Challenge is pretty easy to meet. Use ONLY Skeleton Archers, level them up as high as possible, dump extra souls into Control and Initial Mana for the most part (to get as large of a wave as possible as soon as possible)
Use Select All when you have 4 skeleton archers spawned and use them as your building busters. Let the last guy go on Auto and pick off civilians, as well as any respawns. Those you control move to buildings, picking off military as they come into range.
Once you have more units available, stick to the same ratio. 80% self controlled to focus buildings, and the rest on auto to clean up behind you.
Ignore the first Hero you earn, only use the second one and max her out quickly (Skeleton Archers should already be 10 by then anyway)
Make sure you get key 9 before you go after the sekrit relic. Otherwise you'll have to backtrack before you can face your ultimate annoyance puzzle/test.
I found that the Blue Temples were GREAT at first for high damage. But later the Ninja are the biggest issue. If the Blue is upgraded to freeze them 25% of the time, it helps. But the Red & Green when upgraded to AE damage or Balista work wonders, as they can hit the ninja even while invisible (as long as there is something else to cause them to fire). Blue shots do nothing after the first one hits (if no freeze), but Balista bolts will all land and each will damage the ninja (generally 2 are plenty to kill them, but 3 balista is a good idea to ensure at least 2 hit the ninja). Place a Red temple on High Ground for enhanced range and you can almost always clear the full wave of non-boss ninja without letting any beyond the Temple's range.
Drones sure are nice :) It is kinda corny that a single blaster placed in range of a creep source is enough to shut it down. Focus heavily on pushing toward a single source at a time, then withdraw all offensive items except that one blaster and work on the next source.
Read about the Grav Gun being so great on some posts, thought I would get one... Boy does it seem horrible. Slow travel, and doesn't actually do too much damage to an enemy who moves fast.
So I got myself 3 hirelings, all Merc or whatever (special is lobbing free grenades) thinking that with the free boom-booms and some Impact 3 Grav Guns they would keep the map clear for me. Even with Reload 20 on a pair of them, the shot rate was horrible.
Instead, I am trying a game now where me and all my hirelings are Hunters with Penetration maxed out. Our crossbows fly through EVERYTHING, and with a few fire rate enhancements (one being an AutoFire for myself), we keep the map clear easily.
Heck, I even popped Ragnarok on day 15, right after getting my own bow set up nicely. Dragons are the best targets since you hit them about 7 times each. Anyway, I cleared all but 5 of them before they even tried to fire at my castle :)
Sucks that it is down, but to continue discussion of decks, Firefly Queen in a Wind Deck is really nice, especially if you combine with Life and have some +1 life per creature bonuses going for you.
Also, an Earth Deck with Graboids is really nice. You can just make your element be Time and use only Earth Pillars since they need 1 time each to evolve. Kills the Level 1 & 2 Decks very fast, and stands up to most level 3 decks without any issue.
Actually I wish that more Elder decks had multiple rare cards. The more of the card they have the more likely you are to gain that card at the end of battle (the spinners are the opponent's deck). Still trying to get a dang Eternity...
Level 8 the AI builds a single tower on the chokepoint node and I can't get units out fast enough to punch through his units and tower and hit him, but he can't get through my towers and units either. Absolute stalemate, even though I now have 12 towers and 500 population. Need a way to destroy their towers.
Trial 5 was a bit of a letdown. All the goblins and bombs made me expect a giant "castle-O-Doom" like the first 2 had when I crushed them. Instead it all just crumbled before my forces without so much as a whimper of protest :( 4 was better with a surprise double-dragon near the end of the castle's life.
But, good dang game :)
VIII with only 3 Extenders :) I rather liked watching this one :)
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How do you win, OR lose? I was attacked tons of times at my home city and retreated or lost many of them. Then I attacked their city and won, all I got was tons of resources and kept playing.
Would be a good move to make there be a slight delay in starting to fire with the gattling gun after you click the mouse. Otherwise you just rapidly click like as if you were using the pistol and you never have any heat buildup.
For mission 6 I found that top level Missiles were the most effective, killed many motherships before they could get in range. Then scatter a couple of Pulse Lasers to handle the fighters and distract the main fire.
It would be VERY helpful for the last battle to have units display even just the icon for their damage types in the infobox. I had thought that a normal angel was a good idea, but they are also healing him.
Possible bug: I was fighting the final boss and the fight was taking forever, but I never let him move from where his castle used to be. Nothing had EVER gotten to my castle, but after I got him down to about 20 tons of life (from 32), I noticed my castle was halfway dead. Before I could get him completely dead (but well after getting him under 10 tons of life), I lost due to my castle being destroyed.
Is his attack possible hitting the entire map and other people exagerate about how long they are in the fight, or is there a bug when he is on the edge of the map which makes him also hit your castle?
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