Anyone managed to beat it on first try?

[lily40k]

I have never seen a game be so intuitive and balanced.
The entire time i was a hair away from screwing up, always unsure if i will make it.

Mostly because i had no idea how you are supposed to damage the bosses, or the existance of the Inn. I was lucky to unlock it early.

https://imgur.com/a/D4DxLh1

I'm not sure why it shows #2, i guess the tutorial counts as one...

[Samseng Yik]

2nd map the only hard thing is the boss sudden huge difficulty increase.
Lakeburg you need better economy management than the 1st map (obviously), otherwise it is just a linear difficulty curve each night.
Recruit new hero at the right time help a lot.

ALT-F4 is a good move to save your real life time.
A mistake in night 12 that may cost you whole run (6 hours for me to reach Lakeburg night 12)
It definitely make me "less perfect player" than "true hardcore" player.
But I don't care how people think as I not harming anyone. I also aware this cannot fix every problem as a lose can accumulated by multiple nights imperfectness.

[Drakilian]

Have beaten the first three maps on the first try since the meta reset in this order: Gildenburg, Lakeburg apocalypse 1, Glenwald apocalypse 2. After that I could not beat elderlicht on apocalypse 3, in three attempts, though I'm very certain I could have done it without apocalypses active on my first try.

Before the meta reset I also beat every map on the first try, game was also much easier back then with more unbalanced stuff IMO though.

Refamiliarizing myself with the game by running the old maps before trying to get my first completions of the last two maps on apocalypse 6.

IMO the game is very easy without apocalypses active and you can basically S-rank every night without too much effort, but Elderlicht is a massive difficulty spike that stands completely incomparable to the other maps even without apocalypses active.

[Squid]

I could only handle the onslaught up to the 2nd boss. After that my village was flooded with mobs. I figure it's because I didn't have nearly as many unlocks starting out. Just how the game is. Next time will be better now I get more heroes to recruit.

[Revilar]

Beat the first haven on my first try. Second one I lost a unit early on so I just decided to reset rather then try without them.

[HeathenSW]

Originally posted by HeathenSW:

I've beaten the first map on the first try on clean save (just returned after a year or so), though it was sweaty. I didn't expect harpies to work like that at all and I almost lost two heroes, plus my walls were surrounded as all hell. The only way I won was because the last harpy spawned in the range of wand hero and near a melee hero with a sword and a move of 12 - his damage and accuracy sucked so all but 2 ap were spent on just clearing a path to that harpy and weirdly stepping 1 tile closer 1 tile farther to gain more momentum for the sword kill eventually. Another turn and I would've probably lost.

Lake map I'm at night 10 currently and it's very easy for some reason so far. I know that the boss is not dryads here since they were moved to the third map way back when, but I hope that new one will be beatable. Just got me a hero with insane poison damage which I capitalised on (druid staff's bee sting gives 127 poison damage now).

Yap, Lakeburg first try on apoc 1, but it was sweaty. Basically won due to parking my multihit knoife-spear hero near the boss and multihitted it to death every time.

Glenwald on apoc 2 was smooth up until the last night where it wrecked me hard. Not sure how you do this with no previous knowledge. Even Lakeburg was better. I suppose I really should have unlocked towers or teleportation. Also made a mistake of tryin blood magic perk on tome mage, since I was not aware that propogation can crit only one time per whole chain in terms of activating mana/health on crit perk.

[misobee]

I just cleared the first map on my first try, all 3 sides were in my haven and I was literally 1 turn away from losing but i managed to burst down the last boss with my magic user. All other waves felt extremely easy compared to the boss wave. Will have to see how the second map goes..

[Leiraion]

If you are new, beating even Gildenberg on your first attempt is quite good. Congratz

If you have high game knowledge you can clear your progress and then do:
Gildenburg --> Apoc 1 Lakeburg --> Apoc 2 Glenwald --> Apoc 3 Elderlicht --> Apoc 4 Glintfein

The A3 Elderlicht might be a little rough, but the A4 Glintfein will definitely be challenging..
I've only done it once and did succeed but it was tough!

[Donttouchmyhohos]

Originally posted by Samseng Yik:

I beat the 1st 2 maps within 1 go by starting from scratch.
LakeBurg boss caught me by surprise because I never seen it before.
So few times ALR-F4 and reposition a bit at day time , then beat it.

That is not a first time clear. That is save scumming and means you abused a system not meant to be abused.

[desaunay2]

Well I did.
My first playthrough I went from scratch to Glintfein Apocalypse 6 in 11 games (all won), so I gringed a bit cause the minimum is 7 games. But I never lost a run (or even lost a building, from what I remember). No save scum I didn't know Alt+F4 was a thing.
I did loose 2 or 3 heroes learning the classical mistakes : team kill with propagation, the charged-up laser in Elderlicht for example (behind a PILLAR!). By playing very carefully my turns I was never really in danger. I may need to play more games in apocalypse 6 though, but they take ages for me because I play very slowly. I can indeed spend 10 minutes just deciding how to play a turn a who's gonna move first, testing all the options.
Now I'm starting from scratch and I'm trying to go directly to Apocalypse 6 in 7 games. Currently at Glenwald Apo 2.
I would also be curious to try Apocalypse 1 with no meta using Bumc's file.