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# Random events

Events that may fire partway through a battle on a handful of Random Battle maps, changing the ground they strike for the rest of it.

Also known as random event, map with random events, maps with random events.

An airship comes down over a square, a bombing run flattens a block, a train derails along its [track](/glossary/tracks.md). They are a chance rather than a fixture: two [battles](/glossary/battles.md) on the same map can play out with and without one, which is why the game says an event might occur here. The area is marked before it happens, with smoke on the map and an outline on the [minimap](/glossary/minimap.md), and a vehicle caught inside when the event lands can be destroyed by it. Once it has passed, that patch of the map is different for the rest of the battle: rubble closes a route, an aircraft carcass becomes hard cover, a collapsed wall opens a line that was not there at the start.

Only some maps carry them, and a map that does can carry more than one. They are optional: the Game tab of the settings has a switch that keeps you out of the [matchmaker](/glossary/matchmaking.md)'s random-event maps altogether.

They matter to a plan more than their size suggests, precisely because they are uncertain. A position that holds early is not the same position once an event has landed, and a route a push depends on can close while it is under way, so the ground worth committing to is the ground that survives either way.

## See it on the site

[Every map](/maps.md)[This map](/eu/maps/himmelsdorf.md)

## Related terms

[Random BattlesThe main queue: fifteen against fifteen, teams assembled by the matchmaker, on a rotating pool of maps.](/glossary/random-battles.md)[MinimapThe overhead map in the corner of the screen, which shows spotted enemies, last known positions and where the team actually is.](/glossary/minimap.md)[Hull downSitting behind a rise so only the turret is exposed, using gun depression to shoot over it while the hull stays protected.](/glossary/hull-down.md)

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