- Pick the correct tower for the job. You may find a variety of towers fit to get through the level. Some setups will require more work from you than others. Just remember the game is designed so enemies will have certain counters. Mages work well against brigands and their lanes because they usually grow into physically armored dark knights. Ranger towers can poison through physical armor and stun high HP targets to allow for longer bursts of damage against them. You will need to choose a fourth level tower based on the skills required by the map. If there are many high HP enemies with heavy resistance to damage, musketeer garrisons and arcane towers can one-hit-KO them.
- Tower positioning is key. You want to place bombard towers at chokepoints, arrow towers where their increased range can cover lanes the furthest, barracks at strategic points which allow for multiple lane coverage or chokepoints, and mage towers at places which give their limited range the most benefit. Often you’ll have to make a choice which you can’t afford to change later. Selling towers doesn’t give you much gold back so I’ve always found it better to continue upgrading rather than sell a poorly positioned tower.
- Be willing to move your troops. The game is designed to be quite a handful. Some levels require as much concentration as you can muster to protect your lanes in order to get a perfect score. You will want to move your troops and there are several key points to remember. Make sure you place your troops in the middle of the lane or they won’t engage your foes. The troops can move into other lanes. Moving troops will stop them from blocking their current enemies. If those enemies are fast, they can run past your soldiers. Keep in mind you can move your hero too!
- A reminder when bosses freeze towers, you can use multiple fingers to tap. You can drum roll your fingers to tap on frozen towers. It’s kind of like the way you can use two fingers in paintball to pull the trigger faster. You may want to turn off multi-touch gesture controls on your iPad to prevent accidentally closing or leaving the app. This technique makes it extremely easy to unfreeze towers during boss battles. It’s better than a computer mouse! You can also get used to the idea of using multiple hands and fingers to better control the battlefield.
- Get all the stars unlocked before doing Veteran. It makes life so much easier. You can do earlier levels on veteran. I did a few of them on the channel. Levels beyond Vez’nan require all upgrades to be unlocked. You’ll see why later in the series I’m doing on YouTube. Maybe I could do it without the Reinforce upgrades, but I doubt it.
- Your meteors can create a damaging obstacle. The Meteor can create a bubbling pool of magma as it upgrades. This magma can be used to block fast, weak enemies from making it to their goal. It can really save your bacon. By cooking some. Are orcs made of ham? Bleh, never mind.
by Brian Petrilli AKA Jalinon