INTRODUCTION BY SLICE
11/29/94
Compiled By: Slice
Version: 1.00
 
Hello! This file is a compilation of documents I have obtained from the FIDO TradeWars echo and from my own personal experiences. Since Beta 5 has been out for so long and it doesn't look very hopeful for a Beta 6 I decided to put out a file to bring new players up to speed on all the "quirks" of Beta 5.  Obviously, this is for the 2002 2.0 Beta 5 version of Tradewars. For 1.03 or 1.03d games.  I would HIGHLY suggest getting a copy of Iago's War Manual.  It's the bible for those versions and some of the strategies are still valid here. Even if you're playing a Beta 5 game I would put that on your recommended reading list.
 
I would like to thank the following people for their contributions of information in this file....
 
Jeffrey Culbreth, Tony Dye, John A Elson, Gary Fowler, Steve Griffin, Craig Healy, Mike Magero, Mickey Platko, Stephen Whitis, Brit Willoughby, Jason Wilson, Dayne Zimmerman
 

INTRODUCTION BY DIAMOND 5/30/96
 
This is an extensive revision to the Slice-10.doc originally compiled by the above author, Slice.  I found his original document hard to follow because the topics were very scattered.  So I decided to organize it into a book form with an index of subjects at the beginning.  I am grateful for his original efforts as well as the others mentioned above for their wealth of information.  I also made grammatical and spelling corrections to his document.
 
Additionally,  I am including more recent information I have either discovered myself or have gathered from other fellow players I associate with on several local BBS's.  Please see list of references in the back of this manual.  Both the IWM and the TWB are based on information from previous versions of TradeWars 2002, i.e. ver. 1.0x., compared to the recent version 2.01 .  Both the IWM and the TWB also contain a lot of repetitious and overlapping information (See Slice's Intro above).  Below are some of the alias players who contributed their knowledge of the game to me.

Ashlar, Chancellor Gowron, Deathlok, Smash, Khan, Mickey Mouse, Lazarus.