Strategies

This article is a work in progress (W.I.P), more will be added with time.

## Overview

When playing Awesome Tanks, there are many methods you can employ to achieve success more easily; below is a list of some useful ones.

## Beating enemies

#### Baiting

Baiting involves getting the attention of an enemy, and then fleeing. It is good when used against Enemy Tanks or Bosses, but doesn't work for Turrets. There are two main versions of this strategy;

1. Corner baiting: Corner baiting means alerting an enemy, and then running around a corner; this will make the enemy follow you around the same corner. When this happens, you can get an easy shot into them as they round it. This is useful with weapons like Shotgun, Railgun, or Cannon, as the enemy cannot usually target you if you destroy them in 1 shot.
2. Separating: Separating means pulling one enemy away from a crowd. This allows you to quickly and easily dispatch a single enemy; then you can repeat this for each one, avoiding a large battle. Imagine being an assassin; taking out each guard 1 by 1 without alerting them all. Be careful as shooting an enemy may cause others to come too.

#### Sniping

Sniping involves using a long range gun, such as Cannon, Railgun, or Shock to pick off enemies from range. Simply stay outside their vision distance (about 4 tiles) and shoot them from afar. Note that the target will **always** come to you upon being shot, hence killing in 1 hit is benificial. Like with separating, this will likely cause nearby enemies to come too, so be prepared to run.

#### Rocketing

This tactic uses soley the Rocket weapon. To perform it find a distant space with tiles, preferable the grey wall tiles as they are indestructable, between you and the enemies. Next, fire rockets and guide them to the target area. Repeat this until you're satisfied with the results. Note that enemies may come looking for you, so having good reaction time, guidance skills and a close range backup like Shotgun is wise.

#### Barrel exploding

When Barrels explode, they deal a lot of damage in an area. By shooting one deliberately with enemies nearby, you can easily kill a few. This works great against groups of enemies, Turrets and Bosses.

Be careful you're not too close (about 2 tiles) as you may take damage yourself.

#### Run and gun

This method works well if you can control your tank well and react quickly. Take a turret such as Shotgun, Cannon, or Railgun and drive around the map at full speed, killing enemies as you go. Avoid turrets like Laser, Minigun, Rocket or Shock, as they take too long to kill sometimes and can land you in hot water.

Risks of this strategy are getting stuck on tiles or enemies, taking damage often due to the close range to enemies, and taking damage from Barrels shot by enemies. However, this is a fun and rewarding way of blasting through the stages, so long as you do it carefully.

### Quickswitching

If you have a weapon with high shot damage but long cooldown (such as Cannon or Railgun) and you don't want to wait before firing another shot, fire a shot, then immediately switch to any other weapon then back and fire again, switching out and back erases the cooldown. It is recommended to use the number keys to switch, as using the mouse can be too slow.

Alternately, take two of the high damage guns and fire, then switch, then fire, then switch back, then fire.