Oh joy, another defense game you ask. Yes, I know, there is so many of those out there by now you want to vomit thinking of it. This one isn’t the tower defense type but more of the defend your castle type but with more features and less playing itself (but it can do that too).
The game is very simple but also very complex. It’s your standard defense game and if you haven’t played one yet I highly suggest try Defending your Castle or something else because this one is a rather difficult one. The basics with this one is that you have a castle, you have sandbags which do damage absorption, and then you have a multitude of weapons/items to use. The enemies come and you need to shoot them down, or else they’ll beat your castle down and you’ll lose.
Luckily, if you’re on hardcore mode, it’ll delete your save file. Ouch, right? Yeah. Not so luckily. If you’re on normal or casual mode you’ll be able to restart the battle or carryover your stuff to a new game if you want to startover (i.e. you screwed up).
The game has a lot of flaws, for instance, aiming is difficult and inaccurate. It’s also hard to manage your cash and you’ll eventually reach a point where you get less cash than you spend on upkeep (making cash gains a constant loss). On the other hand there is A LOT of stuff to do/upgrade/etc.
Battle
Point and shoot with your gun, use 1–5 for any items you have. Your weapon that you shoot from should always be #1, but you can switch weapons by moving them on the bar in the smithy or equip screen. Sisters are launched automatically and your team will shoot automatically as well.
Upgrades
You gain skills as you level up, which you level up with XP as you kill enemies and search town. When you level up, at the end of the match, you’ll be given a screen with 4–6 skills randomly picked out of the available pool for you to learn. If you focus a skill then you’ll get a better chance of it showing up and there are skills that give you more skill options on the level up screen. Picking skills is important because faster reloading, less recoil, more accuracy, and the most important – weapon skills are the key thing to winning.
Upgrades for your recruits work differently. They’ll automatically level up their skills on their own, but you can focus a skill to push them into focusing up on a certain skill.
Recruits
You can recruit helpers in the barracks. Pick ones that COMPLIMENT you and start with a lot of skills that don’t overlap your own. You’ll get to a point where new recruits are so low level that they’re useless and if you level up “bad” recruits it’ll be BLAH. Trainers can help give them new skills, but you never know where if that will help.
You can equip recruits with weapons on the equip screen.
In the barracks screen you can switch yourself from hero mode to auto-fire, for when you bling yourself out to the point you can take on everything easily.
Tower
The tower tab gives you a lot of options. You can fix your tower, which is rather cheap and you should do, build up your tower’s walls and defenses, or buy a ton of upgrades. THERE ARE TWO PAGES. So if you want to know where the sisters or chickens are, check the next page.
Upgrades:
- Wall: Buying this is good, but sandbags are better since they take off a % of the damage and are essentially a beefer wall if you think about it in a weird way.
- Sandbags: Good, they decrease damage, but better later on when the damage is bigger and more intense.
- Storage: You don’t need a lot of storage early on, but working on maxing this out can make your life easier and let you pickup more loot.
- House: You need to max it ASAP because more recruits = better.
- Looter: Investing in your income, don’t go too far with it.
- Repairman: You need this to survive later waves, dump extra money here.
- Trainer: Dump extra money into it.
- Smith: Good later on when you’re trying to buy more gravity guns or more grenades.
- Museum: A weird way to increase income, but it’s cheap.
- Chicken: Buying chickens are a cheap way to turn AP into $.
- Sister: OK these are for a medal (which works for a kongregate achievement). Buy them as you can afford them. They’re cheap, do a lot of damage, and keep things going later on when so much stuff is coming for you.
- Villa: Pick it up as you can afford it, it’s expensive and you don’t “need” it early on.
- Sp Trainer: REALLY GOOD. It teaches your recruits new skills. Work towards maxing it when you start having a reall good income.
Smithy
The blacksmith hates you, eats AP, and hates you. His weapons are “blah” most of the time and refreshing his shop is an AP sink. Buy grenades/weapon upgrades here but don’t blow AP on refreshing unless you feel lucky. Reforge is a way to turn a crappy item into a good item, but only pickup items with lots of mod slots.
Reforging takes away the newest mod, so be careful with how you mod your stuff.
Museum & Medals
You need medals to get the hard kong achievement and you’ll probably get the impossible before the medals unless you work on it. Alright here is how it works.
The survivor medals (Newcomer to Choosen One (which is at 150 days)) work on how many days you survive. The chicken ones revolve around you buying chickens (120 chickens to max out) and give more Egg Revenue.
Sister ____ involve buying sisters. 30 maxes it out and they give more bomb damage.
Defender is about perfect games (ending with MAX castle health) and give a 1% damage absorb. The class award (for each base class) is given at level 10 with a class and unlocks new classes. I suggest going Hunter for the Ranger which is IMO the best.
The “killer” series is all about crits, which is random as far as I know, while the rest on that screen are all AP event related. Prayer is obvious, Provoker should be done early, Boomer will come as you throw parties (just get a lvl 1 villa and party everyday for 10 days), Gun Mania is 10 recycled guns. Rob the museum 20 times for Robber. Robbing the museum is good for cash, I guess, but you get diminishing returns if you keep doing it the same day.
Kongregate is a free one! Just click the kong link.
Ragnarok Surviver, do this one on casual. Use the “Ragnarok” item when you get it and survive the wave of angry horses that come. It’s wtf hard.
Ha-na-bi involves AFKing on the victory screen for a bit.
Elonian – Win 40 rounds on regular (at which point the enemies reset, but remain as difficult). Hardcore is about surviving 20 days on hardcore Not that difficult once you have some medals. Ultimate Hardcore – survive 40 rounds on hardcore to get a free Gravity Gun. RNG Award. Survive 80 days on Hardcore. Tough one, but gives luck.
At the inn hiring a henchman is a money sink, don’t do it unless you _have_ to and he blows sisters up easily. Praying/dinner should be done often enough. Party when you can. Taunt for the achievement and train when you can to. Searching is what you should do with the rest of your AP as the reward isn’t “firm”.
Strategy
When you start the game, do it on casual, and work at gaining a few medals and learning the game. Take a hunter and get an autofire bow and just have fun. See what works. Get to level 10 and that’ll pop the easy and medium achievements. You can barely lose on casual and if you do you can restart.
Now, you have two options. Grind out the medal achievement on casual and then go hardcore or go hardcore with what medals you have.
Medals carry over to a hardcore game so you can have a much better start if you have Survivor (200gp starting money), Adept Defender (3% castle absorb), Hunter’s Award (unlocks Ranger), and the chicken one doesn’t hurt. You can get the medal achievement in Hardcore, but you can also get the Hardcore achievement before the medal one if you focus on doing just the important town events to keep going.
In the hardcore game don’t even bother until you have enough medals to give you a good enough boost. From here it’s important to realize that stuff is harder than in casual, but it’s still a very easy game if you know what you’re doing. Work on establishing an income and surviving early on. Get your chickens, get the recruits, and then focus on weapons. You’ll want at least two gravity gun using recruits and you’ll want a autobow until you can get something better. Make sure henchmen with gravity guns have autoreload.
Then keep going. You can do it.
You can backup your save file if you know where the game stores saves, so that if it deletes it you can restart from a point. You can use google to find out how since I consider it cheating.
Well that’s about it, oh and if you’re looking to buy sisters or chicken THERE ARE TWO PAGES. I missed that for days 
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Elonian isn´t what you said.
We will gain it when we take wave 40 at hardcore.
fixed, you’re right, I was just reading the game text which doesn’t specify it or didn’t for me, but it’s wave 40 when the creatures reset