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Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based fantasy strategy game.

Defeat all enemy leaders using a well-chosen cadre of troops, taking care to manage your resources of gold and villages. All units have their own strengths and weaknesses; to win, deploy your forces to their best advantage while denying your foes the chance to do the same. As units gain experience, they acquire new abilities and become more powerful. Play in your own language and test your skill against a smart computer opponent, or join Wesnoth's large community of on-line players. Create your own custom units, scenarios or campaigns, and share them with others.

Battle for Wesnoth is released under the GPL. Prebuilt packages are available for most operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux, or you can build your own from source code.

Getting the Game

Downloading

Download - get the most recent source-files and many binaries
- WesnothBinaries - precompiled for GNU/Linux, BeOS, PDAs, ...
- WesnothBinariesLinux - precompiled for many GNU/Linux distributions

Compiling

CompilingWesnoth - on Unix, Mac, Windows, GNU/Linux, PDAs, ...
DebuggingWesnoth - on GNU/Linux and Unix-like systems
WesnothOnLinuxPDAs - on the Qtopia/OPIE and thepdaXrom/Zaurus C series

Playing the Game (Play)

For New Players

GettingStarted - read me first!
WesnothManual - the rules
MainlineScenarios - walkthroughs for the game-supplied campaigns

For Not-So-New Players

AdvancedTactics - beating the AI and other people
MultiplayerServers - where to play against other people online

Reference

HotKeysSystem - keyboard shortcuts
CommandMode - commands you can use in-game
ServerAdministration - commands that authenticated users can use to administer the server
Units - Units advancement trees and stats
- Wesnoth Unit List (without frames)
- Movement, defense and resistance tables
RaceDescriptions - Elves, Humans, Dwarves, Orcs, Drakes, Undead, Others
- Complete_Faction_List_(unfinished) - list all user made factions
GraphicLibrary - unit and terrain images posted on the forums
- UnsortedContrib - Unsorted Contributions
Wesnoth Acronyms (by category) - common wesnothian acronyms explained
WesnothAcronyms (alphabetic) - common wesnothian acronyms explained

Tweaking the Game (Create)

UserScenarios - user-written scenarios, campaigns and game modifications
ReferenceWML and AlphabeticalWML - all about Wesnoth Markup Language
ReferencePythonAPI - upcoming Python interface for AI
BuildingCampaigns - how to make your own campaigns
BuildingScenarios - how to make your own scenarios
BuildingUnits - how to make your own units
WesnothMapEditor - summary of controls
CastleTutorial - how to create tileable castles and other castle-like tilesets
ExternalUtilities - scripts to help create scenarios, campaigns, and graphics
UnitAnalysis - tool to analyze units

Improving the Game

ReportingBugs - use Gna

Developer information

DeveloperResources - useful links
Changelog - the most recent changes made to the game
WesnothSVN - accessing the source code
HackingWesnoth - guide for programmers
CodingStandards - for programmers
UnitDescriptionRewriting - coordinating the revision
Missing unit animations and sounds - what's available and what's missing
WritingYourOwnAI - write a C++ plugin
ThemeSystem - customizing the screen layout for the game and the editor
ReleasingWesnoth - steps to follow to release a new version
WesnothPackagersGuide - guidelines for packaging Wesnoth for different platforms
WesnothPreferences

Game translations

GettextForTranslators - how to translate Wesnoth under GetText
WesnothTranslations - 11 complete, 2 almost complete, 7 more than halfway, 10 partial
WesCamp - a project for translating user-made campaigns

Ideas

FrequentlyProposedIdeas - before you propose an idea, check here!
NewUnits - units that exist only in theory
Tile_Status - terrain tiles: proposed and in progress.
To submit a feature request, use http://bugs.wesnoth.org

About the Game

WesnothPhilosophy - Dave on Wesnoth
WesnothHistory - the Ages of Wesnoth
WesnothGeography - description of Wesnoth and surrounding lands
WesnothReviews - third party reviews of Wesnoth
#wesnoth - our IRC channel
Donate or buy Wesnoth merchandise.

Other

UsefulLinks
WesnothLSM - presentation at LSM
Map of Wesnoth player locations - add yourself to the map!
Wikipedia entry for Wesnoth
WikiMigration - we were looking for a replacement for our old wiki (and ended up using Mediawiki)

About this Wiki

Editing - learn how to edit pages
Sandbox - experiment with the wiki

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 * [http://wesnoth.slack.it/units.cgi Units] - Units advancement trees and stats
 ** [http://wesnoth.slack.it/units.cgi?page=frames Wesnoth Unit List] ([http://wesnoth.slack.it/units.cgi?page=list without frames])
-** [http://wesnoth.slack.it/units.cgi?factions Factions]
 ** [http://wesnoth.slack.it/units.cgi?movetypes Movement, defense and resistance tables]
 * [[RaceDescriptions]] - Elves, Humans, Dwarves, Orcs, Drakes, Undead, Others
+** [[Complete_Faction_List_%28unfinished%29]] - list all user made factions
 * [[GraphicLibrary]] - unit and terrain images posted on the forums
 **[[UnsortedContrib]] - Unsorted Contributions
-**[[GameArt]] - Art for the main game
 * [[WesnothAcronyms|Wesnoth Acronyms (by category)]] - common wesnothian acronyms explained
 * [[WesnothAcronyms(alphabetic)|WesnothAcronyms (alphabetic)]] - common wesnothian acronyms explained