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to win game: grab demons, and just let the spearmen run. upgrade only spears and armor. attack the highest difficulty zone until you get to 50% or so, then open up whatever you don't have access to on the map (most difficult fight was at 65%, this way, the others were in the low 20s). and, of course, if your spearmen line starts getting crushed send in a few (3) swordsmen to help, then switch back
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A good strategy is to use just spearman and change lanes every summon. Just go down the line, and back up. It's extremely adaptive, and the computer doesn't seem to defend against that very well letting many of your spearman past. It worked for me against an 89% difficulty battle.
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The "One Lane" strategy is flawed. If/when your opponent crushes your line with beefed up swordsman, flails, royal guard or whatever, he gets a charge from killing so many dudes at once.
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A little more info about how "charge" is enabled would be nice. It's silly when the oppenent charges 4 times when i only charge once.
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I chose Mountain Trolls, saved up enough for the Huge Troll unit, and then pushed spearmen until my Q was ready and then threw a line of Trolls at them.... it seems to work
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quick badge: i went with orcs of the south. Only summon the basic spearmen. Buy extra armor at all opportunities. Send spearmen in 1 single file, dont spread them.
Important: choose the most difficult map at all times. If you take the easy maps first, the hard maps will go to max: 105% difficulty. If you do the hardest ones first, they will only be about 60%-ish.
so gogo armored basic spearmen pushing 1 lane on hardest maps. Autosummon in options, but dont AFK-play as the autosummon stops when q is charged. So watch the screen and spam q whenever.
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undead start with -3 archers and +3 halberds...so i win easily by auto-sending halberdiers. note: "difficulty" increases everwhere each round, which means enemies will have upgraded units-so don't try to always pick the easiest, because the hard ones will become too hard! pick easy ones till you get a few good upgrades (like +10 armor), then go after the hard ones before they get too hard.
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I was doing fine until somebody started talking to me and I discovered that there is no mid battle pause.
If I can't ADHD play this game, I don't want to play it.
Other than that it's fine.
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I don´t know about the other races but you can conquer the entire map playing undead and using spearman only. Spend all money upgrading armor and the spearmens atk dmg, spawn them (hold spacebar) in one "lane" only and ignore all enemy units that pass over to your side. Boring yes but it gets it done (you can put something on the spacebar holding it down during every battle and go do something useful meanwhile). Only on 1 occasion towards the end of the campain i got some trouble. The enemy countered with many strong swordsmen in the same lane and killed off my spearmen a bit too fast. I just started spawning them in another lane then, letting the enemy units through.
The difficulty percentage has little to do with the difficulty. Last area i conquered was "difficulty 100%" and i´m not exaggerating when i say it was one of the easiest of all.
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q button stopped working half way through campaign, fine but also means auto send dosn't work once charge is built up! reloading hasn't helped.
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It's amazing how crap-tacular this game is. I mean seriously, as of the second level, they have mounts, and all i got from the first level is 100 gold? WTH am i even supposed to upgrade with that? Not to mention upgrades i CAN afford, for units i don't have/CAN'T afford.... The shop was not well thought out, nor the difficulty progression.
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@easterwave: I noticed that too, I'm thinking probably cause when you surrender you go and buy an upgrade. Then when you fight again, it becomes easier and you kill less people = less money haha
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Does anyone else have problem with wasd keys control? I can only use arrow keys and I am not able to use Q either! Does anyone know how to fix this?
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The suggestion to surrender in order to keep the money is fine, but it looks to me like you get less the more often you surrender. That's not fair! ;)
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Apparently the strategy guide has been taken down from the official site, you can access the archive here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090216094519/http://benoldinggames.co.uk/wl.asp?SiteID=10&PageID=332&SectionID=0
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Grinding for money on low levels: high difficulty levels do not give enough money, kills and money are faster on low levels. (Did not measure, played mindlessly.)