Lazyboy164

Feb 2 2006, 08:54 AM | Post #1

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Castle Wars


Written By : Lazyboy164

Location: Far Southwest of Runescape

Teleport: Ring of Dueling

Closest Bank: Lobby

Requirements: Runescape Membership

CastleWars is a Runescape version of “Capture the Flag”. There are two teams. Since this is a Runescape version, the teams are named after the Runescape Gods. Saradomin [blue], and Zamorak [red]. The green portal, Guthix, will put you on which ever team has the least amount of players, because guthix is the god of balance.

Please Note - There's no difference between Sara or Zammy.



Each team has a base, one in the Northwest corner, and one in the Southeast corner. The object of the game is to run from your base to the other teams, “capture” their flag, run back to your base, and put the opponents flag into your pedestal. Each game lasts for 20 minutes, and at the end of the 20 minutes, each member of the team with the most points gets two CastleWars tickets! If the game is a tie, then everyone gets one CastleWars ticket. If you lose, you get 0 Tickets, so its a really good idea to try your best and not waste your time




You may be thinking that this sounds easy, but as you read on you will see it is a lot more complicated than what has been explained so far. Regardless, Castle Wars is one of the most popular places in Runescape!

What makes Castle Wars so fun, is that it’s basically just like the wilderness, only if you die you just go back to your base and you don’t lose anything. Castle Wars is multi-combat zone, so multiple people can attack a single person. Some people like to train there for the fact that it’s a little more exciting than training on regular monsters. It’s not the best experience, but hey, who doesn’t like killing other players?

Getting Started

To start castle wars all you have to do is go inside a portal and wait for the next game. Sometimes you may have to wait if a game is already in progress. You can NOT bring any items into castle wars except for Weapons, armour, runes and potions. You can NOT bring food, there are bandages inside the arena. Also, please be aware you can NOT wear helmets or capes inside CastleWars.

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Once the game has begun you will be taken to a respawn room. This is where bandages are located for your team. The other team can not come in to this room, and if you die, this is where you will be reborn.

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8858/respawnroomwp9.png

Protecting Your Flag



Here are some strategies on how to use your best skill to the max:

Melee:
Melee is basically just running around killing people. It's the most popular attack style to use. The best places to melee are at the top of your base, or right outside your restart room, attacking people trying to get up the to the top and steal your flag. If you are interested in experience, then go to the other opponents castle right outside their restart room and pick on the lower levels

If you are going to melee, it's obviously best to use the highest level of equipment available to you. However, you may find it useful to bring a dragon-2h along incase you get surrounded and want to use the special attack to damage all nearby enemies.

On a side note, Barrows armour sets do not work due to the fact you can't wear helmets in Castle Wars.

Dragon spear's are quite useful when capturing the flag, especially if the other team has an ancient mage. If one of your team mates steals their flag, use the dragon spear special attack multiple times to stun their magician, giving your team mate a clear get away.

Magic:
Magic is probably the most important attack style in castle wars. 1 mage can make or break a team. The most common spots to mage are, either first floor of your castle (outside the starting room), up near the catapult on the wall, or simply on the ground fighting with the meleers. If you are going to mage, especially with bind/freezing spells, you should be thinking about where your flag is at all times. Try to hold who ever steals your flag, and don’t lose track of where they are, because you are the most important player on your team.

Normal Magic- Normal magic is a bonus, and is usually used by players who just want to train magic, or are using melee/range and switch into magic robes to snare or entangle a flag stealer.

Ancient Magiks- If you have a good, smart ancient mage on your team you almost have a sure victory. Ancient mages usually use ice burst or ice barrage spells, which are multi-way spells. They can freeze multiple people at a time, and do massive damage, where bind/entangle does no damage at all. If you want to really help your team, use these spells. However, they are quite expensive.

If you are going to use magic, its suggested you use ahrim’s robes, or atleast mystic robes. Use spells that can do a lot of damage, and or freeze/hold the other teams players. You must use your own runes, and you don’t get them back.

Ranging:
Range is also a skill important in CastleWars. Rangers commonly are on the wall, where the catapult is. If you want to help more, you should get off the wall, and chase who ever steals your flag. It is common for the flag stealer to turn on protect from melee or magic, as most people melee, and mages can freeze them. But if you're ranging, you can still hit your max damage.

Equipment for ranging should be the best hide armour you can get (leather/hard leather/green-blue-red-black dragon/karils) and the best bow you can use. Do not forget that you have to pick up and use your own arrows if you want to keep them. The best bow to use would be a crystal bow (roving elves quest).



Supplies:

Bandages- These can be found in your starting room. They are the only ‘food’ you can use in castle wars. They heal 8 hitpoints and 30% energy. A MUST if you are going to attempt to steal the other teams flag.

Toolbox- Found on main floor of castle, used to repair catapult or main castle door.

Rocks- Found on main floor of castle, used on catapult (see below).

Rope- Found on main floor of castle, can be used to scale the other teams wall.

Bucket- Found on main floor of castle, can be used on the tap nearby to gain water. Use bucket of water on a burning barracade or catapult to put out the fire.

Tinderbox- Found in starting room beside bandage table; Found on main floor of castle, used to burn barracades or catapult.

Pickaxe- Found on main floor of castle, useful if taking the tunnels to mine boulders, or mine the wall to make boulders fall.

Exploding Potions- Used to blow up barracades or boulders in the tunnels.

Barricades- Found on main floor of castle (see below).

Barricades:
Barricades are very good to help you win in Castle Wars if you use them right. Each TEAM is only allowed 10 barracades, so I will stress the fact PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TEAM'S BARRACADES. If you want to maximize the use of barracades, put them on staircases. This is by far the best place to put them. Another good spot is right outside your starting room, blocking the staircase going upwards. Please note, if the area right outside your starting room is blocked off, and you can not get passed, DO NOT attack your team's barracades, it is EXTREMELY annoying, and you will only lessen your chances of winning. Simply go through the barrier, back into your starting room, and back out the other barrier.


Catapult:
Probably the most useless thing in CastleWars, the catapult is an annoying thing used by noobs that don’t know how to do anything else. It shoots rocks(see above) and can hit players on both teams. I suggest you DON’T USE IT.


Capturing The Flag:



Unless you want to make your team lose DO NOT I reapeat DO NOT attempt this if you're not prepared, and have a low defence/hitpoints level.

Capturing the flag can be very fun if you’re successful at it. When going to capture the flag always make sure you have the following items: bandages, plenty of prayer, good armor, explosive potions (see above), and a defence/super defence potion wouldn’t hurt. There are many routes to take. Either
-strait out the castle, across the middle bridge
-underground
-across river stepping stones

The route I suggest you take is the stepping stones, as if you die on them then the flag will returned to the opponents base (more detail on this later on)

Regardless to what route you take, explosive potions are a must. The last thing you want is to be stuck so close to the place where you score and end up dieing due to a barricade. If you have an explosive potion, you can just blow the barricade up and walk right past. If somehow you forgot to bring explosive potion, you can use your tinderbox on it to set fire to it. There is about a 5 second delay when using a tinderbox, as the barracade must burn down. If you take the underground, bring a pickaxe, or use explosive potions to blow up the rocks.

Tunnels:

The Tunnels can be accessed from 2 ladders on the main island, or from 1 ladder in each castle. There are 4 tunnels, 2 of each going towards the same ladder. In the center of the tunnels, there are the 4 tunnel entrances, each can contain a boulder. Running into/out of a tunnel is extremely DANGEROUS, as someone can use an exploding potion and make the rocks fall on you, killing you in one hit. This is why it is suggested, if you are to steal the other teams flag, take the stepping stone route.

Holding Your Own Flag:



Ok, as said above, you should not capture the other teams flag if you are not prepared/low level. I also mention, if you are going to die, die on stepping stones. The reason for this is this:

When you die, and you are holding the flag, it drops on the ground. A person from the team who's flag it is can pick it up and HOLD IT. Then, in order for your team to win, you have to KILL THE FLAG HOLDER and then get back to your base alive to score. This can be very hard, as after a team has their own flag, they all guard it and it is hard to get it back.

Try recovering it from a team like this-


This happens in all except the following circumstances, in these certain places, if you die and the flag is dropped, the team whos flag it is (ex. Sara person, sara flag) they CAN NOT hold it. This place is:
-Inside their own castle
However, in some places, the flag is automatically returned to the teams pedestal, these locations are:
-Stepping stones
-If it is dropped where the rocks fall in the tunnels, and the rocks fall on the flag
-In certain squares around the catapult (see below)
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/3767/specialspots2rc.png

If you capture the other teams flag, and are going to die, die in one of the places above, or you will put your team in an extremely hard situation to recover from.



Prizes:

Lanthus, in the middle of the lobby has various things you can trade in your tickets for:
Note – Helm looks like a medium helm, Sword like an Excalibur (no special attack though), Shield like a kite shield.

Red Decorative Helm- 4
Red Decorative Body- 8
Red Decorative Legs- 6
Red Decorative Shield- 6
Red Decorative Sword- 5
Blue Decorative Helm- 40
Blue Decorative Body- 80
Blue Decorative Legs- 60
Blue Decorative Shield- 60
Blue Decorative Sword- 50
Gold Decorative Helm- 400
Gold Decorative Body- 800
Gold Decorative Legs- 600
Gold Decorative Shield- 600
Gold Decorative Sword- 500
Blue CastleWars hood- 10
Blue CastleWars cape- 10
Red CastleWars hood- 10
Red CastleWars cape- 10

You can also purchase a castle wars manual with basic information (useless to you if you have read this guide) for 5gp.

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Tips & Tricks:

- Most people melee in CastleWars, but mages and rangers are VERY important

- ‘Noobs’ in CastleWars are very important, although they may not be able to do much damage, they can still set up barracades in good locations, carry bandages, and heal other players on their team. Please do not ‘put-down’ ‘noobs’ or lower levels, as they can still help a lot. Perhaps teach them or tell them what to do, so they can actually help your team.

- High levels are not gods, though high stats help a lot. If they ask you to do something they might know what they are talking about. If you have read this guide, you may know more than them.

- If you want to be the best you can be, you should melee/range/mage all in one. Melee to fight, flip on runes to freeze a person stealing your own flag, or ranging them if you are to far behind. It is also best so if you are fighting a mage, you can range them, fighting a meleer, you can mage them, or fighting a ranger, you can melee them.

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- If you are not going to use all attack styles, it is still good to carry melee armour and ranging armour. This way, if you are fighting another meleer or ranger, you can wear your melee armour. If you encounter a mage, or are stealing the other teams flag, flip on dragon hides/karils so that you have less chance of being frozen.

This post has been edited by Lazyboy164: Dec 23 2006, 02:19 AM

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Shazzzle

Feb 2 2006, 09:04 AM | Post #2

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Nice guide lazy

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Urahoe

Feb 2 2006, 09:05 AM | Post #3

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Best Guide ever? :O:O

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Geo1988

Feb 2 2006, 12:34 PM | Post #4

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Thank you for this Lazy <3

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Shredar

Feb 2 2006, 01:30 PM | Post #5

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yay ive been waiting for this thank you,very nice.

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baakalor's son

Feb 2 2006, 03:23 PM | Post #6

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Very good guide, especially for people who havn't played castle wars a lot or people who didn't quite understand. good job lazy

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Makoto

Feb 2 2006, 06:39 PM | Post #7

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Very well done guide, but personally I'd prefer it a lot better if you didn't use text in the pictures themselves.

Other than that, it's very well done.

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Baakalor

Feb 2 2006, 08:34 PM | Post #8

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I'm on the other side Makoto, I like the text in the pics for this particular guide. It was very well done and very informative.

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Lazyboy164

Feb 2 2006, 10:02 PM | Post #9

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I think the pictures are good, I just picked a really crappy Text lol. I might re-do em if I get around to it.

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Mysticallity

Feb 3 2006, 06:02 PM | Post #10

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It's a nice guide. But if you can, you might want to leetify the titles/headings etc. Give it some colours or put them in bold so you don't have to put it in caps.

It has just about everything, good job there!

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Lazyboy164

Feb 3 2006, 07:44 PM | Post #11

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lol leetify.......

[EDIT] k leetified

[EDIT2] Updated with some more "professional" looking pictures

This post has been edited by Lazyboy164: Feb 3 2006, 11:26 PM

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SailorScoutX

Mar 6 2006, 07:55 AM | Post #12

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I really like this guide, however, if i may, i would like to make a suggestion.

For the Melee, you might want to now add in about the d2h's power stab being usefull fo rplayers.

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Lazyboy164

Mar 19 2006, 04:26 AM | Post #13

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Thanks sailor. I added it in.

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Lazyboy164

Dec 23 2006, 01:58 AM | Post #14

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updated..I think I replaced all pictures w/ private chat
had a few more pictures but there is an image limit.

This guide is now basically complete and I doubt i'll ever update it again unless of course, Jagex updates CW

Enjoy.

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spikey188

Dec 23 2006, 03:30 AM | Post #15

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wow nice guide nice pic to had a lot fo friend with you didnt u still nice guide

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