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Egallager: /* The Land of Wesnoth */ minor wikification

2023-04-07T15:08:41Z

‎The Land of Wesnoth: minor wikification

Egallager: /* Finding Your Way Around Battle For Wesnoth */ minor wikification

2023-04-07T15:01:07Z

‎Finding Your Way Around Battle For Wesnoth: minor wikification

Pentarctagon at 22:06, 11 May 2020

2020-05-11T22:06:26Z

Octalot: /* Finding Your Way Around Battle For Wesnoth */ It's now possible to change difficulty mid-campaign

2019-07-08T14:30:57Z

‎Finding Your Way Around Battle For Wesnoth: It's now possible to change difficulty mid-campaign

Shadowm: Better styles for floating the toc

2018-05-09T21:55:36Z

Better styles for floating the toc

Octalot: /* Finding Your Way Around Battle For Wesnoth */ Recommend starting with AToTB instead of HttT

2018-04-30T15:56:24Z

‎Finding Your Way Around Battle For Wesnoth: Recommend starting with AToTB instead of HttT

Shadowm at 02:39, 12 August 2017

2017-08-12T02:39:05Z

Iceiceice: add note about where to report bugs

2014-05-27T06:54:19Z

add note about where to report bugs

Vultraz: /* Finding Your Way Around Battle For Wesnoth */

2014-03-18T01:13:41Z

‎Finding Your Way Around Battle For Wesnoth

Davros: /* Campaigns */

2012-04-14T16:28:27Z

‎Campaigns

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 === Welcome to Wesnoth ===
 ==== The Land of Wesnoth ====
-The Land of Wesnoth is generally divided into three areas: the northlands, which are generally lawless; the kingdom of Wesnoth and its occasional principality, Elensefar; and the domain of the Southwest Elves.
+The Land of Wesnoth is generally divided into three areas: the northlands, which are generally lawless; the kingdom of Wesnoth and its occasional principality, [[Elensefar]]; and the domain of the Southwest Elves.
 The Kingdom of Wesnoth lies in the center of the land. Its borders are the Great River to the north, the Lower Hills in the east and south, the Green Swamp to the southwest, and the Ocean to the west. Elensefar, a once-province of Wesnoth, is bordered by the Great River to the north, a loosely defined line with Wesnoth to the east, the Bay of Pearls to the south, and the ocean to the west. There is no government of the Northlands. Various groups of orcs, dwarves, barbarians and even elves populate the region. The northern and eastern borders are not defined, the southern border is the Great River, and the western border is the Ocean.

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 *Tutorial
-:The tutorial is a real, but basic, game which teaches you some of the basic controls needed to play the game. Winning or losing is not important here, but learning what to do is. Click the Tutorial button to play. In the Tutorial you are in the role of the young prince Konrad or princess Li'sar, learning from the Elder Mage Delfador - pay attention or he might turn you into a newt.
+:The tutorial is a real, but basic, game which teaches you some of the basic controls needed to play the game. Winning or losing is not important here, but learning what to do is. Click the Tutorial button to play. In the Tutorial you are in the role of the young prince Konrad or princess Li'sar, learning from the Elder Mage [[Delfador]] - pay attention or he might turn you into a newt.
 *Campaign

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 *Preferences
-:Click here to change default settings. These are explained in more detail in [[PlayingBattleForWesnoth#Preferences|the Manual]].
+:Click here to change default settings.
 *About
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 #Save Game: Write the current game position to disk.
 #Load Game
-#Preferences: see [[PlayingBattleForWesnoth#Preferences|the Manual]] for details.
+#Preferences
 #Back to: Return to previous turns without opening the Load Game dialog. Not available in all games.
 #Help
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 ==== Money ====
-Your army does not fight for free. It costs you money to recruit units and money to maintain them. You start each scenario with money carried over from previous scenarios (although each scenario ensures you have at least a minimum amount of gold to start if you didn't carry over enough from previous scenarios) and can gain more by meeting scenario objectives quickly and, during a scenario, by controlling villages. Each village you control will give you two gold pieces income per turn. When you first start a scenario it is usually worthwhile to gain control of as many villages as you can to ensure you have sufficient income to wage war. You can see your current gold and current income at the top of the screen as described in the section on [[#The_Game_Screen|the Game Screen]]. More information can be found in [[PlayingBattleForWesnoth#Gold|the manual]].
+Your army does not fight for free. It costs you money to recruit units and money to maintain them. You start each scenario with money carried over from previous scenarios (although each scenario ensures you have at least a minimum amount of gold to start if you didn't carry over enough from previous scenarios) and can gain more by meeting scenario objectives quickly and, during a scenario, by controlling villages. Each village you control will give you two gold pieces income per turn. When you first start a scenario it is usually worthwhile to gain control of as many villages as you can to ensure you have sufficient income to wage war. You can see your current gold and current income at the top of the screen as described in the section on [[#The_Game_Screen|the Game Screen]].
 ==== Save and Load ====
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 ==== Healing ====
-An important part of succeeding at Battle for Wesnoth is keeping your units healthy. When your units take damage you can heal them by moving them onto villages or next to special healing units (e.g. the Elvish Shaman and White Mage). Some other units you will encounter, such as Trolls, have the ability to heal themselves naturally. You can find more detailed information about healing in [[PlayingBattleForWesnoth#Healing|Chapter 2]].
+An important part of succeeding at Battle for Wesnoth is keeping your units healthy. When your units take damage you can heal them by moving them onto villages or next to special healing units (e.g. the Elvish Shaman and White Mage). Some other units you will encounter, such as Trolls, have the ability to heal themselves naturally.
 ==== Winning a scenario ====

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 :Wesnoth was primarily designed to play campaigns. Campaigns are a series of connected scenarios. Click this button to start a new campaign. You will be presented with a list of campaigns available on your computer (more can be downloaded if you wish). Select your campaign and click OK to start or Cancel to quit.
-:Each campaign has a difficulty level: easy, medium (normal), and hard. Some have an extra setting, 'nightmare'.  We recommend medium as this level is challenging, but not difficult. You may not change the difficulty during the campaign. In case you have serious problems fighting your way through easy difficulty, the guide about [[BasicStrategy]] will surely help you. Once you have selected the difficulty, you will start with the first scenario of the campaign. A good campaign to start with is the Tale of Two Brothers. You can find walkthroughs or descriptions of the available campaigns at:
+:Each campaign has a difficulty level: easy, medium (normal), and hard. Some have an extra setting, 'nightmare'.  We recommend medium as this level is challenging, but not difficult. In case you have serious problems fighting your way through easy difficulty, the guide about [[BasicStrategy]] will surely help you. Once you have selected the difficulty, you will start with the first scenario of the campaign. A good campaign to start with is the Tale of Two Brothers. You can find walkthroughs or descriptions of the available campaigns at:
 ::* [[MainlineCampaigns]]
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 :Click this button to load a previously saved game. You will be shown a dialogue listing saved games. Select the game and click Ok to load and continue, or Cancel to return to the Main Menu.
-:If you select a replay game, you can check the Replay check box. The loaded game will make all the moves from the beginning while you watch.
+:If you select a game that is not a start-of-scenario save, you can check the Replay check box. The loaded game will make all the moves from the beginning while you watch.
 *Language

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 * After slaughtering scenarios (where you take lots of punishment) there are usually "breathing room" scenarios where you can rather easily gain some gold and experience (advanced units)
 * Advanced units have higher upkeep than lower level units (1 gp per level), loyal units are an exception.
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 ==== Campaigns ====
-Campaigns can take a long time to complete. Typical campaigns have about 10-20 scenarios. The main advantage with campaigns is that they allow you to develop your army. As you complete each scenario, the remaining units at the end are saved for you to use in the next scenario. If you choose not to use a unit at all during a scenario it is carried over to the next, so you don't lose units you don't use.
+Campaigns can take a long time to complete .... Typical campaigns have about 10-20 scenarios. The main advantage with campaigns is that they allow you to develop your army. As you complete each scenario, the remaining units at the end are saved for you to use in the next scenario. If you choose not to use a unit at all during a scenario it is carried over to the next, so you don't lose units you don't use.
 The campaign is the primary form in which Wesnoth is intended to be played, and is the recommended way for new players to learn the game. Some Official campaigns also describe the history of Wesnoth as scenarios are completed.