The WeeWar Times

FORWARD The originally scheduled piece "Bluffer's Guide to WeeWar - Part 3" has been laid aside on the grounds that it was simply "too rubbish for words" (thanks ed). Instead, the release the of new Flash version of the game has provided WeeWarTimes with the opportunity to commission some reasoned and incisive analysis amid disturbing scenes of disgruntlement, anger, and shock at the changes. Hoards of rabid protesters stand outside WeeWar Towers, and the sounds of pitchforks being sharpened, knees jerking, credit card ... Read More

Image via Wikipedia The WeeWar Times is happy to announce something new - a map making contest!  The contest will begin with the publishing of this post and will end on January 31st-ish.  I will close the contest to new entries sometime on the February 1st with a comment on this post that will serve as the official end of the contest. The Prize?  1 year of WeeWar Pro to the account of your choice! The Rules: - 2 Player map - Balanced - Maps ... Read More

WeeWar has always had a strong social component for an online war strategy game, and to further that aspect of the game WeeWar has been integrated to Facebook's Facebook Connect technology. You can now link your WeeWar account to your Facebook account for login and information sharing.  The only thing that I've seen so far is the ability to publish open games to your Facebook feed, that looks like this: might want to avoid special characters.  And appears on your Facebook feed like this: (note ... Read More

Owning multiple accounts in WeeWar is a generally accepted practice as long as they aren't used for evil. Droning, or secretly controlling another player in a multiplayer game, is a good way to get blacklisted and shunned, the same goes for point harvesting. There are many legitimate uses for multiple accounts including but not limited to: 2 Pro accounts for more games More Map storage Map testing Playing multiple team members in a team game Keeping yourself company on slow days in chat or the forums Be sure ... Read More

Weewar is down again - looks a little different this time as the site now just resolves to an Apache folder listing and clicking thru give you the somewhat ironic message "It Works!". Image by The Library of Virginia via Flickr If you're bored be sure to take a look at the first two installments of Captain Cupcake's Bluffer's Guide to Weewar and leave a comment with your thoughts!Related articles by ZemantaWeeWar Is Down - 11/22/09 (WeeWarTimes.com)Bluffer's Guide To Weewar (WeeWarTimes.com)Bluffer's Guide To Weewar ... Read More

PART TWO: GAME BASICS 2.1 Introduction Never feel intimidated or stupid: Weewar is no more complex than chess to the nth degree with bases, different colors and some other stuff. It is well within the grasp of your average strategically-shaved simian - and you're better than that. It's important to remember: firstly it is far cooler than chess (and the sort of thing you can talk about at dinner parties) and secondly, as a bluffer, your primary goal is to give the appearance of ... Read More

Update again - back up! Need to reload your avatar. Maps regenning Update: Alex posts to the blog Weewar servers are down, comments from the recent blog post about the server change indicate that this is unexpected and the devs are looking into it. Images and API connections are not resolving although test.weewar.com still seems to be available. No word on when we'll be back up, will update if I hear anything. If you are having severe withdrawals maybe you should take ... Read More

Editor's Note: This post is from WeeWar User CaptainCupCake, and is the first of hopefully many to come so be sure to check the author on future posts. CCC's view MAY or may not be the views held by The WeeWar Times, it's parent company, or any baked goods we have laying about: _______________________________________________ Tired of getting Weewar sand kicked in your face? Embarrassed at dinner parties when the After Eight mints are handed round and talk turns to the game? Feel inadequate that ... Read More

WeeWar user and code monkey davewasthere has completed initial work on his WeeWar Team Chat GreaseMonkey Script. Grab it at that link and be sure to check out the discussion on the forums to see what other enhancements are coming for the script. To make this work, Dave is hosting and storing this data on his own servers for us. As a reward for making such an amazing script and providing it free for the community I would like to ... Read More

On the surface there appear to be two main camps when the topic of rated games and points comes up: 1 - Those who care about their point total and prefer to see it move upwards as a reflection of their skill level 2 - Those who don't care about their point total and play without regard to it or if a game is rated or not Image via Wikipedia There are outliers that are willing to cheat, beg, or try to manipulate their way into ... Read More