Hi Andy, thanks always for your help. I reply on the Vulcan part for you, may be slightly different: 1) Build roughly in this sequence, blasters, splash, then long range, then splash. Kill Mushrooms to get more energy with your blasters: 2) Build 2nd splash at lower left, upgrades, then move to the junction and start building at junction: 3) By wave 51, you should have full splashes at junction and laser at leftmost hill: 4) Start building some more long range (you can use blasters/splash if you like as well) at the top right area. Note splashes at bottom right is full and upgraded as well). Also dun forget to upgrade your laser before this... Happy Playing!
Good Morning Andy, guess you have gold on HARD for almost all? I did not have the following yet (didn't really play that much this few days, busy with Tiny Towers lol): B6: SOL C8: DRY ICE D4: ATRIUM E6: TEPHA'S FORK E7: BLACK SAND E8: RAVEN Edit: Sol/Dry Ice solved:
Can someone tell me how to beat the level called nailed? Ive tried placing splash towers all over he place,but thete seems to be no stopping to the squids and i keep losing on wave 46.if someone can atleast me how to survive with atlest 1 life left,please let me know
I Dug up a few pics, before i made step by step tuts, here is Atrium on hard , the setup. Maybe ill make a step by step if it does not work tho. http://oi56.tinypic.com/308foci.jpg http://oi55.tinypic.com/2ldgg9i.jpg
********************************C4 Slate******************************** Playing this map on Normal, always best to beat the game on easy, then go through normal and hard starting with all the towers. Also this should produce no losses. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) http://oi56.tinypic.com/10qxhf9.jpg Start by placing your first tower like this. as soon as the game start for the first 10 lvls you need to kill every mushroom you see during the battles. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) http://oi51.tinypic.com/vhqts.jpg during the first rd make a long shooter to the right of your first tower. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) http://oi52.tinypic.com/euet4x.jpg Now make a long shooter to the left of the first tower. you will notice im working on the mushrooms before and after the battles, chipping away at them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) http://oi52.tinypic.com/20f3t6o.jpg now add 1 more blaster to the row as shown. now from here upgrade them all to the max as you see fit, it wont matter in what order but I do kill all the mushrooms faster when upgrading the long towers first. by rd 11 all mushrooms in the vicinity should be gone. Now from lvl 10 -12 with all the towers upgraded to the max let it run, but pause before you start 13. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) http://oi55.tinypic.com/wh0jk0.jpg Now you should have 435 gems and game paused before 13 starts. build a laser tower as shown here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) http://oi53.tinypic.com/2s1vk75.jpg Now between 13-14 you will have enough gems to build 1 more laser tower, just build this one behind the first as shown -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) http://oi56.tinypic.com/21bm6gk.jpg During rd 14 it is crucial that you make another long shooter here and upgrade it. This is vital to no losses taken. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) http://oi55.tinypic.com/2rdi1j8.jpg rd 16 you should make 1 more long shooter here. and upgrade it once. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9) http://oi56.tinypic.com/20uwt2q.jpg During 17 as soon as you hit 375 gems, pause and upgrade the laser tower once. same for the back one, the next 375 pause and upgrade the back one as well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) http://oi52.tinypic.com/1ht4it.jpg Like this. now after that upgrade is done, just let it run to the end of the game. if you want to fill the achievements as in using the bomb or killing all the mushrooms, rd 20 is perfect for that. use all leftover gems to do that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11) http://oi55.tinypic.com/30de6b7.jpg All Done if done correct you should have no losses. Happy gaming. -Andy
thanks andy for c4 guide! works for me! now I need a guide to C6 GLAZIER. i've tried 9 times but still failed, huh
Hi Andy, Managed to get pass Atrium on hard. Inspired by your setup and getting the idea, i tried a different setup. Nearly all blasters except for 1 splash in the middle. Build and upgrade the bottom three first but half way start adding those at the top... Thanks again! Black Sand also solved, but I think this was on Normal. Should work on Hard as well. EDIT: BLACK SAND strategy above (3rd pic) does NOT work on Hard. Insufficient funds at start. Will explore other options and post again. Andy, any tips? I'd tried blasters (the cheapest) at the front, horizontal or vertical arrangements, mix with splash etc. Doesn't work, a few will sneak thru. I think the mushrooms/pools are the key?
The biggest threat on the top 2 waves are the Grizzlies, and they are spaced out far enough that Splash towers are not the most effective. Start with a few cheap Cannons, but work your way to getting Rockets to deal with them in the later stages. The bottom wave is mainly Spawns, so Splash towers will be the best against those.
I dug up some old pics for Black Sand on Hard, almost no losses. Doing a step by step would take forever on this level, so My photos should give you a guide on how I set up the towers. also This is for hard mode. http://oi56.tinypic.com/117bsw1.jpg http://oi55.tinypic.com/287emi0.jpg http://oi56.tinypic.com/25jjnea.jpg
Hi Andy, Thanks for your help, will try it later in the day. I can understand, step by step guide for this level will be hell (at 170 waves!) ... It's the combination of towers that I cannot get, so I think I will try your setup based on the pics, should be ok...
********************************D1 Apollo******************************** Playing this map on easy, You can tweak it just a bit for normal and Hard, and with no losses. This is my overkill map! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) http://oi56.tinypic.com/2dvq2j4.jpg Start by placing your first two towers like so, and pause after 195 gems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) http://oi52.tinypic.com/2yjwshe.jpg place your first smash towers here to start, then after your next set of gems pause and build one more to the left and 2 more to the right. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) http://oi54.tinypic.com/b6efj5.jpg Like this, now start upgrading all these to the max. and nothing else. after they are upgraded. accumulate 3000 gems and pause your game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) http://oi53.tinypic.com/24xj3gg.jpg now with 3000 gems, add 6 long towers upgraded to the max with 2 smash towers, one upgraded to the max, and upgrade the other as soon as it gets going. now let this setup run until the 5:40 mark , you should have 3200+ gems. pause your game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) http://oi53.tinypic.com/x3v6hl.jpg Now with 3200 gems , make 6 more smash towers and upgraded to the max, as shown. let this setup run until the 4.20 mark. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) http://oi51.tinypic.com/16lias6.jpg Now pause and build two fire towers to the bottom of the ridge, fully upgraded. let this setup run until the 1:40 mark and pause -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) http://oi54.tinypic.com/jkw3g1.jpg Now with 4100+ gems and game paused at the 1:40 mark, build this setup up top and upgrade as shown. this is the final setup, let it run until the end with you upgrading the last smash towers in between the rd. if you want some achievements, use your bomb at the 25 sec mark somewhere on the bottom. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) http://oi56.tinypic.com/2rdztc0.jpg all done and no losses. you can easily tweak this for normal and hard more with no losses. Have Fun -Andy-
E6 Tepha's Fork ********************************E6 Tepha's Fork******************************** Playing this map on Normal, You can tweak it just a bit for Hard. If done step by step you should get no losses. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) http://oi56.tinypic.com/11k8h1g.jpg Start by placing your first focus tower here, and quickly destroying all the surrounding mushrooms. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) http://oi53.tinypic.com/1zdrmte.jpg Now with some extra gems from removing the mushrooms. place a laser shooter right here. continue working on the surrounding mushrooms. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) http://oi54.tinypic.com/szjyap.jpg by rd 9 you should be adding your second focus tower. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) http://oi53.tinypic.com/9h0ymw.jpg Add another focus tower in rd 15 and start working on the big tree. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) http://oi52.tinypic.com/10numok.jpg again on rd 15 add one more focus tower as shown. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) http://oi54.tinypic.com/2cwnd5.jpg with the big tree rd 18 is crucial you start building as shown. three smash towers right under the focus tower. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) http://oi52.tinypic.com/15nvxy1.jpg rd 24 starts pause and add another focus tower and upgrade the smash towers once, work on the last tree. if your setup does not look like this, then restart, because it will be hard from here on. start working on that big tree. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) http://oi51.tinypic.com/35jmg4w.jpg rd 27 pause and add three smash towers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9) http://oi55.tinypic.com/vzhb4g.jpg at the start of 30 , pause and add another focus tower, and upgrade the 3 smash towers to the right. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) http://oi52.tinypic.com/2gvm35l.jpg Last focus tower for the final rd. you should have no losses after this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11) http://oi55.tinypic.com/2yl75tk.jpg Good Luck. -Andy-
I am coming around to hating this game and the people responsible for it. I just read Andy's walkthrough on Nailed here: http://global.com2us.com/forum/showthread.php?t=113954 And no offense, but that has to be the dumbest strategy I have ever seen for a tower defense game. The previous map Vulcan was the same way. I've played it off and on for a couple days to no avail, and then I see these guides and discover that my failure was attempting to devise some sort of actual strategy with a variety of towers placed in ideal positions around the map. What I should have done is _spam a bunch of fraking splash towers or fire towers or lasers_ in one or two spots. The fact that the developers would balance their game in such a way, as to later say "oops we guess hard mode isn't really passable afterall and will need to be revised on a level-by-level basis to make up for our negligence to actually playtest it. Our bad." should tell one all they need to know.
I have beaten the game without this strategy and just barely made it with 1 or 2 lives left, and that's on normal. what I try to do with all my guides is make it so there are no losses or as little as 1 life lost. In doing so the methods I use seem to be unconventional. Yes there are and you can find easier ways to beat this game on the internet, im just another guy trying to help some people out. I hope it worked for you; if you have anymore questions on levels please ask.
Raven on Hard...no lives lost... I used a similar method to get there and it worked out flawlessly! (after 3 days of ripping hair out). Best to ignore the skulls until everything down below is solid.
