Dead Lands (Island 5) it's too hard !!!

[Kar]

extremely difficult to move forward on this island... once every six or seven nights there is a fierce attack by greed and it's the third time i have to start the game over ... can anyone explain to me if there is a tactic to survive the fifth island or the game sets too high a difficulty on the fifth island?.. thanks

[uov]

you need to make sure you have all the necessary upgrades from previous islands, these are:
the archer statue - makes you archers almost always hit
the builders statue - makes your walls stronger
the ballista hermit - allows you to upgrade triple archer towers into powerful ballistas for taking on floaters and breeders
optional:
the baker hermit - allows you to upgrade triple archer towers into bakeries, that you can pay to attract vagrants from distant camps
the farmer statue - makes your farms produce gold much faster

if you have all these upgrades it shouldnt be too hard, make sure you expand enough so that you can make pikemen/ninja and catapults, and trains LOADS of archers

hope this helps :D

[Meteor Bear]

Whats so great about pikemen? I couldnt tell that they did much for defense...

[Irene]

Originally posted by Meteor Bear:

Whats so great about pikemen? I couldnt tell that they did much for defense...

Pikemen poke greed just outside the walls and they use pikes to catch fish in the river even in winter which converts to gold coins. They provide a steady gold income in every season.

[F*ck The Meta]

Lizard mount helps a lot. If you go far enough outside your walls you can start setting them on fire and kill a lot of them before they ever reach the walls. This can even kill breeders, just know that it takes FOREVER to kill them this way, they can live for several minutes while on fire. Floaters still ♥♥♥♥ you up though, and there just doesn't seem to be a good counter for them other than upgrading your watchtowers until they have roofs.

[TheDeeGee]

I seem to be stuck the same way, cleared the 4 islands before, but on land 5 i'm stuck with heavy attacks right from the start.

Apart from that camps are WAY WAAAAAAAY out of reach, and it's impossible to make money.

[Zeke]

Originally posted by TheDeeGee:

I seem to be stuck the same way, cleared the 4 islands before, but on land 5 i'm stuck with heavy attacks right from the start.

Apart from that camps are WAY WAAAAAAAY out of reach, and it's impossible to make money.

my question is if your breaking every single one of the portals on previous island because when you break a portal, the overall greed swarms increase going forward on "all" islands so if you smached, say, all the dock portals on the previous islands, the 5th is going to be waaaaayyyyyy harder than if you didnt
personally, i only break the cave portals so i can get the bomb in and never break the dock side portals unless i really have to, it keeps the overall swarm low(ish)

as for the far away camps, thats kinda the entire reason for the baker, it lures them to you instead of having to go out and recruit yourself
(try making a farm and build a baker on the closest tower spot, you can use that farm to pay for all the bread)

[teleshoes]

what zeke said. get to island 5 as soon as possible, breaking as few portals as possible, and the game will be a breeze
-do islands: 1 => 2 => 1 (archer) => 3 => 4 => 5 => 1 => 2 => 3
-break NO portals until island 4, then destroy ONLY cave side portals

[TheDeeGee]

Originally posted by Zeke:

Originally posted by TheDeeGee:

I seem to be stuck the same way, cleared the 4 islands before, but on land 5 i'm stuck with heavy attacks right from the start.

Apart from that camps are WAY WAAAAAAAY out of reach, and it's impossible to make money.

my question is if your breaking every single one of the portals on previous island because when you break a portal, the overall greed swarms increase going forward on "all" islands so if you smached, say, all the dock portals on the previous islands, the 5th is going to be waaaaayyyyyy harder than if you didnt
personally, i only break the cave portals so i can get the bomb in and never break the dock side portals unless i really have to, it keeps the overall swarm low(ish)

as for the far away camps, thats kinda the entire reason for the baker, it lures them to you instead of having to go out and recruit yourself
(try making a farm and build a baker on the closest tower spot, you can use that farm to pay for all the bread)

Didn't know about the Portals, very useful to know.

Is the best tactic really to rush to Land 5 and work your way down then?

[TheDeeGee]

Originally posted by teleshoes:

what zeke said. get to island 5 as soon as possible, breaking as few portals as possible, and the game will be a breeze
-do islands: 1 => 2 => 1 (archer) => 3 => 4 => 5 => 1 => 2 => 3
-break NO portals until island 4, then destroy ONLY cave side portals

Thanks for the info.

I did beat Dead Lands now, it seems if you die the waves starts from scratch again.

[SweenMachine]

The ballista tower and lizard mount are absolutely key here. The guy that makes the ballista tower is wearing brown with a brown hood.

Only expand your walls to areas where there are two dirt mounds close to each other so you get two walls before your army has to start falling back. Most double walls also include a rock to build a tower, which you can upgrade to a ballista. Don't forget to clear a nice open area in front of your wall for a hunting ground for easy money.

Only buy 1-2 fire barrels for your catapults at a time, the rocks are key for murdering the giants.

The only real "counter" for the flyers is to have a sh*tload of archers, so do that asap.

Take out the dock first so you don't need to worry about minding two sides, or guessing which side a blood moon is coming from. Once you're only dealing with one side and have a double wall with a ballista tower and the fire breath, even island 5 is easy mode. I beat it without knowing about the portal destruction mechanic mentioned above (I had all 4 other islands completely cleared), and still beat it without much trouble once I got the dock taken down.

Don't forget to upgrade the regular soldiers to knights by upgrading the town center all the way along with your outer walls. The knights can be powered up with coins.

Good luck!

Edit: Also if you lose, you have to go to each island and activate all the statues, mounts, etc again. Don't know what they were thinking here because it's just pointlessly tedious if the other islands are conquered, but it is what it is. You will need the statues for island 5.