Castle Wars

Castle Wars is a minigame released by Jagex in December of 2004. It is similar to Capture the Flag, but with a RuneScape twist.

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Flag Holding
Flag holding is a tactic used by teams to ensure that the opposing team is unable to score points. This consists of a player grabbing their own flag after an enemy player has dropped it outside their castle and then holding on to it, rendering the opposing team unable to pick it up. To retrieve the flag the opposing team needs to defeat the player holding the flag and pick it up.

When the opposing team has taken a team's flag, the team wait until their enemy is outside the castle and kill them, taking their own team flag in the process (If the flag is dropped inside the castle, attempting to pick it up will result in it being moved back to the standard stand).

A player cannot go into the respawn room when holding their teams or the enemies standard (flag).

Flag-holding tactics
The flag is often taken to a corner of the field with some players protecting it, as a player can be easily protected using two barricades, using the walls as defence from the other two sides.

Another tactic is to hide underground, next to the collapsible walls. The flag holder can then use an explosive potion or a pickaxe to collapse the walls when their enemies try to reach them, thus killing them.

The player that holds the flag will often be someone with a high defence level and bonus or a high level Magic or Ancient Magicks user, players with high leveled Magic or Ancient Magicks can use spells such as Entangle or Ice Burst to immobilize the enemy flag stealers, without the need to hold a weapon. This is advantageous as they can protect themselves using Magic, whereas a player using Ranged will be unable to attack as they will be holding the flag, and a player using Melee will have their attack power compromised by holding the flag, as they will have to use the flag as their weapon. The flag gives no bonuses to Attack, Defense, Strength or Prayer, and has the same attack styles as a spear.

The player will attempt to stay alive for as long as possible, often with a group of players acting as bodyguards. Donating bandages and other supplies to the flag holder may also prove useful.

Flag Stats
Red=Taken, which means the other team has your flag, Yellow=Dropped (on the ground), Green=Safe, in proper area.

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Some players have argued that this stops the fun, as it stops the game from being "Capture the Flag" and turns it into a "Hunt and Kill" game. They argue that flag-holding is basically unfair as if a high-level player gets the flag, they consider the game to be essentially over, especially if their team does not have a player of matching combat ability.

Jagex has made an update to prevent this by making 1 of the enchanted bracelets to a Castlewars bracelet. Castlewars bracelet works for 3 games and is then destroyed. While wearing this bracelet, players will deal 20% more damage to the holder of their flag, and bandages heal 50% more to them.

Trivia

 * Castle Wars has had many bugs regarding some aspects of the game remaining active once players had left the game. These include, but are not limited to:
 * Players remaining as imps, sheep or bunnies after leaving the waiting area.
 * Players still holding their team standard after a game.
 * Players having an "attack" option on other players outside of Castle Wars, despite not being able to attack anyone.
 * Players appearing as if still in the 'dead' position.
 * Castle Wars games do not have random events. Players used to use Castle Wars as a random-free area in which to cast High Level Alchemy on large numbers of items without being attacked. Because of this, Jagex banned non-combat items from the game and made it impossible to cast alchemy spells on items in the battlefield. Jagex also made it impossible to bring any non-combat items into the waiting rooms. Now players may only bring potions, weapons, and armour into Castle Wars.
 * Because of the player having to sacrifice the helmet and cape slot to wear their team colours, the set effects of the Barrows equipment is not active during games of Castle Wars.

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