Civ Duel Zone - Defense Grid Strategy

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Originally Posted by ProPain (Post 130280)

Master strategist is a gold medal on all the challenges in the awakenings campaign, about 80 in total.

Ah, right...

Does that include the "poison core" missions? Those are really tough, IMHO. That damn core keeps killing aliens, which I need to get a high enough score for a gold medal (on one of the very first levels :( )...

@darkness: yes that includes the poison core missions. And I totally agree they can be quite a pain. Although the Out of Fuel Green Tower only gave me most trouble untill now.

Shabba:
- What mission are you stuck on?
- What towers do you use?

It's not that I get stuck, but I can't get high scores. The problem is the aliens that create either shields or stealth for the aliens around them. I can keep off the initial waves (cannons usually do the trick), but there's always a point where you get racers and shields. Maybe I'm not building enough temporal towers to maximize the effect of my cannons? Does that effect stack? Usually I'm building just two.

Also, I'm hardly building gun towers.

I rarely build cannons, I build heaps of guntowers.

Cannons can be good, but they are slow and can't hit up close. So when you build them, build em in your 2nd line.

Guntowers are really good, cheap so you can build a quick maze if you need to and they do a fair bit of damage. The key however is to upgrade, I try to get like 3 or 4 guns upgraded with a temporal tower close. Upgrade the temp tower at least once also. Double upgrade guntowers asap.

For air units missile towers are the way to go. Even a yellow missile tower will blast complete waves of air units to bits. I can't recall ever needing more than 1 red missile tower in any mission so far.

When missions have lots of little packed units like he swarmers I think upgraded inferno towers are good as well. Make sure you place a temporal tower close to your inferno tower for extra effect. All the grinders I played till now I just build inferno + temporal and upgraded. Maybe I built 1 or 2 guntowers for the first wave so I could build an extra tower in the maze, but after that: just inferno. Easily won them all. For later grinder missions the 'bombing tower' (concussion iirc) should work good as well.

I almost stopped using guns at one point, then I came across one mission where I was really short of cash but needed more damage quickly so kept building guntowers. I was amazed how effective massed guns were and I got through that mission after really struggling on previous ones.

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Originally Posted by Beorn (Post 130318)

It ranked me #82 on all-green fire control (the first with cannons: 2 meteors on the top-left island, 1 on the topmost's left corner, 1 inferno on the left of the strip strip, 2 temp+laser on top-right island and to the right of the strip, rest cannons).

I went for a similar approach on this map but had a really hard time getting gold medal. Could you tell me in what order you build em and on what positions exactly. I'd really like to reproduce what you did and see what happens when I do that.

I just got a no. 25 ranking on Focal Point grinder using almost exclusively inferno and meteor towers. :)