Fun!

[CaptainMouse64]

This is a pretty good game! It's tough for me though!

I never seem to get any large gold deposits!

The bubble gun and laser are powerful when upgraded!

[mcast12]

Yeah this is a good one. I just can't beat 69 though, so frustrating.

5 cannon turrets in the center will get you to 68 no problems, then it's just insane. I think replacing them with missles towers is the way to go.

[DancinPhil]

Can someone offer up some advice for starting out on Normal mode?

Starting with only 20 gold I just can't get seem to get my footing. If I just use one bullet tower and upgrade it I can survive but only until I run out of resources... I just never seem to have enough gold. I have to choose between digging to survive or having enough fire power to survive. I really just need some help staying alive long enough to generate an income of resources. I don't think I've survived past level 10 yet...and I'm usually dead once the fliers come out because I can't afford to put up/upgrade a ship turret.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

Well I was able to solidify my strategy a bit... I just had to take some losses in the early stages, maybe 10-15 creeps get through while I try to strengthen my defense. Then I was able to cruise from like 20-60 with 2-3 cannons and my initial bullet/ship turrets (2 of each). I added a missle turret in the later stages which just obliterated the creeps up until about stage 62-63. That's when it got really tough...I concentrated my defense around the loops so that all towers would get two passes to shoot at the creeps, but at that high a level they were still getting by and then I was wide open.

Do you recommond spreading out my defenses more evenly?

Is there a certain combination of turrets that work best? /Ones to completely avoid and save money on?

I experimented with the Freeze turret and it just seemed to be a wasted investment. It does relatively weak damage compared to a cannon/missle turret, and only freezes the creeps sometimes... I feel like a bubble turret would work better as slowing them down 100% of the time would be more effective than the few sparse 1-2 second stops that you get from the freeze.

[mcast12]

I can win it every time now on normal.

1-5 Start with 2 of the ground towers in the middle at the bridge, just upgrade them. Build one research building

6-8 Build 2 air towers near the middle, upgrade them a bit

9-20 - replace the 2 air towers with 2 cannon towers and upgrade them. Start trying to find some gold and power fields. Build 2-3 research

21-50 replace the 2 ground towers with 2 bubble towers. 2 cannon and 2 bubble will take you to 50 easy. Make sure you research anti-regen. Lasers are a waste of time.

51-69 replace the 2 cannon with 3 freeze and build 1 or 2 rocket towers to attack any tiles (don't upgrade). You should have at least 10 research, all gold and as many power as you need.

70 - you should have either 4-5 freeze (or 2 bubble/3 freeze) and a 1/2 rocket towers to kill the tiles. If the boss mobs pass over a regen tile, it's game over, you can't win, just restart.

[ScruffTheGruff]

arrr i agree my mateys the game be fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[andrewy]

The free version available online plays with a small range of towers, resources and upgrades. With 2 playing modes, easy, which has 20 levels and normal with 25 levels shows what the game is all about and is a good test of strategy skill. Normal mode is quite hard and you really do have to think about the best way to survive all 25 levels.

Being in real time play, you do have to make sure you have the resources available to defeat wave after wave of creeps and build research facilities so you can mine the natural resources. There is no guarantee that where you mine much needed resources will be found and it's a good twist to the game to place these randomly throughout the game map. Where they are in one game doesn't necessarily mean they will be there on the next attempt.

Didn`t anyone tried the full version of this game? the game look good