Is it even possible to solo?

[Janis Paegle]

I have been playing this but it seems only way to play is coop, for solo - traps are just ♥♥♥♥, orcs can brake baricades so i cannot crowd controll! Anyone has finished it solo w/o replaying every round countless times for sculls?

[HpBlazer]

You can easily farm 15 skulls every 4 minutes by doing The Edge on Nightmare difficulty without getting hit, or using mana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUtNnkiwb2c

It is possible to solo things quite easily, you just need some know how about the traps and game mechanics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjS6e9Xwd10

A good trap combo I like for war mage is Tar Trap and swinging mace, its a real killer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8bDEoBnVoc

Also, add me, lets play sometime :)

[Grey Star, The Rival Defender]

Very much so. It just takes quite a bit of patience and knowlodge. And good traps.

[Blazer Wifle]

i did every difficult solo

[Wolf_Hastenichgesehn]

You could even 5-skull the hardest map:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4NM9LWk_U

[Xray]

got 5 skulls on every map on nightmare, so yeah its possible

[SabinKenobi]

You don't even need to use traps if you don't want to. Totally doable solo without them.

https://youtu.be/KX4UiUEBnSc?list=PLkeVrGqpLN-HMslBslotxvBCW2k3-KLqu

Whole Playlist of every level without traps:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkeVrGqpLN-HMslBslotxvBCW2k3-KLqu

[Estellese]

Not sure how far you are, but I have started a solo run without replaying any levels (Unless I lost) and have done nothing but the story missions in order. I have so far beaten everything up to (and including) Crunch. And while I will say, crunch was hard and it was the first level I had atctual difficulty completing, it was beatable. I just needed to stop and think of a new strategy because the "death room" strategy I had been using was not working. So if you are having difficulty, stop what you're doing and try something completely different. I went from making a "Death room" at every entrance, basically a spot with as many overlapped damage and slowing traps as possible, to using lots of springboards to use the enviroment, to placing no damage traps for the first several waves and instead making a big swirly of barricades right next to the goal and killing the orcs manyally as they ran around the swirly shape. (And adding damage traps to the swirly much later). Try different things, see what works.


Also, stop using barricades to block their path. Use them only to guide the orcs path. They won't break the barricades if they can walk around them even if walking around makes them take a massive detour. (Except for the bomb carrying rats. But the game warns you when those are coming so you can get in position to protect your barricades. They die in 1 shot.)

[Gustuv Wynd]

I've never even done co-op. There are some endless maps I haven't five skulled yet, but I've five skulled everything else I think.


If the orcs are eating your baricades you might not be leaving a path for them. They can still damage them if they are attacking you, but they shouldn't purposely damage the baricade...save for sappers, but a few lava traps infront of the baricade and they are pretty much safe.

You should always use the environment when you can, as well. I often don't even set up damage dealing traps save for a couple grinders to catch kobolds.