Unlock all squads and achievements, share yours tips

[Chuttle]

Well, i have almost all the squads except the secret one, i found some ideas to do some achievements pretty easely but i try to do some but fail every time.
So i tought about the idea of the community helping each other to gain all the achievements.
So i will begin, for the achievements for the custom squad, take only prime mechs for the two firsts achievements, especially the one with the flame thrower since you can make almost the whole map and the ennemies take 2 damage from the flame thrower if they are already on fire and you are immune to fire.

[Arghaab]

For the custom squad, I went with 3 times the flying frozen mech, so you can do 2 achievements at once.
In the same run, you can easily finish 3 islands without powering a weapon modification.

[Kotli]

Only problem with 3 freeze mechs is this you need the mobs to attack them each round or you cant do a thing.

[LaChouette]

Playing on easy helps a lot for achievements.

For the random squad, you can easily do all three achievements plus the "3 islands without weapon mods" and the "3 islands without changing weapons or pilots" with a balanced random team. I recommend a prime+brute+ranged team, as most of the science mechs are usually not really good without weapon mods.

Originally posted by Kotli:

Only problem with 3 freeze mechs is this you need the mobs to attack them each round or you cant do a thing.

You could also use Bethany on one of them. That's still two mechs that freeze themselves, so you can still block spawns and attacks, but you got one mech that will always be good no matter what happens.

[Kittens]

I did triple swap mech for the two-in-one custom run. That was both hilarious and effective.

[Terin]

Originally posted by Arghaab:

For the custom squad, I went with 3 times the flying frozen mech, so you can do 2 achievements at once.
In the same run, you can easily finish 3 islands without powering a weapon modification.

Can you get that achievement even if you're not playing the Frozen Titans?

[Iron Mike]

What is the criteria for unlocking the secret squad? A certain number of total coins earned?

[Arghaab]

Originally posted by Terin:

Can you get that achievement even if you're not playing the Frozen Titans?

Yes, they're not related. You're probably thinking about another achievement.

Originally posted by Mike The Warlock:

What is the criteria for unlocking the secret squad? A certain number of total coins earned?

Every achievement unlocked.

[Gangrene]

I won my Hard mode run with Bethany on Freeze Mech, accompanied by the Aegis Mech, and the starter Battle Mech. Lots of damage and crowd control; got a 2 island victory in no time.

[cheliotk]

One thing to note if going for the 'no weapon mods' achievement, I am pretty certain passive effects also count as weapons. I just went with a 3-passive squad (mechs immune to fire, storm damage, and vek increased damage to other vek) powering up passive abilities only, and was locked out of the achievement.