Emps-Wars
Emps-wars is a team based PvP safe minigame in which players fight against each other in 2 teams to gain control of the team's castle. Players get Emps-Wars tickets for playing this minigame, these tickets can be spent at the Emps wars exchange for items. The goal of the minigame is to kill the opposing team's boss. The round is over when 15 minutes have passed, a boss has been killed or either team reaches 10 points through capturing flags.
Emps wars consists out of a lobby with a bank chest, the Emps wars exchange run by Lanthus, and a square battlefield with two castles and a river with an outpost in the middle. In the lobby players can go in the Guthix portal (take off your cape, as you will be wearing a team cape in the minigame) to be randomly put in the Zamorak (red team) or in the Saradomin (blue) team. The game will start once 1 player have joined both side and have waited 120 seconds. The players will be teleported to their castle and can stack on gear and healing bandages in order to siege the enemy castle.
To reach Emps wars you can either talk to the Tyras guard at the Grand Exchange (or in the Falador park), or use a Ring of duelling to teleport to Castle wars straight away.
Bosses
Each team has a boss that can be killed. The saradomin team has the Ice queen and the zamorak team has Fahreed. They have no defense bonuses, you will be able to damage them regardless of your levels or gear. Their attacks deal damage based on your hp level, which makes it so that you won't get killed as fast if you're at a low hp level. The amount of hitpoints they have scales based on the size of your team, the more players the higher the enemy boss' it will be.
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Tactics
Castle-Wars is a team-based minigame. You will need the rest of your team and coordinate well in order to win a round. If you want to win consistently doing well on both offense and defense is a good idea. There are also some items and other things you may take advantage of while playing the minigame.
On the bottom floor of your castle there are a few tables with some useful items.
| Image | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Barricade | Can be placed at your feet to create a barricade, has 50 hitpoints | |
| Explosive potion | Can be used to blow up barricades instantly or collapse tunnels underground | |
| Bronze pickaxe | Can be used to mine away collapsed tunnels underground |
Defensive
To defend your castle you'll want to keep the other team out of it as much as possible. Using barricades, closing doors or having people freeze the enemy team will win you a lot of time. Keep in mind that barricades might limit the movement of your own team as well. If people are already at your boss you should kill them so that they stop damaging it.
Offensive
Pretty straightforward, just move to the other castle and start attacking the boss. If the boss is heavily defended going for flags is a good idea. If you get attacked at the boss pray accordingly and focus on dealing as much damage as you can before you die.
Ticket farming
The actual best way to farm tickets as quickly as possible is to run flags to gain points. People sometimes use multiple accounts to make the runs faster back and forth between both castle.
Requirements
- At least 37 Prayer (43+ recommended)
- 70+ Hitpoints (higher is recommended)
- 40+ Defence (higher is recommended)
- Decent armor (Rune armour or better)
- Prayer potions (optional)
- Scroll of double exp (optional but highly recommended)
- Either someone that is willing to AFK or 1 additional accounts to start the game
The Method
Before starting the game, equip your armor, take a couple of prayer potions (3 should suffice) and a scroll of double exp. The actual method on doing this is pretty straightforward. After starting the game, take the bandages on the table inside your spawn and fill your inventory up. Downstairs you have a choice to make on which route you're going to take. There are two - the underground, which is slower but safer and is, therefore, recommended to lower level players and the surface, which is faster but more risky.
The Tunnel route
Take a pickaxe off the Pickaxes Table, head north-west and down the ladder. Go through the tunnel to the opposite side (if there are rocks blocking your path, use the pickaxe to mine them and go through). Once you're through, start praying melee and head up. When you're about to enter the boss floor, pray magic and be prepared to tank a few hits. Grab the flag and eat whenever you're getting hit, and make your way back through the tunnel into your base. Once you capture the flag, if you're very low on prayer, head down under your spawn, take explosive potions and drop them to die and respawn with full hitpoints and prayer points.
The Surface route
Head to the opposite side of the map for the opposing castle. Once you're nearing the mid-point of the map, start praying mage and keep running. If you're taking a lot of damage, be sure to use your bandages. Climb up the castle, into the boss chamber, take the flag and make your way back.
Before the end of the game, if you've brought a double experience scroll - use it. This method nets you around 50-100 tickets per minigame.
Tickets and rewards
A win will award players 8 tickets, a loss 1. Capturing a flag awards the player 4 tickets. The rewards can be bought from Lanthus.
| Image | Item | Tickets | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saradomin katana | 250 | Requires 80 Attack; upgrade of the saradomin sword | |
| Corrupt dragon scimitar | 50 | Requires 70 Attack; upgrade of the dragon scimitar | |
| Corrupt dragon longsword | 50 | Requires 70 Attack; upgrade of the dragon longsword | |
| Corrupt dragon battleaxe | 50 | Requires 70 Attack; upgrade of the dragon battleaxe | |
| Corrupt dragon dagger | 50 | Requires 70 Attack; upgrade of the dragon dagger | |
| Corrupt dragon mace | 50 | Requires 70 Attack; upgrade of the dragon mace | |
| Corrupt dragon spear | 50 | Requires 70 Attack; upgrade of the dragon spear | |
| Initiate sallet | 19 | Requires 10 Prayer and 20 Defence | |
| Initiate hauberk | 30 | Requires 10 Prayer and 20 Defence | |
| Initiate cuisse | 24 | Requires 10 Prayer and 20 Defence | |
| Corrupt dragon medium helm | 30 | Requires 70 Defence; upgrade of the dragon medium helm | |
| Corrupt dragon chainbody | 30 | Requires 70 Defence; upgrade of the dragon chainbody | |
| Corrupt dragon platelegs | 30 | Requires 70 Defence; upgrade of the dragon platelegs | |
| Corrupt dragon plateskirt | 30 | Requires 70 Defence; upgrade of the dragon plateskirt | |
| Corrupt dragon square shield | 30 | Requires 70 Defence; upgrade of the dragon square shield | |
| Ava's accumulator | 135 | Requires 50 Ranged; useful for saving arrows while ranging | |
| Saradomin team hood | 79 | Show off your favourite team! | |
| Saradomin team cape | 79 | Show off your favourite team! | |
| Zamorak team hood | 79 | Show off your favourite team! | |
| Zamorak team cape | 79 | Show off your favourite team! | |
| Magic notepaper | 1 | Can be used to note items. | |
| Brawling gloves (melee) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while training Attack, Strength or Defence for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (ranged) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while training Range for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (magic) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while training Magic for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (prayer) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while training Prayer for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (agility) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while training Agility for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (woodcutting) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while Woodcutting for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (firemaking) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while Firemaking for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (mining) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while Mining for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (hunter) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while Hunting for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (thieving) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while Thieving for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (smithing) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while Smithing for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (fishing) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while Fishing for 750 uses | |
| Brawling gloves (cooking) | 51 | Gives 50% bonus experience while Cooking for 750 uses | |
| Castle wars flag cape | 24 | Cape that provides minor combat bonuses | |
| Castle wars kills cape | 24 | Cape that provides minor combat bonuses | |
| Castle wars hobbyist cape | 24 | Cape that provides minor combat bonuses | |
| Castle wars enthusiast cape | 24 | Cape that provides minor combat bonuses | |
| Castle wars professional cape | 24 | Cape that provides minor combat bonuses | |
| Bonecrusher | 500 | Aura that automatically buries bone drops and grants Prayer exp |