veteran first try

[death2all]

i was expecting it to be harder, just not that hard. 1st wave is like 250 with the AOE shooter

[Silberfuchs]

I failed miserably two times on normal, then said "f-it" and picked veteran.
I just finished that playthru with a nice victory screen...
... and started a game on the difficulty above that.

Lets put it this way: the difficulty increase from normal to veteran was tame in comparison.

[death2all]

yeah i can imagine, just gotta adjust a bit, clearly too slow on the unit building, i thought 25 would be enough. boy was i wrong

[Silberfuchs]

The easiest way to survive early on is to get ballista towers.

- Build 1-2 lumber mills
- Build a few houses + food huts
- Build a quarry (for some stone)
- Build the wood workshop
- Research braced towers and ballista towers
- Clear the area around your main building in all directions til you find anything that resembles a choke point
- Build a few walls and 1-3 Ballista towers AFTER you know where the death night wave will attack from*

*: what usualyl works is to take a swordsman, put him next to your main building, and send him to the revealed crystal (your units usually path the same way the attacking wave do).
Obviously the swordsman can turn back after you have seen the way he will leave your base.

The 3rd death night (and those after) will include some tankier enemies, try to have archers or even better arbalests in towers ready for them.

[death2all]

yeah, for normal i never used ballista towers, just units until day 15, dont think it will work on veteran

[i-am-noob]

Started on normal when bought the game ... went to easy to learn better, finished Veteran last night ... finished Horrific tonight (thanks to a bug tho) ... think I'm done with this game for a while He he

[Homuya]

The game is easy. I nearly finished it on my first try, I only lost cause I was experimenting and that was on veteran.

Its really not that difficult, the only bothersome thing is that it lacks some basic RTS controls like you cant always see where your units are unless you hotkey them...

[Grif2501]

The 3rd death night is my limit so far. Really good so far.

[death2all]

love how i say i struggle with something and you can gaurentee someone will pipe up and say " its easy"

[Deek Deek Marziperk]

I just try to get the farm first, then the ballistas. Those walls are a big important thing too. The Sentinels make a really good defensive unit in case the walls are breached....for about 30 seconds to a minute on Veteran if you lack the numbers on the 3rd death day and barely surviving it by manually using your Arbelists and Archers to attack and bait the enemy......Safe to say I am done for the night. Hope I win tomorrow.

[death2all]

thankfully i passed 3rd deathnight tonight, used one of my limited saves and continue tomorrow. numbers scare me though. 4k on day 15...