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A Beginner's Guide to the Campaign

By Exponentious

I recently decided to give this game another chance, and holy cow do I enjoy this game. It's refreshingly difficult in a sort of classic no-hand-holding sense, and punishes lack of attention and bad choices with thoroughly infuriating defeats...even on easy if you're not paying attention.
My aim here is to iterate my way to a series of workable guide-post notes and decisions that other new players can use to improve their overall campaign play. I do not expect to produce a comprehensive guide for the 100%er, but if I can help 1% of the player base do 1% better, I'll call it mission accomplished.

Not an expert at all, but I'm enjoying my time and I'm happy to help others enjoy their time as well.

RoadMap plan
v0.2 - win conditions and notes on ore locations
v0.3 - troop and building stat tables so I can make smarter decisions on the tech tree
v0.4 - basic strategies for maps on v0.1
v0.5 - non RTS maps
v0.6 - treatment on hero selection and strategy
v0.7 - exploration of the tech tree
v0.8 - 2 reasonable tech tree paths for would-be generals
v0.9 - we'll see where we go from here, but I'm sure there will be something...

Award

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Category: Achievements, Maps or Levels, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

Posted

Updated

26 Dec, 2021 @ 12:16pm

14 Nov, 2022 @ 8:24am

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Guide Index

Overview

RTS Missions - Difficulty 1

RTS Missions - Difficulty 2

RTS Missions - Difficulty 3

RTS Missions - Difficulty 4

RTS Missions - Difficulty 5

Change History and Versions

Comments

RTS Missions - Difficulty 1

The Hidden Valley

Win Conditions

Destroy all infected
Population 300
Survive Swarms

The Hunter's Meadow

Win Conditions

Colony Population 600

The Crossroads

Win Conditions

Destroy all villages of doom
Population 400

RTS Missions - Difficulty 2

The Mines of the Raven

Win Conditions

Colony Population 700
Gold Production 2000

The Coast of Bones

Win Conditions

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population 800
Resist all swarms of infected

The Narrow Pass

Win Conditions

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population 1000
Resist all swarms of infected

Cape Storm

Win Conditions

Colony Population 1500
Resist all swarms of infected

The Lands of the Giant

Win Conditions

Destroy all the infected
Colony Population 1000

The Lowlands

Colony Population 1200

RTS Missions - Difficulty 3

The Frozen Lake

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population: 1500.
Resist all swarms of infected.
Destroy all villages of doom.

The Lonely Forest

Colony Population: 1500.
Resist all swarms of infected.

The Oasis

Colony Population: 2600.
Resist all swarms of infected.

The Valley of Death

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population: 1500.
Destroy all villages of doom.

The Nest of the Harpy

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population: 1600.
Destroy all villages of doom.

The Villa of Terror

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population: 2000.
Resist all swarms of infected.
Destroy all villages of doom

RTS Missions - Difficulty 4

The Resistance

Colony Population: 2000.
Resist all swarms of infected.

The Broken Land

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population: 1600.
Resist all swarms of infected.
Destroy all villages of doom.

El Dorado

Colony Population: 1800.
Gold Production: 8000.

The Forbidden Forest

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population: 2000.
Resist all swarms of infected.
Destroy all villages of doom.

The Noxious Swamp

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population: 1800.
Resist all swarms of infected.
Destroy all villages of doom.

RTS Missions - Difficulty 5

The Wasteland of the Giants

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population: 2000.
Resist all swarms of infected.
Destroy all villages of doom.

The Highlands

Colony Population: 5000.
Resist all swarms of infected.

The Goddess of Destiny

Destroy all the infected.
Colony Population: 3000.
Resist all swarms of infected.
Destroy all villages of doom.

Change History and Versions

v0.1 - 26 Dec 2021 - RTS Mission Titles and map images. This is a simple way to get a quick map reference for use in planning next map to take, and in which directions expansion will be easiest in early game. I found myself wanting this early, so it was the first obvious thing to put together.

v0.1 - 7 Jan 2022 - improved organization and navigability in prep for addition of new info

v0.1 - 14 Nov 2022 - removed incorrect requirement from Lowlands map (thanks Psojed for that note)

7 Comments

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Exponentious [author] 14 Nov, 2022 @ 8:19am

I definitely like shock early too. Wish I had more time to play lately, too much work and other nerd stuff in my life but I started this with big ambitions...then stupid wrist pain started up.

I pulled these maps from some media material I think. Came from the game creator somehow but I don't precisely recall. I don't think there is any difficulty based differences to the maps though.

Psojed 14 Nov, 2022 @ 5:59am

@T.Phong: I don't remember Raven being particurlarly hard. But I like grab the Shock Tower tech early, so that might be one of the reasons. Here's what I had entering into Raven https://i.imgur.com/0GxQmtQ.jpg

Psojed 14 Nov, 2022 @ 5:40am

Lowlands (Difficulty 2) does not require clearing all the infected, just reaching 1200 pop.

Also thanks for doing this. I'm doing a 800% playthrough and seeing the map revealed beforehand is very helpful for base planning. On which difficulty are these screenshots taken?

T.Phong 11 Jun, 2022 @ 9:05am

the tech tree really is something, Raven without ballista is hard and almost noway to win (playing on hard 200%)

grumpypants 4 Jan, 2022 @ 3:58am

nevermind not 4, but 6 times now. i quit

Exponentious [author] 3 Jan, 2022 @ 3:36pm

I think that was where I died first too, they teach you to watch your back....they teach you REAL hard

grumpypants 2 Jan, 2022 @ 11:17pm

i lost 4 times on the mines of the raven...i wanna cry

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