HOW TO BASE

1.Use the ships needed for certain abilities. I will display how to use each ship later on.

2.The object is to get the flag and keep it for as long as you can. This is called "Holding base".

3.Attach to the "Base Terrier", also known as "BT". To attach, select the Page Up and Page Down buttons until the ticker (it should be a red triangle) is on the name of the Base Terrier. The Base Terrier must be on your team, or else it won't allow you to attach.

4.Kill all enemies in the base, be careful if you are a Javelin (ship 2) or Shark (ship 8) so that you don't Kill any of your Team members. Team members have yellow names, while Enemies have blue names. Team Killing is illegal and you can get a WARNING from a Moderator or worse; BANNED.

5.If you are attacking to take over the base, or trying to regain the base because the enemy took it over, make sure you defend the terrier. Do so by killing anyone coming near it. Destroy all enemies in the middle part of the base (under the flagroom) before you enter the flagroom (that is, if theres enemies in the flagroom as well), they will take it over in ease; you will be trapped with nowhere to run and have to start all over.

HOW TO USE EACH SHIP

Ship 1 - Warbird (wb) - Press esc and then the number 1 to be in the cockpit of this puppy. The Warbird is used for one shot kills.To fire a bullet, press the ctrl button. Many people use it to hunt the Terrier.As it does kill someone in a single shot, when the Warbird shoots it drains its own energy, leaving itself defenseless. If you're a good dodger and aimer you can do great things in the Warbird!

Ship 2 - Javelin (jav) - Press esc and then the number 2 to be in the cockpit of this killing machine. The Javelin is a ship set with Bombs! To fire these bombs, press Tab button. The bomb can kill more than one person if they are close enough together. This ship is often used for breaking crams. The bomb has a bounce to it, so it can bounce of a wall and go to a destination you wouldn't reach with a direct line. This ship is also very usefull. The javelin is also equipped with X-Radar. When X-Radar is activated on the Javelin, it will drain your energy slowly. More info on how to use X-Radar is given in the Terrier part of this section. AND to add even more fun to the ship, it is equipped with a Rocket! Press F3 to use it. Rocket propells you forward at a very fast speed, but does not go on forever.

Ship 3 - Spider (spid) - Press esc and then the number 3 to be in the cockpit of this killing machine of death. The ship is fit with red bullets, and tons of them. This ship is used to kill everything. It is also used in two forms of defending the base (Cramming and Lining). To "Cram", all the spiders go to the entrance of the flagroom and let nobody pass. To "Line", the Spiders go to the sides of the flagroom and aim at the entrance, letting only some enemies in, but chances are they will be overtaken and killed. This form of defense is used so the enemy javelin has a difficult time making an entryway for the Terrier. Cramming can be easily destroyed by an enemy javelin. Lining is very difficult to be overtaken by newer players, but with good sharks, it can make a way for the enemies to enter and take over.

Ship 4 - Leviathan (levi) - Press esc and then the number 4 to be in the cockpit of this Destruction Master. The leviathan is used for mayhem and destruction, usually not for basing. The leviathan is very slow but makes up for it in damage. The Leviathan bomb will destroy anybody near a wall it hits. It is also equipped with a mine. If you manage to get up to 20 bounty, then you can attach to a Terrier, and you are now called a LeviTerr (LT). The terriers speed will be a great advantage to destruction. Many basers get upset with LT's and start hunting them. The Leviathan is equipped with a gun as well. Slow firing but deadly. One shot kill, like the warbird, but its range is wide - very usefull. The Leviathan is also equipped with Stealth. Press the Home key to activate it. More info on what it does is listed in the Key definitions section below. This ship is also equipped with a rocket and portal. Rocket does not last as long as the Javelin rocket but is still affective. It's used for narrow escapes and fastbombs/bullets.

Ship 5 - Terrier (terr) - Press esc and then the number 5 to be in the cockpit of this fast little bugger. The terrier is the main ship for basing. Without it, it will be very difficult for you to win. Your teammates attach to you if your the BT (Base Terrier), saving time for your teammates because they wont have to travel through space and into where the team is. The Terrier is equipped with Bullets, Burst, Portal and X-Radar. Burst can be activated by pressing shift+delete. It is there to defend itself if there are no teammates around to defend it. 3 tiny pebbles are launched from the ship, from the top of it, lower left, and lower right. For the burst to take effect, it must bounce off a wall. Usually about 1 of the 3 pebbles do little damage to an enemy, but that leaves them so that the terrier can shoot them and kill them [better than dieing, hehe]. The portal is used so if the terrier is about to die, it can warp to a specific spot where he/she layed the portal. The portal can be deployed by pressing Shift+Insert. You will hear a sound and a new item be dropped. Don't worry! thats called the target. That's where you deployed the Portal. You also might notice a timer start ticking away in the upper right hand side of your screen. That my friend is a bomb. lol! joking, its just the timer set so that you can't have a portal in one spot for hours on end. When the timer is gone, you cannot warp to that spot. To warp to that spot (if the target is still there) just press Insert (warp). To activate X-Radar, press the End button. This allows you to see cloakers. More info on cloakers below.The terrier is a difficult ship to master. But with practice it is possible. :-)

Ship 6 - Weasel (X or Cloaker) - Press esc and then the number 6 to be in the cockpit of this shadow crawler. The weasel is equiped with Bullets, Stealth and Cloak, and a rocket. The weasel is a tiny ship able to slip into the base from small openings in the base! You can slip past the enemy and steal the flag and then kill the Base Terrier right under their noses!! Being cloaked means no enemy can see you on screen. Stealth means no enemy can see you on Radar. Although, the Javelin, Terrier and Shark have X-Radar. X-Radar is the only way you can see the cloakers. Weasels CANNOT see other enemy Weasels. Although, your teammates, no matter what ship they are, can still see you. So can spectators, if they activate X-Radar. To activate Cloak, press Shift+Home. To activate Stealth, press Home. Having both Stealth and Cloak activated, it will stop your energy from recharging. So beware! The Weasel's rocket is not as long-lasting as the Javelin, but still propells it at a very fast speed. This can be used to catch people running away or if you are under attack.

Ship 7 - Lancaster (lanc) - Press esc and then the number 7 to be in the cockpit of this very affective shooter. The lancaster is equipped with bullets, similar to the Leviathan. But, the speed for the bullet is alot faster, making it easier to kill enemies. Altho the lancaster does not have anything else but the bullets, its very affective. It's fast rotation is very useful. But if you are trying to kill one person out of a group it will be very difficult, because if the bullets hit one person, the bullets dissapear, but killing the person it hit. So its not good for hunting the enemy terrier. Use the Warbird (ship 1) to do that.

And last but not least, Ship 8 - the Shark - Press esc and then the number 8 to be in this base protecting ship of heroic-actions. The shark is basically a suicide ship, used as a decoy to distract the enemies from entering the base. The shark is equipped with 3 Repels, bombs, and 4 mines. To deploy Mines, press shift+tab. If an enemy flies over the mine, the enemy will die. Any surrouding players will die along with it, but if the player is far enough away it will only be EMP'd. While EMP'd, your ship cannot recharge for a certain amount of time. So take cover! To use Repels, press shift+ctrl. Repels are used for repelling enemy mines, bullets, bombs, bursts and thors. Although Thor's are not privided in Trench Wars, they are usefull elsewhere. I will not go into explaination on how to use them just yet. When you repel a mine, it will transform into a bomb, but it will never bounce. You cannot repel team mines/bombs/thors/bursts/bullets. If a team shark repels a mine into you while your also a shark, you can repel it someplace else, so watch out. If you repel things into your teammate on purpose, your teammates will get mad at you. Please refrain from doing this. Repelling enemy bullets and bombs and mines are very usefull for entering the base. The shark is not meant for killing.

Key definitions

STEALTH: Home

Stealth is used so enemies cannot see you on Radar.

CLOAK: Shift+Home

Cloak is used so enemies cannot see you on screen.

ANTI-WARP: Shift+End

Anti-Warp makes it so anybody on your screen and/or radar cannot warp, change frequencies, or change arena.

BURST: Shift+Delete

Burst can be activated by pressing shift+delete.It is there to defend itself if there are no teammates around to defend it. 3 tiny pebblesare launched from the ship, from the top of it, lower left, and lower right. For the burst to take effect, it must bounce off a wall. Usually about 1 of the 3 pebbles do little damageto an enemy, but that leaves them so that the terrier can shoot them and kill them.

PORTAL: Shift+Insert

You will hear a sound and a new item be dropped. Don't worry! thats called the target. That's where you deployed the Portal. You also might notice a timer start ticking away in the upper right hand side of your screen. That my friend is a bomb. lol! joking, its just the timer set so that you can't have a portal in one spot for hours on end. When the timer is gone, you cannot warp to that spot. To warp to that spot (if the target is still there) just press Insert (warp).

MULTI-FIRE: Delete

Multi-fire is used so it increases the bullets used when shot.

ROCKET: F3

Used to be propelled to flee from an attacker, or to attack with great speeds.

X RADAR: End

X Radar is used so the player that has X Radar activated can see Cloakers and/or people with Stealth activated.

DECOY: F5

A replica of yourself, only you can only make it rotate. You cannot make it thrust or slowdown at all. This is good to use if you want to trick people into chasing the decoy while you sneak into some other place.

REPEL: shift+ctrl

Repel is used to repel enemy mines/bombs/bursts/thors/bullets. Great item to create an entryway for your teammates into a base.

BRICK: F4

Used to block enemies from proceeding further. Also blocks enemy bombs/repelled mines/decoys.

THOR: F6

A Thor is used to shoot THROUGH walls and Bricks! The Thor would be too affective for Trench Wars for obvious reasons, so we don't provide it in Basing.