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About
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**The Battle for Wesnoth** is an Open Source, turn-based tactical strategy game with a
high fantasy theme, featuring both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer
combat. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take
hand in any number of other adventures.


License
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Please see the wiki for information regarding The Battle for Wesnoth's licensing:

  <https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Wesnoth:Copyrights>


Installing
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See [INSTALL](/INSTALL.md) for instructions on how to build the game from source code.


More Information
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For extensive documentation about all aspects of the game, see the
official Battle for Wesnoth web site.

  <https://www.wesnoth.org/>

A (translated) description of how to play the game can be found in
doc/manual/manual.*.html, or online at:

  <https://wiki.wesnoth.org/WesnothManual>

The official Battle for Wesnoth Forums (with over 400,000 posts from more than
20,000 registered members) can be found at:

  <https://forums.wesnoth.org/>