Who is the Best Strategist on This Forum?

[MightyTiny]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Got up to 5893 but I still can't get both flying bosses. This time I had 5 typhoon towers all in the middle and three air-5 towers (air-5 being superior, as air-max is 2x as expensive for only 50% more power)... one died and one was nearly unscathed. I think some of the mazes i've seen which split up the typhoon towers might be more likely to succeed...

In practice, a few fully upgraded swarm towers are MUCH more effective than a bunch of swarm towers upgraded one away from the max.

Essentially you need two fully upgraded swarm towers in the midle of the board (don't need to be separated by much), some typhoon towers maybe, and the flying bosses are toast.

Check out my highest scoring maze for an example that'll do the trick.

[Ecthy]

Yeah I always have somew top group of 2 or 3 that get total priority in upgrading before having the others follow. The high cost of upgrading to the max level means this requires descipline in spending. Swarm towers? I never build them, maxed out typhoons have to be enough. If I do put swarm towers, it'll be just 2 of them, but maxing them out costs A LOT.

[Meticulous Man]

It's a new day...
6578

[Ecthy]

6336, this time without losses in lives. had 8 typhoons in 2 diagonals in the center plus one swarm tower on level 5. There was just not the money to upgrade this one to max level before boss 49 but they got killed anyway.

[Ecthy]

Now scoring higher just means calling in new waves earlier. Did it quite a few times, especially those 2*normal+immune or something triple waves. Don't they get killed off.

[Ecthy]

Fvck, this time one of the flyingbosses survived with 2400 health only... that's just 1 second under fire

Anyway, 6439, ranking 200,00-odd

[MikeH]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Do you never upgrade your pellets? They turn into nice Sniper towers though with a slower firing rate.

No, never, it seems like a bit of a waste of money. They have great range but really slow firing. The dart towers are better value, good range and massive splash damage.

[MikeH]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
MikeH already pwned me. I bow to his skill...

More like hours of practice after getting addicted. Love this game.

[Lazerus]

4400 on first go... i built my original air towers too far north and lost too many lives

[MikeH]

Don't underestimate dart towers. Early on in the game you can send several groups together and one dart tower can kill whole groups with one shot (which makes a great sound). Plus they are very cheap and have a decent range. It helps your bonus loads if you can send 3 or 4 groups together early on in the game (if you rush 3 groups it's 150 bonus).

[Lazerus]

Ah so thats how you get extra points, i completed the lvl 50 with 17 lives left and only had 5265 on my 2nd attempt and was curious how the heck you score more

[MikeH]

7300

[Ecthy]

Yeah, but dart towers lose all value later in the game as even when they're maxed they don't do much damage. Unless you build like 3 of them but then you lack money for the typhoons and thus need to build more air defense. Careful with the diversificacion, it's a dead end. Better get 8 typhoons with heavy prioritizing of the upgrading on the way through, and then short before the end put up one air defense swarm tower building it up as far as possible. it's weird, in one game I lacked money to max it out, in the next it wasn't a problem. Same amount of typhoons.

[MikeH]

My 7300 says I'm right.

[MikeH]

If you send 3 or 4 groups at a time, which is the only way to get a really good score, then your creeps bunch up in massive groups your ICBM tower is doing 256 damage to, say, 20 creeps at a time, probably more because it's splash is massive. The Typhoon does 320 and fires fast, but it's splash is tiny in comparison and it's range is pathetic. Plus ICBMs they are cheaper than typhoons.

For air defence, 1 centrally placed swarm will be all you need to cope with all the air traffic coming in up until the bosses just upgrade it before each wave. For the air bosses at the end you should rush another central swarm during the last 5 levels, at that point you have all the ground attack damage you need and are probably gaining money faster than you can spend it anyway.