Favorite builds?

[Prustan]

My favorite so far is my latest winning one.
Royal Tower/2 Chest/3 Thief/5 Milk/5 Cat/4 Glass/4 Builder/2 Princess/3 Cow/5 Guardian.

This particular build was only possible because I drew the duck (+7 gold per turn) from the first boss and got fairly lucky with tower spawns. Future growth was promising to scale pretty well with the Parmasen pickup from the second boss.

[Drachnon]

Royal - Butler -Princess
That's basically all you need :P

[pushinruslan]

It's like we're playing different games =)
The only reliable build I have is Mosquito + forge/honey/butler. Everything else is too slow/rare to overcome 1st boss. Without mosquitos cat-milk is decent but requires thieves to beat boss-1

[I'm proud of you, son]

Originally posted by pushinruslan:

It's like we're playing different games =)
The only reliable build I have is Mosquito + forge/honey/butler. Everything else is too slow/rare to overcome 1st boss. Without mosquitos cat-milk is decent but requires thieves to beat boss-1

The trick to Milk/Cat is to go Milk/Milk/Cat. Throw down a Guardian and/or Glass on the far right and Cat will carry you through the demo.

When you get really good at it you can start to see when to make an adjustment. I've won with Milk/Cat/Cat, and Milk/Cat though these are harder. If you can get good RNG early you can do Milk/Milk/Cat/Cat and that'll breeze through everything else.

Coffee is also very good to throw down if you don't get Parmesan or Cow. Coffee gets so many stats from the double Milk that it'll eventually just take down the second boss entirely or close to it.

[pushinruslan]

The trick to Milk/Cat is to go Milk/Milk/Cat. Throw down a Guardian and/or Glass on the far right and Cat will carry you through the demo.

Yeah kinda missed that one cat can get more than one milk/turn
milk/milk/cat is also stable build currently
Still it's a pity that 1st boss is so strong a lot of alternate builds would be viable if not for him

[I'm proud of you, son]

Originally posted by pushinruslan:

The trick to Milk/Cat is to go Milk/Milk/Cat. Throw down a Guardian and/or Glass on the far right and Cat will carry you through the demo.

Yeah kinda missed that one cat can get more than one milk/turn
milk/milk/cat is also stable build currently
Still it's a pity that 1st boss is so strong a lot of alternate builds would be viable if not for him

That's not really true. There are 4-5 towers that you can throw down and easily beat the first boss. Hell if you have a difficult strat (focused on an uncommon tower like dice tower) you can literally just throw down glass/mosquito/guardian and that right there is like 50-60 health off the boss.

The first boss is literally just "do you have 100 damage on the board" and with 9 slots (+Royal) it's not that hard. Level 2 Glass gets to around 22 by the boss wave. Guardian level 2 adds 2/2 to all your towers, so that's 16 or 18 right there. Mosquito at level 3 hits the boss 4 times, with Guardian's boost that's 5x4 for 20 damage minimum right there.

The first boss is very well designed. If you have a field that dies to it (and trust me, I've had a lot) then it would never have won past the first boss anyways.

[Millimidget]

I've beaten the demo using seven different scaling methods so far, described below. To describe tower placement, I'll number the tower slots left to right from 1-10 (ie Royal Tower is in Slot 1).

Milk/Cat
I really struggled with Milk/Cat, trying various combinations until I found that Guardian Tower in Slot 10 bought enough time for Cat to scale.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3174423721

Obsidian/Guardian
This is a really straight forward build, stacking Guardian Towers to permanently buff Obsidian Tower.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3174423698

Build-A-Bear
This build requires 5-6 removal tokens. Build a Level 3 Iron Tower, then feed it to your Bears using a removal token. More Bears are better, as you can start feeding your highest attack power Bear to the others, while Slime Towers can augment your removal tokens.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3175041822

Honey Forge
While I've managed to win with Flower, I've never managed to do so without Forge. There are several towers which work well with the Honey + Forge combination, including Bear, Flower and even Mosquito, pictured below.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3175033247

Dice Roll
Dice Towers can go tall or wide. Tall builds synergize better with strong eco or other towers. Wide builds work best if you can get an early Princess.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3175041834

Snake Eyes
This build utilizes a tall Dice build to protect itself while filling out the board with Snake Towers. However, the animal guide boss reward was probably the difference between clearing and not clearing the second boss.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3175033257

Dragon Force
This build opened with Royal, Chest, Thief and a Guardian in Slot 10. In Round 2, I picked up both a Dice Tower and an Egg Tower. While Dragon Tower damage doesn't scale well, Dragon production scales quite well, and by my estimate the dragons would have just barely beaten the Round 20 boss.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3174423774

The Butler Did It
It took me a bit to get a working Butler start, but it can be quite effective. Royal, Butler, Princess is a strong combo, and can be augmented with 1-2 Glass Towers and by using removal tokens to remove Level 3 Iron Towers.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3174423739

Hydration
This might be the simplest build in the demo. Start with Royal, empty, Hydra, then keep filling Hydras out from Slots 4-10. Once Slots 3-10 are filled, level Slots 3 and 4 to Level 2; this reduces the cost of Hydras to 0. Next, focus on leveling the Hydra in Slot 3 to Level 6, then repeat this process moving left to right from Slots 4-10. Finally, pick up a Witch Tower as soon as possible, then roll for Frog Potions.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3174423759

However, my favorite build is probably a mashup of the Honey/Forge build and the Dice/Horse/Clover build. The final build was Royal, Chest, Horse, Clover, Bee, Dice, Bear, Dragon, Flower, Honey. This required picking up removal tokens when the Royal Tower leveled up, to remove an early Dynamite Tower and replace it with Honey, to remove the early Forge and replace it with Dice, and to remove the second Bee Tower and replace it with the Clover.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3174423630

[Kulka46]

guys do not be decived the best tower combo is bear bear and even more bears
here is the strat
you get iron turret lvl 3 so it gets +75 HP
then grab as many bears as you can once you cant handle enemy waves delete iron turret
all bears recive its stats
then its simple just grab more bears (IMPORTANT DO NOT UPGRADE EXISTING ONES)
and start removing bear towers with highest stats other bear turrets will recive its stats
with this strat you basically double your bear turrets stats with each bear removal
here is what achived with a bad run with this strat
https://imgur.com/a/T3GML75

[Drachnon]

Originally posted by Millimidget:

Dice Roll
I see that others question whether it is possible to assemble enough Dice Towers to win. I've done it with several variations, and it doesn't seem too difficult to pull off. My preferred build is Royal, Chest, Thief, Chest, Thief, Chest, Thief, Dice, Iron, Guardian, eating Iron Towers with removal tokens in order to buff the health of other towers.

I almost had an identical build except a Butler instead of Iron. Terrible luck on the Dice tower though, it only reached lvl 2 right before 2nd boss.

[Falgabird]

Originally posted by pushinruslan:

It's like we're playing different games =)
The only reliable build I have is Mosquito + forge/honey/butler. Everything else is too slow/rare to overcome 1st boss. Without mosquitos cat-milk is decent but requires thieves to beat boss-1

another trick is that you have three turns to make a build work.
once had a run that was down to my last life and no viable towers that synergize on turn 3, then got a good obsidian/guardian/guardian/guardian on the far left that saved the run.

[Drachnon]

Just succeeded at a Snek build 2x LVL2 + 2x LVL3 dealing 20-30 poison to each enemy.

[DocUnkraut]

My first win was with:
Mosquito 3 / Mosquito 2 /Mosquito 2 / Mosquito 2 / Mosquito 1 / Bear 2 / Slime / Slime / Iron 3

Slot 8 was empty for the most time, but when you have managed to build up a Iron tower in slot 9 and got a 2nd Slime for slot 8 in shop, the snowball is just more than satisfying.

My 2nd win was with:
Chest 2 / Thief 2 / Cow / Coffee 2 / Milk 4 / Milk 3 / Milk 2 / Cat 5 / Glass 3

[VS ®]

not the best run, but I took a screenshot for clarity
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3188454028

[Budlyte]

Mosquitos, a frog, princess, and tower of defending.

Level the hell out of tower of defending and watch him scale from all the hits against annoyance.

[chilipowder12]

So far I'm enjoying the game pretty casually. Just stumbled a possibly broken combo. On Royal pack, Chest, thief, bee, flower, (open space for honey). Fill in everywhere else you can with bees to max out honey chances. Pile honey onto the flower. It will gift flower with 20% of flower stats then absorb it right back. At least get all towers to rank 2 to block later boss effect. I got to 2.5 Att and 3.5 Health. Next ill try a dice tower for a clover

[Prustan]

Change to chest, thief, bear (or obsidian), flower, space for honey. With enough bee towers in front to make honey, you'll be scaling two towers instead of one.