MekWars Map tab

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Contents 1 Understanding the Battles Screen information 1.1 Colors 1.2 Icons 1.3 Range 2 Planetary informations

Understanding the Battles Screen information

The map tab display the campaign current strategic view. Each dot of the map is a colonized world in the universe void.

Colors

Each dot is colored. Colors indicate the current faction that control the world, but there are some special colors.

• Basic colors (MegaMekNET settings)
  • Yellow : Federated Suns
  • Red : Draconis Combine
  • Blue : Lyran Commonwealth
  • Green : Capellan Confederation
  • Purple : Free Worlds League
  • Pink : Periphery
  • Grey : Bandit Kings
  • Light blue: Solaris Training Company
  • Brown : Comstar
• Special colors
  • Light green : Contested world.
  • Blinking : Ongoing battle.

Icons

Icons indicates that a world has major strategic interest.

• Homeworld. The capital world of the faction. This is a campaign goal.
• Image:MekWars ui map factory.gif Factory. The world house major industrial infrastructures, the world is capable to produce unit for your army.

Range

Selecting a world draw circles around it. Those circles represent operation ranges. Each circle indicate the target within range.

Planetary informations

Right click a world open a contextual menu. Selecting "information" menu entry will open a planetary summary dialog describing the world.

• Location indicates the Cartesian coordinates of the world and distance from the galaxy center.
• Industry describe the industrial power of the world.
• Factories describe the factories housed by the world.
• Terrain list each terrain that can be encountered on this world, and the chance to encounter it.
• Influence show the fractions owned by each faction.
• Original Owner meaning is plain.