Given how incredibly important resistance to status effects is, it's sort of annoying that even the best legendary set only gives immunity to two status effects.
The bow is far superior to the sword. Max critical and double bow strike as quickly as possible, acquire the Baron's Bow as soon as you can. You'll slice through the whole game like butter even at 5x difficulty.
hint for badge hunters: 1) upgrade hero's attack to max, and boost his leadership; 2) you don't need archer towers--do not build them and put no points into them; 3) don't bother with hero's stun ability, you don't need it; 3=4) don't worry if you can't get 3 stars on some levels at first--just march forward through the next levels and get upgrade points, then come back. With hero attack and leadership maxed as well as your swordsmen, mage and cannon towers, you should be all set.
Good game! A lot of fun. Agree with others that melee should be a little more powerful, and magic a little less so. Not that it matters that much, but I replaced the bomb with another spell and now I can't get the bomb back?
could use some help beating Brutus. Level 49, but nowhere close to being to take him on when he gets to low health. Anyone who can help please message me...
Badge hunters: this is actually a decent game for how old it is, if you give it a chance. Odd difficulty curve: 4th boss far harder than last one. If you get stuck, just replay a level several times without buying soldiers to gain resources to upgrade. If you still can't beat 4th boss, just hire one engineer, wait until wave 1 has only one archer left, then wait out the battle. Should be a breeze.
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