Rat King Mission - Cant build before attacked - SOLVED

[Daniel.Kiwi]

I've completed the game when it first came out & thought I'd give it another jam.
I've played all the missions & now I have to complete Mortal Foibles of Kings (Rat King Mission) before I can do the rest.

I've read guides, youtube videos etc (Most [All?] use the 5x bug that's been fixed)
I get swamped with rats before any building can be built.

I've tried building 2 Rangers - 300 hitpoints built before they get swamed
2 ranger & cleric - same issue
ranger, rouge & tower - same issue, none get built before they get swamped
building 2 ranger guilds 1 screen away & 2 towers near rat holes to draw swarms - peasants get killed before anything gets built.

I've also tried instantly pausing the game, slowing it down, placing the guild between pauses

I tried the youtube video in the guides section - Doesn't work as the rats & undead focus on the peasants rather than the towers so I have 1/4 built towers & every time a peasant swamps the rats stop attacking the tower & kill the peasant.


What's the trick?
How the hell do I do it?




EDIT

The issue was needing to turn v sync on & off otherwise the rat king would spawn repeatedly to fast
http://steamcommunity.com/app/73020/discussions/0/458604254440454046/

[spark.milanders]

I think a big part of it is just a lucky start. Depends where the rat holes spawn and where your buildings are.

[Kantz]

Other people with same issue. Buildspeed seems to be tied to your ingame fps:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/73020/discussions/0/458604254440454046/

[Daniel.Kiwi]

Originally posted by Kantz:

Other people with same issue. Buildspeed seems to be tied to your ingame fps:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/73020/discussions/0/458604254440454046/

Cheers the vsync on & off worked wonders

[bidulless]

hello,
you should try to build a guild and summone some nobles

[chvb_]

Was having large issues too. I got around it by starting with a wizard guild (builds itself) and then placing a wiz defence tower (also builds itself) by the nearest sewer entrance. Then trained 1 wiz, started the marketplace next to wiz guild and put a def marker on it. Also, I started in the southwest section and built down. Once they were built I put up a guard tower near the next closest sewer entrance and expanded from there.
I restarted about 10 times before getting a build sequence that worked. Destroyed by rats sooo many times.....

[Rhia]

For me it was just tower spam that finally culled the flow, I had a lucky break that several of the sewers were close togehter but I still have a good number of towers in key points, also rangers get a bonus vs beasts so build those. Clerics in 3s can heal tank pretty well too.

[Damocles]

Build your stuff in the north, and build many towers slowly like a circle around your castle.
In that way you have only to worry about the monsters around you.

[Serann]

What I found to be working fairly well, was to build a mage's guild, a market place and a tower in REALLY close proximity to another.

Save the game once the mages guild is up and load the game every time a mage dies. Once the mages are level 5 or something, they will be less squishy and take care of most of the rats for you. By then, the market place should have given you enough money to build a second guild, which were clerics in my case. Afterwards I buffed the ranks with cheap heroes like rogues and scouts.

[The Cunning Fox (raZoleg)]

Never had a problem with this one - built a hall of heroes or whatever it's called, and bought me my hero Ranger who wasted everyone. I always build rogues at the start as well - cheapest unit and they get rid of the trash, smart enough to run away from big guys who fight my hero Ranger and the city guard.

Then Ranger Guild, another tower, then I've made healers. Then mages, last was warriors, but by that time I've had a fully upgraded base with 2x guilds each.

Did the mission on the first go.

[Daniel.Kiwi]

The issue was needing to turn v sync on & off otherwise the rat king would spawn repeatedly to fast

[KING]

Originally posted by Daniel.Drache:

I've completed the game when it first came out & thought I'd give it another jam.
I've played all the missions & now I have to complete Mortal Foibles of Kings (Rat King Mission) before I can do the rest.

I've read guides, youtube videos etc (Most [All?] use the 5x bug that's been fixed)
I get swamped with rats before any building can be built.

I've tried building 2 Rangers - 300 hitpoints built before they get swamed
2 ranger & cleric - same issue
ranger, rouge & tower - same issue, none get built before they get swamped
building 2 ranger guilds 1 screen away & 2 towers near rat holes to draw swarms - peasants get killed before anything gets built.

I've also tried instantly pausing the game, slowing it down, placing the guild between pauses

I tried the youtube video in the guides section - Doesn't work as the rats & undead focus on the peasants rather than the towers so I have 1/4 built towers & every time a peasant swamps the rats stop attacking the tower & kill the peasant.


What's the trick?
How the hell do I do it?




EDIT

The issue was needing to turn v sync on & off otherwise the rat king would spawn repeatedly to fast
http://steamcommunity.com/app/73020/discussions/0/458604254440454046/

RIP me ..... x.x i struggle with that mission x.x ... i do wizard guild FFAAAAR away from castle, ant take their Towers to defend my kingdom x.x .... ughhh rip me ...