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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!