Escape

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Game setup
Scheme
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Map
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Worms
4 worms per team (the first 3 at your team start, the last 1 at enemy prison).

Escape is a scheme played on a destructible special map with rules, somehow similar to Capture The Flag, Kill The King and other related ideas. Players start at their own base and must rescue a prisoner worm by opening its cage and touching it. Once freed, the ex-prisoner can move, attack, use Ninja Rope, and must go back to his team base/start to win the game (without dying). The game can also be dicided if all enemy worms be eliminated.

Rules

1. You may not attack the caged enemy worm in your prison.
   1. Exception for this rule: if your allied prisoner worm dies after being “touched” or “freed” from the enemy prison, you may attack any worms in your range, including the enemy prisoner in your own base.
2. You may not use the worm in prison till free, just skip.
3. To free a worm you must break in and then touch the prison worm with your active worm. The prison worm is now free.
4. Once free, your prison worm can now use any weapons.
5. You may NOT use ROPE (1) or SELECT WORM (1) until YOUR worm in prison has been freed. Once free, only the prisoner can use the rope, while anyone on your team may use select worm. You have one of each, and rope is full power. Better get back to start fast.
6. If your prison in your base is broken into and your prisoner freed, you may not use girders for one whole rotation of your team, starting with that turn. i.e. You break into a prison and free the worm, the next turn your enemy can’t girder, they must wait till that worm is up for play again a rotation later to girder.
7. You may not not control an invisible worm after your own worm has been freed from the prison.
8. Freed worm must reach and touch their own start to win.
9. If your prisoner dies after being freed, you must kill all enemy worms to win. Your enemy can still free the prisoner for the win or kill all of your worms for the win.

Tips and tactics

• The bottom of the original map (where the starts/bases are) has a tunnel design that it's hard to use girders, but the worms can move through the tight tunnels. This can be useful to the worm escaping from prison avoid getting stuck or delayed to reach the objective and win the game.
• At the beginning, reaching the top of the map as soon as possible is usally an advantage. Becareful with too much exposition for attacks.
• The crates of this scheme can be very useful. It is a good idea to grab a crate.
• The Mole is very useful in this scheme, specially in the beginning, digging to reach the top.
• Baseball Bat can be used at your allied worms to move them faster. It is useful especially after the allied prisoner worm leaves the cage, and also to reach the cage to free the caged worm. Of course, this weapon can plop and launch back enemy worms too.
• Suicide allied worms can be useful due to the team order. Sometimes is better to play the most possible rounds with the escaping worm.
• To facilitate the memorization of the caged worms names, players can write the names of the prisoner worms using /me or /anon commands in chat.

Criticisms, problems and weaknesses

• The rules of the scheme mention about blocking the prisoner worm with a girder, but it doesn't say about blocking with Petrol Bomb. It could be clearer regarding this.
• On the original map, the rules of the scheme are written (what is good), but in a way that crates may spawn or worms may fall there, what is not ideal for gameplay.
• Players need to memorize the name of the worms that were in jail in order to play properly.

Variations

Modifications with relatively small detail changes to the scheme.

sbs versions

The sbs versions of the scheme have slightly different settings, different number of worms and only one rule was altered from the original: invisible worms can be controlled even after the allied prisioned worm was freed.

History

The original scheme and map were created by shamballa, being released both on 25th February 2008. Besides the original map for this scheme, there are two that were made by sbs (each with a different variation scheme, adapted to the map).

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