
 
=== Stocking up on HP ===

Revision as of 22:21, 14 January 2011

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Jet Pack War (JPW) is a scheme inspired by the Hysteria scheme. Players are given a generous 4 seconds of turn time in which to move and attack, and unlimited jetpacks with which to do so. The main differences with Hysteria are the increased fall damage (508%), the plentiful supply of health crates, and the somewhat more restricted weapons arsenal - only a few drop-and-run explosives are available. This latter difference, along with artillery mode (aka anchor mode), require the jetpack to be used for the vast majority of attacks. Many strategies and techniques that are used in Hysteria, however, are useful in this scheme also.

As with Hysteria, 5 seconds of retreat allow players to glide around the map on the jetpack after dropping an explosive. In this scheme, this additional time can be used to collect health crates, but players should be careful not to run out of retreat time at the wrong moment: the extreme fall damage can easily wipe out any collected health.

Ideal map: Jet Pack can go access anywhere

Ideally, the scheme is played on an open-island map with no enclosed spaces, to ensure that everywhere is accessible to the jetpack and that no worms begin the game stuck. Selecting the map this carefully however tends to be tedious (as it requires checking how the terrain will be decorated with objects), so teleports are provided for the evaculation of any enclosed worms.

Weapons

Along with unlimited jetpack and three 'emergency' teleports, players are equipped with unlimited dynamite and cows, three mines and a ming vase. A single low gravity is also available, which can help blast worms into the water, or create more widespread destruction with the ming vase.

Though unlimited, the dynamite is 15% weaker, making it more difficult to blast worms into the water. However, its fuse can help guage retreat time on the jetpack, as retreat time will run out at the same time that the dynamite explodes.

Mines, on the other hand, are 58% stronger. This makes them considerably more powerful than dynamite, and so only three are provided.

The cows offer an interesting twist to the scheme. Their damage is zero, so they are not useful for attacking, but can be used to collect crates. Retreat time only activates after the last cow is dropped, so more flight time can be gained by dropping the maximum number of cows. However, jetpack fuel still depletes while the cows are being released... so care should be taken when deploying this tactic.

Strategies

Some of the strategies are from Hysteria and can be applied here as well.

Back-facing weapon drops

Sometimes when you drop an explosive forward, it hits your worm and does not fall as you had aimed. A good way to avoid this is by releasing the explosive with the worm facing back.

Stocking up on HP

Giving 35HP to a worm for each crate, the health crates can make a worm with very low HP become quite healthy again, giving another chance for someone about to lose. So if your opponent has little HP, don't leave crates left. They can also compensate for the increased Fall Damage, giving worms more HP to cope with the falls.

Administering the opponent's worms

Since the health crates give 35HP, worms with very low HP can become quite healthy again. Killing those worms will not let the opponent take this advantage. On the other hand, if the opponent has less worms than you, he/she can explore the worm rotation to easily kill your worms.

Exploding health crates

Sometimes instead of taking the crate to gain health, blow it is the best option, because the crate will burn and cause extra damage on the worm, and may even kill it.

Killing healthy worms at once

Sometimes an opponent worm is too healthy. When this happens, kill it at once will be very helpful. The easier way is by drowning it into the water (the Low Gravity can be very useful for this), but the Fall Damage can be explored too, however it will require notion about the activation "failure" and the damage taken by the fall.

Hiding far away from the opponent

It can be useful when you want to protect yourself against attacks, and search for health crates to receive more HP. This method can also make the opponent stop in the middle of the map (on a tentative to attack), making this way an easy method to attack him/her without recieving damage.

Waiting for Sudden Death

Waiting for the sudden death may be very useful to easily kill worms. It stops the appearence of health crates, as well as letting the water rise.

History

FoxHound created this scheme in 2009 thinking about making a scheme with short turn time like Hysteria, using the Jet Pack more and with no rules. The scheme's original name was Jet for Boom, but it was renamed to gain popularity, after Lex's suggestions. The scheme had been created, tested and divulged before the existence of the Worms Scheme Contest, so when the scheme was sent to the 2010 contest it was not accepted due to the rule: "The scheme has to be completely unseen by the public before and during the contest.".

On July 2010, teleports were added to the scheme after Fighter's suggestion. Before then, the scheme could only be played on the recommended map. A few days after, cows were added to the scheme too.

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