Mission 12

[Redmacinton]

Not sure if its just me, but i find this one rather hard than the others. I made the mistake by rushing and got stomped by elite heroes in just 20min with only lvl 3 units.

[Daisan]

God do not get it wrong that mission is brutal. I got through it by connecting all the dungeon entrances to one tunnel so that heroes had to walk a long ways to reach the dungeon heart. That way I only had to put traps in one stretch and all the heroes would go through it. On top of that I used solely demons and they work crazy well

[Anon Thunderchad]

Yeah, this one is really difficult on hard.

[Merluca Kitsokami]

Yea this mission is quite hard, espacily if you accidently walk into thanos, he can oneshot like half your army, you get endlessly rushed by waves of heroes, and if you wanna do the achievments you are on quite the timer

[Mathio]

any tips to get achievements and perk? Tanos is too strong.

[Retriks]

Originally posted by Mathio:

any tips to get achievements and perk? Tanos is too strong.

pick the cheap skills perk (evilness reduction) and use gorgu to kill and interrupt tanos. it's the easiest way but you have to time when to summon him.

[Daisan]

Originally posted by Mathio:

any tips to get achievements and perk? Tanos is too strong.

Try and destroy the towns and keep them destroyed. Once you see a good being appear (frog and unicorn) drop what you're doing and go kill them. They do respawn a few times but they'll eventually stop so just keep killing them once they show up so Tanos doesn't get a chance. With the towns destroyed Tanos won't have a good way to get his numbers up. I learned that having a lot of gazers and some imps with the armor reduction helps a lot in burning down those stronger heroes.

Above all avoid Tanos at all costs. If he comes to a town you're already destroying then just leave. He won't get a lot of evilness from it, but if he manages to hit your army you could lose a lot of units in one swoop.

[236403mo]

You can drop Gorgu at Thanos when he's walking near good being and then have Gorgu kill the being for you as well. Two birds with one stone.

[nvz]

After a while the good beings will stop respawning and most of the towns will be destroyed. Once this happens Tanos is extremely bad at intercepting deliveries and building crews, which will be the only source of evilness. If you can deny the good beings he'll never get over 1-2k evilness by the time you win. The town in the bottom left is a good one to grab some early evilness for your research, and you can time your push with when Tanos starts destroying his first town. Tanos will path to that bottom left town as his second target, so stealing it while he's busy on the first causes him to waste a ton of time doing nothing.

Also, you might want to do a scouting run where you work out where all the easily accessible gold/diamond veins are in your dungeon and then reset so that you can get those immediately. You get so much evilness in this map that you end up running out of gold trying to research stuff, so it helps to have your snots start setting these up while your army kills the first couple of towns. You might also find some pleasant help while you're digging around!

[-Drezz-]

Perks I used: More EXP for Thalya. 50% off Thalya's Spells. 50% More Trap Damage.

I got traps up ASAP and started by mining the larger gold vein just west of the dungeon heart. Do NOT mine into the spider network on the far west. It's not worth clearing out. Have some goo + wall saw traps along the entrance halls and at least one hamster wheel trap for each. Keep upgrading them when you can (they'll get more damage), along with whatever else you need. Try not to let Thalya or your demons get EXP capped. You can also spam slaps on tortured heroes instead of waiting for demons to kill them.

Basically you'll need to be farming the overworld almost constantly and beating Tanos to his targets when you can but it's fine to use Thalya's teleport to go back and defend the dungeon. Putting a portal down near the center of the map helps a lot with getting the Good Creatures and caravans. Summon Gorgu as much as you can but only to kill Good Creatures or stall Tanos by killing him.

There's also a diamond vein in the top left of the dungeon but it's guarded by a lot of magma spawn champs so make sure your army is ready.

[Flufficuss]

You can also use the Meteor Shower spell to absolutely kill confirm Tanos on the regular as well. If he starts on a good being and there's no way you can even possibly deal with him, just hard camp watching the fight. The minute it hits the meteor threshold-or even better, upgraded meteor's 450 damage threshold-whack it with a meteor shower. Ya steal the evilness, ya keep the achievement, and you don't have to sacrifice your whole army to Tanos being...Tanos.

[Mike.Messiah]

I too was facing difficulty in getting the Demonic Resurrections Perk in Mission 12. Then i read the details and i realised the perk isn't worth getting. The only map where this is useful over others, is in this map itself. Lul. So unlock the perk on Easy, and then play this mission on Hard with the Demonic Resurrections Perk

[intenselygoodtime]

I was doing "all of the above", reloading saves like a madman, leaning so hard into perfecting my Demon-manufacturing strategy...

...and then I stumbled into the face-palm "Gorgu strategy" above.
RUSH GORGU.
Only cast Gorgu when dudebro is alive on the map, and then send Gorgu to finish off whatever Good Creature or spawner is nearest to him.

This means (counter-intuitively) you rush THALYA, and then switch all efforts to your Demon Army. ...and as always, one of the first things you do with multiple Hero tunnels is ALWAYS dig them around into a single tunnel. Dig from both ends and the middle, then seal up the extra holes.

THEN do every single thing listed above. You still need to keep a bunch of saves.