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The '''Mike's Carpet Bomb''', or simply '''Carpet Bomb''', is an airstrike weapon that drops five bouncing rolls of carpets on the terrain from back of Mike's van. The carpets explode with each bounce, and finally disappear on about the fifth contact with terrain.
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'''Mike's Carpet Bomb''', or simply the '''Carpet Bomb''', is an airstrike weapon that drops five bouncing rolls of carpet on the terrain from the back of Mike's van. The carpets explode with each bounce, and finally disappear on about the fifth contact with terrain.
  
 
== Tricks and glitches ==
 
== Tricks and glitches ==
* A Mike's Carpet Bomb may be [[Firing targeted weapons without aiming|fired without aiming]].
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* Mike's Carpet Bomb may be [[Firing targeted weapons without aiming|fired without aiming]].
* It's possible to [[Preselecting target in mid-air|preselect the Mike's Carpet Bomb target in mid-jump]].
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* It's possible to [[Preselecting target in mid-air|preselect the Carpet Bomb's target mid-jump]].
  
 
== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
*The weapon is a pun from real carpet bombing. While being almost equally devastating, real carpet bombing is dropping large amounts of small bombs into a large area, covering the landspace like a carpet.  
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*The weapon is a skit on military carpet bombing, which is the dropping of a large quantity of small bombs over a wide area to create a "carpet" of destruction.
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*It is named after ''Mike's Carpets'', a longstanding carpet-retail business in Yorkshire.
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==

Revision as of 11:30, 28 January 2015

(Up to Weapons)
Carpetbombicon.png Mike's Carpet Bomb
Type: Air Strike
Keyboard selection: [W2] F10 (x4)
[WA][WWP] F10 (x5)
Standard effects: Explosives from above
Present in: Worms 2, W:A, WWP
Power settings
  • Power is uneditable.
  • Number of bomblets: 5
  • Crater diameter: 61 px
  • Maximum injury: 30 hp

Mike's Carpet Bomb, or simply the Carpet Bomb, is an airstrike weapon that drops five bouncing rolls of carpet on the terrain from the back of Mike's van. The carpets explode with each bounce, and finally disappear on about the fifth contact with terrain.

Tricks and glitches

Trivia

  • The weapon is a skit on military carpet bombing, which is the dropping of a large quantity of small bombs over a wide area to create a "carpet" of destruction.
  • It is named after Mike's Carpets, a longstanding carpet-retail business in Yorkshire.

External links


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