So my friend, Lunam, has problems using manthreads, but it's easy and hard at the same time for multiple reasons. With this guide I hope that I will be able show Lunam and anyone else who reads this some basic tips for this "Useful" weapon.

Mantreads have a unique set of stats in the game so far

• 75% reduce knockback from all damage
  
• 75% reduce airblast pushforce
  
• 200% air control while blast jumping (strafing turn speed)
  
• Deals Three times the fall damage on someone you land

Mantreads are a secondary that are meant to be used for pushing with uber because of the 75% reduced pushforce taken when equiping these boots. This weapon pairs up well with the trolldier loadout but also with a direct hit if you are pushing sentries due to pyros having harder time to airblast you back. Overall this weapon has some pros and cons which will be covered in the next section of the guide. If the option of whether to choose gunboats over mantreads for soldier, I would recommend gunboats due to the reduce blast damage for roaming, but mantreads are only useful for certain areas/maps.

Firsts things first, how do I get a "Man Tread"? You can either craft your own pair of manthreads or trade for a pair. It's HIGHLY recommended that you trade for a pair of this. You will end up crafting ONE REFINED when on trading standars it's barely worth a scrap. If you must, just go to tf2wh (for strange pairs) or scrap.tf and you'll be able to get one easily for the price of a scrap.
Now that you have it, "What is the point of Manthreads?" Mantreads are commonly used when you rocket jump or fall from a certain height and land on a player's head, usually ending up with a large ammount of damage done to the player; but there are more perks people ignore, mostly because there is no real difference to it. Mantreads has many pros and cons which can either be a good thing in the battle field or a horrible thing in general.

To start out, your manthreads will be used on the secondary slot of your loadout. This is usually combo'd with the rocket jumper and market gardener or any other melee of your choosing (I use mah secksy strange whip!) for reasons I'll explain later on in this guide.


The manthreads are used for specific reasons that make it stand out from normal booted weapons. I'll list out it's pro's and cons.
PROS:

-Mantreads can reduce the ammount of knockback from opposing forces without getting in the way of the the player's own Rocket Jumping. This includes:
• The scout's and their force of natures
  
• Explosives from Demomen or other opposing Soldiers
  
• Pyros and their weapons (Not sure about airblast yet)
  
• Sentries pushing you back by bullets (Best Option to do against that is to use battalions when attacking a sentry; but this is a guide for mantreads so let a uber medic deal with a sentry or take it down from a distance.)
  
• Increased air control while blast jumping
  
• Reduce knockback from airblasts
  
• ETC.
  
-If you were to land on a opposing player from a height that would cause you fall damage, you will deal THREE TIMES THE DAMAGE to the enemy. For example if you fall from a height that would cause you to take 30 damage and you land on the enemy, you will take no fall damage in return and deal 90 damage to them (30x3=90).

CONS:

• Manthread's and their knockback resistance can make it a lot easier for you to take damage from the things knocking you back (If a scout shot you at Point-Blank range with a Force of Nature and shoots you again, you will take even more damage because of you not flying so far back)
  
• You lose your useful seconday shotgun/trumpet and is used only for situational use.

Fun Fact
-Mantreads can have a strange part of buildings destoryied but they do no damage to them at all so add the part on it so you can have glitched mantreads before they patch it.
-Mantreads have a chance to only deal 30 damage upon landing ontop of a player
-Its still possible to take fall damage after landing on someone due to the source engine

Loadouts combos with mantreads: Be advise that some of these will contain a market gardener which can be replaced with any other melee weapon of your choosing.

Trolldier

• Rocket Jumper
  
• Mantreads
  
• Market Gardener

Baby Trolldier

• Liberty Launcher
  
• Mantreads
  
• Market Gardener

Take Damage Deal Damage

• Black Box
  
• Mantreads
  
• Market Gardener

The Pusher

• Direct hit
  
• Mantreads
  
• Disciplinary Action

Air Strike Combo

• Air Strike
  
• Mantreads
  
• Market Gardener

The Cannot aim/do any good jumps

• Beggar's
  
• Mantreads
  
• Equalizer

Before you use the mantreads as a main weapon, it's probably best if you try these maps out first to help you get accustomed to it:

Official Maps
• CTF_2fort
  -It's bridge is a good place to catch snipers off guard and anyone running for your base
  
• Gravelpit
  -A HUGE skybox with large, wide open areas (C point is the best to try out).
  
• KOTH_harvest
  -Another Huge skybox map with snipers looming around and unaware enemys with lots of health kits scattered around the map.
  
• PLR_Hightower
  -Huge Skybox, Giant tower in the middle of the map, unaware snipers, it's a mantreader's dream!
  
• MvM_bigrock (Please don't, use a buff banner and don't be a ♥♥♥♥ to your team >.<)
  
  Unofficial Maps
• KOTH_Trainsawlaser
  -Tons of saws with lots of places to hide from enemys and ambush them with a nice stomp to the head.
  
• Mariokart and it's 5,000 varriants
  -Most of these are All-Crit servers with low gravity turned on, use that to your advantage to take to the skys and stomp some heads!
  
• Any map with a high skybox
  -Results May Varry

The biggest thing I think needs to be warned about is a server mod (Plug-in) that will instakill anyone when you land on their head, this is a goomba stomp. The goomba stomp will block out mantread damage unless you put in a special code into chat or into your console:

Open the console and type this in the way I have it

• Server Chat: !goomba_toggle off OR /goomba_toggle off
  
• Console: goomba_toggle off

This will disable goomba stomp for you and will prevent others from goomba(ing?) you.
Some servers might prevent you from using that command, so if you want to mantread and can't leave that server and find another one on your server list.
-Just type the code again and replace the "off" with "On".

• goomba_toggle on

-The second biggest thing next to goomba stomping is: low gravity.
Low gravity can do three things that will either enhance your experience, or ruin it:

• Make you Rocket jump and Jump Higher
  
• Lower mantread fall damage
  
• Easy target for enemys (Especially Snipers in all Crit servers [Club Luna servers {Don't hate us for referencing a pony server please D:}])

Video of mantreads in action

• Five ways that can tell you land on someone
  
  
• 1. Your screen will shake from the force of landing on someone's head.
  
• 2. You will take no fall damage.
  
• 3. Hear a unique sound that can only be played by a sucessful manthread stomp.
  
• 4. On kill, you'll take some fall damage and see the kill icon of a boot landing on a head:
  
• 5. Sometimes you will take damage upon landing on a player due to how the source engine process when you crouch land. This means when you land while crouching and the model of the person you landed on disappears, the game thinks that you are still falling so it can either do one of two things. A. Reset your fall height or B. Fall damage is taken/You just die from fall damage.

Five Ways or Two To not get mantreaded

• 1. You'll hear the unique Rocket Jump Sound from the Rocket Jumper.
  
• 2. When you see the jumper try your best to shoot him out of the air.
  
• 3. Find Cover
  
• 4. Make Sure you have overheal from a local medic.
  
• 5. Either walks towards the jumper so their sweetspot for the market is smaller or just shoot them out of the sky(airblast, pipes, rockets or force a nature push force)

• Scouts
• Soldiers
• Pyros
• Demos
• Snipers
• Medics

Classes you should never go for
Heavies in general, unless you know you can kill them

Never go for engineers at all, unless you want a deathwish(since most engineers are around teammates, their buildings or just a pure f2p who does not know what to do. This is a reason why I recommend that you do not go after engineers.)
Gunslinger engineers are your biggest counter in which if you see one just change off trolldier and just go what ever you have set you as your soldier loadout before you came here to trolldier.

Since reading this guide, you now will understand how mantreads work, what they are used for, and to deal with people who try to mantread you.
If you got any questions, just ask one of us and we'll try to reply as soon as we can with our best answers.
Now go and kill people with your skill on mantreading or kill people who are trying to mantread you ether way one will work!
For A Guide about Mantreads on FF2 and Vsh, check out the soldier section in this:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=123154341