Tactics

[Lorentz]

What tactic are you using to survive? Post your tactics hear and read up on how others play. You might live another wave longer.

[Schmarvin]

Its up to each individual person. Everyone has their own style of playing. My recommendation? Play around a few times with different ways of building your castle and which bricktrons you want.

[MacBernick]

I took some inspiration from those videos, and it works great.

http://www.youtube.com/user/GamersDissent/videos?sort=dd&tag_id=UCdtxiC-z9Y2hyqESvcfA7Cg.3.castle-story&view=46&shelf_index=3

[Lorentz]

I am playing it on hard and on the normal survival map. And so far i have made it easy to wave 30 without getting ANY of my yellow workforce killed. This is how I am doing it without exploiting bugs.

Supplies

Build a small stockpile very close to a mine. Only 2 miners are needed to supply a 2~3 man building force non stop for stone.
Switch off the orange gems from the mine. (Saves building barrels at the start.)

Basic Defense

Place blocks from the crystal somewhat between 6+ small block spaces (more or less can do aswell. Make the blocks 2 high for starters. Place the blocks not directly on top of each other but more like how a brick house is build.(if they destroy your wall now, only a hole is made in your wall and your wall doesn't collapse). Leave an opening of 1 big block wide in the square.
When you got your outer wall make your inner wall against the outer wall, but make it 4~5 high. Place the blocks similar as the outer wall. Make a staircase inside your fort. DO NOT BUILD DOORS. this way all evil guys go to the opening witch is easy to defend. Make a hallway in front of your entrance 2 high and 4 wide 4 long. You can eventually place 4 defenders here beside each other leaving no room for evil creatures to pass (remember to set them on defend this position). use the rest of the mana gems and spirits to spawn archers and place them on the inner wall.

Advanced Tactic

The evil creatures are not very smart but when reaching wave 30 they gonna start destroying all in their path. Witch either blocks or slows them. So do not use anything to block their path. Instead make a path for them. The creatures come for 3 sides. Build walls with a opening on the smaller sections. Make the walls pretty thick (like 3 blocks thick and 2 or 3 high). In the opening position a staircase of 2 high. and make a path of 2 high. Make a long path with alot of curves that they can follow and your archers will shoot them down. I made a path of only 1 small block wide but i think a long 2 wide path would be better in the long run. In higher waves they start destroying the walls cause there is a hold up in a 1 small block wide path.

Workforce

At the moments i only got 2~3 miners and 4~5 builders.
4 Melee defenders and a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of Archers.


Using this tactic i could easy go take get a coffee or take a piss while they were fanatically attacking without having to worry about them getting to my base. I hope this tactic will be of use to some people. Maybe it can be done a lot easier. But this is how i did it without having a lot of causalities.

What is your tactic to survive?

[Plazmic Flame]

My tactic is pretty simple, I use "Archer Perches". You'll see that all the archers are at the same height (aside from the ones around the main Crystal) and right below them I have a warrior defending the archer should any CTs run for the top. Also, the bonus with this design is that other archers can aim for the CTs as well and don't have their view blocked by a wall or anything.

Pretty much, everyone is watching everyone's back and the guys on the castles can aim for CTs as well. A bonus tip is to create square castles and then destroy the stairs once you have the amount of Archers you want on top. I didn't want this but the CTs destroyed my stairs and then I noticed they ignored those guys.

I have only 2 warriors defending the center Crystal and they barely fight.

Here's a screenshot:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=186000600

[Preacher]

Originally posted by gijsberg:

I am playing it on hard and on the normal survival map. And so far i have made it easy to wave 30 without getting ANY of my yellow workforce killed. This is how I am doing it without exploiting bugs.

Supplies

Build a small stockpile very close to a mine. Only 2 miners are needed to supply a 2~3 man building force non stop for stone.
Switch off the orange gems from the mine. (Saves building barrels at the start.)

Basic Defense

Place blocks from the crystal somewhat between 6+ small block spaces (more or less can do aswell. Make the blocks 2 high for starters. Place the blocks not directly on top of each other but more like how a brick house is build.(if they destroy your wall now, only a hole is made in your wall and your wall doesn't collapse). Leave an opening of 1 big block wide in the square.
When you got your outer wall make your inner wall against the outer wall, but make it 4~5 high. Place the blocks similar as the outer wall. Make a staircase inside your fort. DO NOT BUILD DOORS. this way all evil guys go to the opening witch is easy to defend. Make a hallway in front of your entrance 2 high and 4 wide 4 long. You can eventually place 4 defenders here beside each other leaving no room for evil creatures to pass (remember to set them on defend this position). use the rest of the mana gems and spirits to spawn archers and place them on the inner wall.

Advanced Tactic

The evil creatures are not very smart but when reaching wave 30 they gonna start destroying all in their path. Witch either blocks or slows them. So do not use anything to block their path. Instead make a path for them. The creatures come for 3 sides. Build walls with a opening on the smaller sections. Make the walls pretty thick (like 3 blocks thick and 2 or 3 high). In the opening position a staircase of 2 high. and make a path of 2 high. Make a long path with alot of curves that they can follow and your archers will shoot them down. I made a path of only 1 small block wide but i think a long 2 wide path would be better in the long run. In higher waves they start destroying the walls cause there is a hold up in a 1 small block wide path.

Workforce

At the moments i only got 2~3 miners and 4~5 builders.
4 Melee defenders and a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of Archers.


Using this tactic i could easy go take get a coffee or take a piss while they were fanatically attacking without having to worry about them getting to my base. I hope this tactic will be of use to some people. Maybe it can be done a lot easier. But this is how i did it without having a lot of causalities.

What is your tactic to survive?

Could you plz post a picture? It's kinda hard for me to vidulize it. Thanks!

[Bluelight]

I make something like this (first try), but I haven't been playing more then to wave 17 lol, But fortress is still strong! I leave a one space gap for them to climb over at each barricade, so it's easier for the archers! I think they sometimes use ranged attack though, since I keep losing archers without CT reaching them..

ScreenCap

@Plazmic Flame: How do you post screens like that?