This is one of the best TD games out there, I've found. I played mostly the first version, without the bash tower, so I haven't figured out if that one is worth it yet.

Ares, great post with tips for newer players, it's really helpful. If you want to get higher scores however, you will have to send multiple waves in as fast as possible after each other, since each wave you send in with "send next level" awards you bonus points. So, if you get really good, you just send in all the ground levels, and only have to wait for the air levels.
You're probably wondering though, how do you kill 5 waves at once? That's where a great trick comes in.... juggling. What's juggling, you ask? Juggling is making 2 paths, and sealing off one. When the group gets almost to the end of the first path, sell the tower blocking the 2nd path, and seal off the first path. Tadaa, group has to move all the way back through the maze to the exit on the other side now. As you can't do this with air levels, obviously, you can't send those in too fast after each other.

Now that selling towers actually takes increasingly longer time though, I'm not sure if this still works, I haven't tested yet how long selling takes when you do it a lot, but it can't be too bad, since juggling is the only way you could get a highscore in the first version.

~AreS]

Canada2170 Posts

April 08 2007 07:06 GMT

#25

I've tried that method and it's not too reliable when you've got split units. The sell time later on is painfully long and timing it would be difficult for any level except the group level.

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

April 08 2007 07:06 GMT

#26

Maybe this is a cool way to use bash... iono.
It looks so cool when 4 bash tower hits and kill like 1232321 in 2 hits.
Problem is that boss are so hard to kill with bash...

I think if we can find a way to stack everything perfectly then forst, then bash. Maybe. Along w/ a missile tower.

~AreS]

Canada2170 Posts

April 08 2007 07:31 GMT

#27

You really only want towers that can hit everything. Bash towers can only hit ground, and their range can be annoying.

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

April 08 2007 07:35 GMT

#28

On April 08 2007 16:31 ~AreS] wrote:
You really only want towers that can hit everything. Bash towers can only hit ground, and their range can be annoying.

I know but man the name...
BASH tower!
You gotta use it just because it has the name BASH in it! BASHING!

mikeymoo

Canada7170 Posts

April 08 2007 07:45 GMT

#29

On April 08 2007 14:50 ~AreS] wrote:
One of my better defenses:

My Typhoon Towers get maximum number of hits, and they're all placed in the path of the flying towers.

OMG you stole my build! hax.

My path was almost identical. but i had dart and swarm. I guess that's what made it worse.

useLess

United States4781 Posts

April 08 2007 08:52 GMT

#30

Bash Tower is fun to use; its like an ICBM (upg Dart) with Stun and no range, but its way expensive to be useful.

PanoRaMa

United States5070 Posts

April 08 2007 09:10 GMT

#31

6203 on medium

my placement is horrible though, ended up leaking 1-2 on earlier air levels

bottom left and top right chokes allowed for "juggling" which was handy vs the imba end swarm boss though.

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

April 08 2007 09:15 GMT

#32

what does upgraded pillet tower do? are they any good?

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

April 08 2007 09:26 GMT

#33

Damn! all spaawn level is so impossible!

useLess

United States4781 Posts

April 08 2007 09:41 GMT

#34

On April 08 2007 18:15 evanthebouncy~ wrote:
what does upgraded pillet tower do? are they any good?

Sniper Tower. Long range, like 400 dmg, but very slow attack.

edit: I doubt people get anti-air (Swarm Tower), so for the curious, the final upgrade for that is the Storm Tower, 480 dmg, 75 range, fast attack, fires 4 missiles with splash.

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

April 08 2007 09:45 GMT

#35

On April 08 2007 18:41 useless wrote:

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Sniper Tower. Long range, like 400 dmg, but very slow attack.

we need a chart for dmg/cost/time ratio agian...
like a chart or something.

I don't get it this game didn't pick up as well as the previous tower D games yet this one is best so far. Maybe they just got tired.

PanoRaMa

United States5070 Posts

April 08 2007 09:53 GMT

#36

I have upgraded pellet there because at the end I had a huge surplus of money which I coulda got another fully upgraded typhoon w/ (but the upgrade times are so annoyingly long, I guess that just makes it so timing is a more important factor?). But yeah I always wondered if upgraded pellets are worth it, since it seems everyone just skips them.

JeeJee

Canada5652 Posts

April 08 2007 09:56 GMT

#37

hmm just tried it, i had two ways to each, separated by a long walk in between (so like left->right had 2 paths to take, and top->down had 2 paths)
so once they'd go down one path, i'd block it, they'd go back up, and go down the other path
i'd sell the previos tower that blocked, and block this path.
forgot about air though lol

useLess

United States4781 Posts

April 08 2007 10:02 GMT

#38

Pellet -> (200) Sniper Tower, 400 dmg, 180 range, very slow attack
Squirt -> (450) Typhoon Tower, 320 dmg, 90 range, fast attack
Dart -> (400) ICBM Tower, 256 dmg, 140 range, very slow attack
Swarm -> (640) Storm Tower, 480 dmg, 75 range, fast attack, fires 4 missiles with splash.
Frost -> (200) Blizzard Tower, 40 dmg, 75 range, slow attack, slow and splash
Bash -> (745) Quake Tower, 320 dmg, 40 range, slow attack, 20% stun

Bash and Dart are very fun to use, simply because of the splash damage. Frost is relatively cheap to upgrade. Squirt seems to be most effective overall.

edit: prices are in ( ), and calculated from lvl 5 values + final upgrade cost.