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Hedgewars, it's a Blast!

This is the funniest and most addictive game you'll ever play - hilarious fun that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. Hedgewars is a turn based strategy game but the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by those pesky hedgehogs with those fantastic weapons - sneaky little blighters with a bad attitude!

Game description

Each player controls a team of several hedgehogs. During the course of the game, players take turns with one of their hedgehogs. They then use whatever tools and weapons are available to attack and kill the opponents' hedgehogs, thereby winning the game. Hedgehogs may move around the terrain in a variety of ways, normally by walking and jumping but also by using particular tools such as the "Rope" or "Parachute", to move to otherwise inaccessible areas. Each turn is time-limited to ensure that players do not hold up the game with excessive thinking or moving.
A large variety of tools and weapons are available for players during the game: Grenade, Cluster Bomb, Bazooka, UFO, Shotgun, Desert Eagle, Fire Punch, Baseball Bat, Dynamite, Mine, Rope, Pneumatic pick, Parachute. Most weapons, when used, cause explosions that deform the terrain, removing circular chunks. The landscape is an island floating on a body of water, or a restricted cave with water at the bottom. A hedgehog dies when it enters the water (either by falling off the island, or through a hole in the bottom of it), it is thrown off either side of the arena or when its health is reduced, typically from contact with explosions, to zero (the damage dealt to the attacked hedgehog or hedgehogs after a player's or CPU turn is shown only when all movement on the battlefield has ceased).

Getting started

Game weapons

Slot Name Description Tips
F1 Bazooka This weapon launches a projectile that explodes on impact Always check the wind and use it to your advantage

Affected by wind

Hold fire button to increase power
UFO A weapon that launches a projectile that will go to the direction you aimed and then it shoots at his target. If the target is close, the ufo will strike more precisely

Affected by wind

Hold fire button to increase power
Drill rocket A projectile that drill the terrain and explodes at the end of terrain (or after a predefined time) Affected by wind

Hold fire button to increase power
F2 Grenade A timed explosive You can set the timer of the explosion by pressing a number between 1 and 5

The timer starts to run as soon as you throw the grenade away

Hold fire button to increase power
Cluster bomb A timed explosive that when explodes it releases miniature bomblets to spread damage over a wide area You can set the timer of the explosion by pressing a number between 1 and 5

The timer starts to run as soon as you throw the grenade away

Hold fire button to increase power
Mortar A projectile that explodes on impact and release tiny clusters to make damage
Watermelon bomb Similar to cluster bomb, when the watermelon explodes releases peaces of itself with devastating power. Super Weapon

Hold fire button to increase power
F3 Shotgun Shoot enemy with a maximum of 25 damage You can fire two times

When you shoot once you cannot change weapon
DEagle Shoot enemy with a maximum of 7 damage You can fire four times

When you shoot once you cannot change weapon
Seduction The hedgehog disguise itself and attract the target It works well when the target is in front of a precipice
Ballgun Tons of tiny balls that shoots the target everywhere Super Weapon
F4 Fire punch Hit the hedgehog by your side and make it fly
Whip Whip the hedgehog by your side
Baseball bat Hit the hedgehog by your side with the baseball bat and teach him how to swim At the beginning of the round this weapon is disabled for two turns
Kamikaze Your hedgehog will spearhead suicide with full force against the enemy, even opening a gap in the terrain. The hedgehog explodes after a few seconds
F5 Mine Proximity mines that detonate if a hedgehog stands too close to it
Dynamite An explosive that detonates after a few seconds and shoots the hedgehogs near it far away
Cake A birthday cake that walk on the terrain and explode whenever you want When you want to stop cake just press fire button

At the beginning of the round this weapon is disabled for four turns
Hellish hand-grenade A grenade that, exploding, creates a hell of fire in the area Hold fire button to increase power
F6 Air attack Select a specific area that will be bombarded from five missiles falling from the sky You can launch this attack from anywhere

At the beginning of the round this weapon is disabled for five turns
Mine attack Mines fall from the sky and attack everyone is in the proximity of them Mines bounce when fall in the terrain

At the beginning of the round this weapon is disabled for five turns
Napalm A hell of fire falling from the sky At the beginning of the round this weapon is disabled for seven turns

Affected by wind
F7 PickHammer A useful weapon to drill the ground under your hedgehog
Blowtorch An engineering weapon to burn a tunnel into the terrain
Construction An engineering weapon. Allows to place a horizontal or vertical platform anywhere above the terrain
F8 Rope A useful tool for getting across the map without losing a turn While on the rope, a hedgehog can drop dynamite or other weapons

It has a limited lenght

You can command the lenght and the oscillation of the rope with arrow keys
Parachute Use the parachute to fall slowly from a high altitude Affected by wind
Teleportation Teleport the hedgehog everywhere in the map The hedgehog needs enough space to teleport
F9 Skip Skip your turn if it's necessary
Switch hedgehog A useful weapon that allow to switch the hedgehog which you want to play with Press fire button to activate the weapon and tab button to switch between your hedgehog

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