Method Credit: Lex

Strategy-wise, this run requires setting things up to pick off one worm each turn, and get one double kill. Which seems to be as efficient as we can get, since the worms are very isolated. And as with most missions, fewer turns generally means lower overall round time. Start by using alt f4 + space to get to the 2nd attempt. I'm going to call the AI Worm 1 to Worm 7, as they appear from right to left.

Turn 1: Use rope to quickly grab the dyna crate, then dragon ball Worm 1 into the drink. Try to end your turn as far right as possible. Your worm acts as bait: it will draw air strike fire from Worm 6, who would normally attack your far left worm, which could kill it and ruin the run. Also, your first worm dying will be good for turn order on your last turn.

Turn 2: Use rope to set off the mine, do one swing backward, then come forward and land where the mine was. Since the mine damaged Worm 3, you have around .2 secs of walking after you land before you're interrupted by damage animation. To avoid this, try to land in a spot where you can fire punch Worm 2 without moving. If you miss that spot, try to jump immediately then fire punch. You want to end your turn as far left as you can, since you'll be in prime double kill position later.

Turn 3: Worm 7 will have lobbed a nade at your far left worm; sometimes this kills, and if this happens, you really just have to restart. If not, then with your third worm, just kill Worm 6. Fire punch is the fastest way, but it takes some practice to hit and then land without taking fall damage. You want to be just a bit right of being horizontally lined up with Worm 6. If you want to stay safe, just use shotgun to kill.

As for the retreat, I think this is the best position I've found (from the airstrike luck run), standing with the end of your tail in line with the bottom of the red thing:

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This position manipulates Worm 5 into walking right, closer to the mines, which I assume it does to distance itself from your worm, and possibly to give it a better position for firing on your far left worm. The point is to get Worm 4 to air strike you, barely hitting Worm 5 into the mines. Now this position doesn't have a lot of margin for error. If you go much further right, Worm 5 will nade at your worm, possibly pushing you into a location where Worm 4 won't hit Worm 5 with the air strike. E.g. pushing you left onto the grey tube.

Turn 4: Now with your far left worm, rope up and bat Worm 7. Bat has a long hitbox, so you can get pretty far away, which helps for the retreat. And the retreat is the crucial component here for the aforementioned air strike. Next turn, normally Worm 4 targets your left worm. But if you end your retreat roughly where I do, Worm 4 instead walks right and targets your middle worm every time. I don't know exactly what causes the AI to change targets like this, it may have something to do with how 'unhittable' your worm is in this spot. In any case, small changes to your worm position can sometimes result in the AI switching targets. A good way to land in this spot is just jumping when you're in the middle of the whiter part of the glass:

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Turn 5: Now if you were lucky, Worm 4's airstrike will have hit and killed Worm 5; as far as I know, there's some luck here in exactly where it aims. I've included the case where this does and doesn't happen. In either case, with your 2nd worm, just lay the dyna immediately to kill Worm 3 and Worm 4. This is where manipulating Worm 4 to walk right pays off.

Turn 6: If Worm 5's still alive, try to make sure you spent the AI's turn planning how to kill it. Rope to it quickly. If the worm hasn't moved, fire punch will kill in either of the two main positions it might take, which is a quick way to attack. Minigun is also a good option, if it's pressed up against land.

Method Credit: Deadcode, Bloopy, Nekton

Turn 1: Walk left and bow the two mines on the tower. It's not too difficult to freehand these shots. However, if you're going for a consistent run, it's good to have fairly precise locations to shoot from, because small changes in distance/angle will result in big changes to the power the bow imparts to the mine.

1st shot: a spot I like is on the head of your left worm. Crawling up the back slowly, it would be the first spot where you can't get any higher on the worm. From there, just aim at the mine. Two angles will hit it, but go with the one where you see a sprite change, as you're adjusting from low to high. For the second shot, barely touch your left worm and do a backflip, as shown, then just shoot at max angle to do away with the 2nd mine. As for the retreat, I'm favoring jumping forward to act as a walkway for your next worm.

Turn 2: Start by jumping forward, which gives you air time to place a long vertical girder, then end your turn about halfway up that first stretch of the tower. This placement should be pretty exact, here's one that works well:

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One way to memorize this placement is looking at the red cursor; its rightmost column of pixels is horizontally just 1 pixel away from touching this feature of the tower. And the top pixel in that column is vertically lined up with it.

Turn 3: After climbing up the first stretch of the tower by jumping on your worm's head, climb up the second stretch the same way every time, as shown. Backflip as high as you can onto the tower, then backflip bounce off the tower (make sure you're pressed up against it), then backflip bounce off the girder. From there, just snag the Aqua Sheep and do a quick double tap at the right spot to kill the AI; the sheep penetrates deeper when released than when flying.

Method Credit: Deadcode, Quasi Qubit

Turn 1: As you attach the first rope, I think it's a bit better to just aim without jumping. This ensures your rope stays about as long as it can get. Now grab the crate, extend 100%, and try to let yourself slide just a bit right of the vertical. At this point, quickly use the girder pack. I find it easiest to start at the right, placing the last girder right as you gain the most speed.

The placement of the girders is up to you, but I find it to be less cluttered if you place 2 right next to each other in the upper right. After that, it's just 1 girder per mushroom, all at the top and fairly equally spaced; the locations I use seem pretty easy. Once you get going on rope, you need to pick up a lot of speed. Keeping your rope long also helps, as this means less travel time to the crate. This one is worth practicing until you can do it more often than not in 1 turn.

Backup Strategy: The crate just to the right of all the mines is a teleport, which you could use if you fell near.

c0o1's method stands here, for sure.

Turn 1: blowtorch right (just enough to make it through), backflip and try to stand on the enemy worm's head. Use skip walking when you can (I'm still figuring out how to do this without using my right hand). Keep in mind this is a speed run, so extra angles, skip walking, telecows, etc, are allowed.

Turn 2: Bungee toss yourself to get up. A soft landing generally does save time, as shown in Alex13's run here, but I attached two examples of a hard landing, not much slower. I think it's fine to prioritize just getting up there in general.

Turn 3: Not much to say, try to bungee to efficiently grab the jetpack and snag the crate.

The skill needed here is really memorizing your bungee motion to get that first bounce, otherwise you won't have enough power. And you need to use just 2 bounces off the wall, or it won't save time. My swing thought right now is hold down/left the whole way down, then switch to up/right just a moment before the worm reaches the bottom of the bungeeing, the last moment they still have a tiny bit of downward velocity. It's working pretty well at the moment, I think I can get it almost every time.

So, I think this 3 turn route is about as safe and repeatable as it gets. First off, I'm using alt f4 and space to skip to the 5th try of this mission, where a crate spawns allowing you to get a triple in the first turn. And there doesn't seem to be any other way to get a triple like this.

Turn 1: Grab the 2 crates, then bat the worm to get a triple. To memorize this angle, it's the first sprite change above the 45 degree position, then 1 more notch. My worm ends its turn in a spot making the AI guaranteed to hit my 2 worm pile/walk right.

Turn 2: Just a bat to pile, doesn't have to be totally exact. I tend to walk left on retreat, which I believe makes the AI more likely to pick the right two worms as targets next turn.

Turn 3: Just double damage and airstrike, I've found aiming left best. Now here, it's assumed the AI worm will have walked right. Depending on wind though, it won't do this 100% of the time; at least I'm not sure there's a way to ensure this. I think later I'll include what we might do in this case, though we may have to just say the run is no longer viable if that happens.

Possible Improvements: There may be some way to force the AI right every time, but I'm simply not sure.

So there are really a number of ways to approach this one depending on your rope skill, I have 4 routes here.

The easiest method is extending all the way; you can get this basically every time. And actually, it's pretty reasonable, tends to clock in around 28 seconds (of turn time). I think it's about as efficient as the fling then extend method.

The medium difficulty one is the fling and then mexi, which is just slightly faster. I think with practice it's highly possible to get this around half the time.

The hardest is the Big Mexi; it basically saves a good 5-6 seconds, but can only be done, say 5-10% of the time, being optimistic. If someone is live streaming and doing a bunch of runs, this may not be worth attempting, but it's probably gotta be part of a solid World Record. Also, since it's the first mission, the speed run can easily be restarted until someone nabs it (unless we're including training first).

That damn skunk. I should've just gotten inside your worm to be 100% sure.

But an important note for releasing on the head: always consider whether the skunk will do a long walk across the head and be more likely to hit, or just immediately hop because it sees land in front of it (around either 20 or 50 pix away http://worms2d.info/Animal_Jumping).