Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD

Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD

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Quick 100% Achievements Guide | Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance
By RalfekS
Quick, easy-to-follow complete Achievements Guide with 🐣Easter egg trivia
   
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📖About
➥ Use Find (Ctrl + F) to find Achievement you need
➥ Check your progress here
🕹️Gameplay
Unlock as the game progresses, can't be missed ➔ no extra effort needed.
➥ Battle
    Not a Moment to Waste
    Call 15 waves early.
    War Masonry
    Build 100 towers.
    Mighty I
    Slay 500 enemies.
    Mighty II
    Slay 3000 enemies.
    Mighty III
    Slay 10000 enemies.
    Unending Riches
    Collect a total of 150000 gold.
    • Okay, this one might take a while ;)

➥ Difficulty / Mode
    Seasoned General
    Complete the campaign on Veteran difficulty.
    • 🚩Stages 1-16 on 🎖️Veteran
    Age of Heroes
    Win all the Heroic Mode campaign challenges.
    • 🚩Stages 1-16 🛡️Heroic
    Ironclad
    Win all the Iron Mode campaign challenges.
    • 🚩Stages 1-16 ✊Iron
    Master Tactician
    Complete the campaign on Impossible difficulty.
    • 🚩Stages 1-16 on 💀Impossible
⚔️Heroes & ✨Spells
Only first 4 of 17 heroes need level 10 for the achievement.
💡Tip: "Lone Wolves" upgrade (Heroes tree) makes heroes level up 50% faster, when they stay apart

    Signature Techniques
    Use Hero Powers 500 times.
    • 📝Trivia: Infinity Gauntlet snap, like in "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018)
    Royal Captain
    Reach level 10 with Vesper.
    • 💬❝ Always on target ❞
    Dark Lieutenant
    Reach level 10 with Raelyn.
    • 💬❝ I am unrivalled! ❞
    Forest Protector
    Reach level 10 with Nyru.
    • 💬❝ Listen to nature, hehehh ❞
    Untamed Beast
    Reach level 10 with Grimson.
    • 💬❝ No one can stop us! ❞

✨ Spells
    The cavalry is here!
    Summon 1000 reinforcements.
    • 💡Tip: Call waves early to reduce cooldown
🏰Factions
There are 19 Towers and 17 Heroes:
💡Tip: Upper-left flag = Hero or Tower faction
    Linirean Resistance
    Win a stage using only Linirean towers and heroes.
    • 10 Towers & 8 Heroes
    Dark Ruthlessness
    Win a stage using only Dark Army towers and heroes
    • 9 Towers & 9 Heroes
🗺️Everadiant Forest【1-6】
    Learning the Ropes
    Finish the Tutorial with 3 stars.
    • 🚩Stage 1. Sea of Trees
    • 💡Tip: You need at least 18 ❤hearts for 3 ★stars.
    Nature's Wrath
    Kill 30 enemies using the Heart of the Arboreans.
    • 🚩Stage 3. The Heart of the Forest
    • 💡Tip: Activate when heart glows at low-health enemies
    Greenlit Allies
    Summon 10 Arborean Thornspears
    • 🚩Stage 4. Emerald Treetops
    • 💡Tip: Buy and restart level ↻
    Pork's Off the Menu
    Defeat Goregrind.
    • 🚩Stage 6. The Wildbeast Den
    • 📝Trivia: Goregrind's mud pit is decorated with several Arborean masks:
      • Knight from Hollow Knight (2017)
      • Predator (1987) mask
      • titular mask from "The Mask" (1994)
    Tangled Up
    Defeat Goregrind before jumping in Impossible difficulty
    • 🚩Stage 6. The Wildbeast Den on 💀Impossible
    • 💡Tip: Beat the game on any difficulty to unlock 💀Impossible
    Saviour of the Green
    Get 3 stars on every stage of the Everadiant Forest.
    • 🚩Stages 1-6

🧭Exploration & 🐣 Easter eggs
Note: Easter eggs are intentionally without screenshots for you to discover.
Just keep clicking on the little weird things on the map.
    Runequest
    Activate all six runes throughout the Everadiant Forest.
    • 🚩Stages 1-6
    • 💡Tip: One rune stone per level (6 in total)
    • 📝Trivia: Named after a tabletop roleplaying game "RuneQuest"
    Tipping the Scales
    Throw Robin Wood to the river.
    • 🚩Stage 1. Sea of Trees
    • 💡Tip: Two people on the bridge
    • 📝Trivia: Two characters on the log bridge are Robin Hood and Little John, recreating a scene from "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" (1991)
    Field Trip Ruiner
    Put out the camper's fire.
    • 🚩Stage 1. Sea of Trees
    • 💡Tip: Click 3× on the campfire
    Circle of Life
    Attend the presentation of the newborn Arborean.
    • 🚩Stage 2. The Guardian Gate
    • 💡Tip: Click on the Arborean
    • 📝Trivia: The title song from "The Lion King" (1994), recreating the scene where Arborean (Rafiki) lifts the smaller one as the sun shines; short music mirrors the Zulu-style lyrics from the song
    It's a Secret to Everyone
    Help Lank fish 5 rupees.
    • 🚩Stage 2. The Guardian Gate
    • 💡Tip: Click when ! appears (5× in total, can be across runs, gives +25 gold)
    • 📝Trivia: Paraphrases a line by an enemy in "The Legend of Zelda", and we have Link fishing; also The Forest Guardian resembles the Great Deku Tree ("Tears of the Kingdom")
    Most Delicious
    Feed some honey to Biggie the Arborean
    • 🚩Stage 3. The Heart of the Forest
    • 💡Tip: Click on Arborean next to honey
    • 📝Trivia: Winnie the Pooh ???
    Playful Friends
    Play 'burrow' with all of the Arboreans in the Heart of the Forest.
    • 🚩Stage 3. The Heart of the Forest
    • 💡Tip: Find all 5 Arboreans
    • 📝Trivia: Forest Spirits in Studio Ghibli films, where tree-dwelling creatures play hide-and-seek or burrow games together ???
    Game Over
    Push the Arboreans from the treetops.
    • 🚩Stage 4. Emerald Treetops
    • 💡Tip: 4 total; wait for the vine climber
    • 📝Trivia: Classic “Game Over” jingle from old arcade games like Pac-Man and other retro platformers
    Ovine Journalism
    Find Sheepy in each campaign terrain.
    • 🚩Stages 4. Emerald Treetops & 🚩9. Wicked Crossing & 🚩12. Blighted Farmlands
    • 💡Tip: Click sheepy (3 in total)
    • 📝Trivia: Shaun the Sheep ???
      • Can be also seen on 🚩22. Starving Hollow (click aligator)
    Cleanup is Optional
    Complete the Ravaged Outskirts without clearing rubble from the strategic points.
    • 🚩Stage 5. Ravaged Outskirts
    • 💡Tip: Don't clear 3 tower spots
    • 📝Trivia: Stereotype of construction workers leaving behind messes or skipping cleanup ???
    None Shall Pass!
    Complete the Wildbeast Den without letting extra enemies go through the door.
    • 🚩Stage 6. The Wildbeast Den
    • 💡Tip: Prevent Tusked Brawler from opening the gate on waves 2, 5, 8, 11, 14 (5 total)
    • 📝Trivia: Line by the Black Knight in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975).
    Crafting in the Mines
    Collect all three pork chops in the Wildbeast Den.
    • 🚩Stage 6. The Wildbeast Den
    • 💡Tip: Click on 3 Piglins
    • 📝Trivia: Piglin from "Minecraft" holding an iron pickaxe
🗺️Forsaken Canyon【7-11】
    We're Not Gonna Take It
    Kill 15 Twisted Sisters before they can spawn a Nightmare.
    • 🚩Stage 7. Bleak Valley or any 🗺️Forsaken Canyon stage
    • 💡Tip: Spawn kill them
    • 📝Trivia: Named after a 1982 song by the rock band Twisted Sister
    Promotion Denied
    Kill 30 Cult Priests before they transform into Abominations.
    • 🚩Stage 8. Carmine Mines or any next 🗺️Forsaken Canyon stage
    • 💡Tip: Stun interrupts transformation (e.g. tower: Ballista Outpost or hero: Vesper)
    Unbound Victory
    Complete the Wicked Crossing without any Nightmares turning into Armored Nightmares.
    • 🚩Stage 9. Wicked Crossing
    • 💡Tip: When magic circle lights up, transforms NightmaresArmored Nightmares; also Twisted Sisters can summon Nightmares, kill them first
    Pest Control
    Kill 300 Glarelings.
    • 🚩Stage 11. Canyon Plateau or any 🗺️The Void Beyond stage
    • 💡Tip: Easily done during gameplay (or 🚩11. Canyon Plateau 🛡️Heroic/✊Iron)
    All the Small Things
    Eliminate 182 Blinkers.
    • 🚩Stage 11. Canyon Plateau or any 🗺️The Void Beyond stage
    • 💡Tip: Easiest on 🚩15. The Eyesore Tower
    • 📝Trivia: Song by the punk band Blink-182
    Glory to the King
    Rescue the Linirean King.
    • 🚩Stage 11. Canyon Plateau
    Crystal Clear
    Get 3 stars on every stage of the Forsaken Canyon.
    • 🚩Stages 7-11

🧭Exploration & 🐣 Easter eggs
Note: Easter eggs are intentionally without screenshots for you to discover.
Just keep clicking on the little weird things on the map.
    Silver for Monsters
    Help Gerhart slay the tree monster.
    • 🚩Stage 7. Bleak Valley
    • 💡Tip: Click on skull-headed creature behind the trees
    • 📝Trivia: Leshy, a forest monster from "The Witcher" series (books & games); tap to summon Geralt to defeat it
    Crow Scarer
    Scare all the crows in Bleak Valley.
    • 🚩Stage 7. Bleak Valley
    • 💡Tip: Click on crows (5 in total)
    • 📝Trivia: Scarecrow scenes in movies/cartoons, like "The Wizard of Oz" ???
    Breaker of Chains
    Save the four elves in the Carmine Mines
    • 🚩Stage 8. Carmine Mines
    • 💡Tip: Kill 4× Taskmaster Abomination (waves: 1, 3, 5, 8), or it will keep healing; freed elves will join you
    • 📝Trivia: Daenerys Targaryen's "Breaker of Chains" title from "Game of Thrones", highlighting her role in freeing enslaved people
    Gem Spiller
    Break all of the gem baskets.
    • 🚩Stage 8. Carmine Mines
    • 💡Tip: Click 3 gem baskets = +30 coins ×2 (one drops into void)
    • 📝Trivia: Sonic the Hedgehog games, where smashing objects releases gems or rings everywhere ???
    Get the Party Started
    Solve the puzzle and summon the band.
    • 🚩Stage 10. Temple Courtyard
    • 💡Tip: Change 4 statues into "Y.M.C.A." shape
    • 📝Trivia: Short music played when The Band is summoned comes from "Y.M.C.A." (1978) by The Village People ➔ summons 4 of the 6 members:
      • David Hodo (Construction worker)
      • Felipe Rose (Native American)
      • Glenn Hughes (Leather man)
      • Victor Willis (Cop)
    Starlight
    Help Fredo and Sammy escape from the Giant Spider.
    • 🚩Stage 11. Canyon Plateau
    • 💡Tip: During 2nd wave, a person appears next to the 2 tunnels
    • 📝Trivia: Sam saves Frodo from Shelob in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003)
    You Shall Not Cast!
    Save King Denas without letting Seeress Mydrias cast projections in Impossible Difficulty
    • 🚩Stage 11. Canyon Plateau
    • 💡Tip: Activate green power (Soul Impact) on 💀Impossible
    • 📝Trivia: "You shall not pass!" by Gandalf in the film "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" (2001), also used by Arcane Wizard tower in the 1st Kingdom Rush game
      • Soul Impact ➔ 2nd spell in Kingdom Rush Vengeance
🗺️The Void Beyond【12-16】
    Turn a Blind Eye
    Kill 100 Corruption Spawns while they are under the effects of the Glare.
    • 🚩Stage 12. Blighted Farmlands or any 🗺️The Void Beyond stage
    • 💡Tip: Easiest on 🚩14. Corruption Valley or 🚩16. Hunger's Peak (with 2× Glare of the Overseer)
    One Shot at Glory
    Eliminate 10 enemies with a single Darkray Tower beam.
    • 🚩Stage 13. Desecrated Temple
    • 💡Tip: Easiest on ✊Iron with 2 Darkray Towers and lot of enemies
      • you can also build Melee Towers around the Darkray Tower to gather enemies nearby
    • 📝Trivia: Corrupted version of the Sunray Tower from Kingdom Rush: Frontiers, with Sunray Sorcerers turned into statues
    Crowd Control
    Complete the Corruption Valley without any Flesh Behemoth spawning from the pit.
    • 🚩Stage 14. Corruption Valley
    • 💡Tip: Build towers near the pit to keep Glarelings away ➔ 5 reaching pit spawn a Flesh Behemoth
    • 📝Trivia: Image references Garfield meme "Huh. I wonder who that’s for."
    Bye, Bye, Beautiful
    Defeat Seeres Mydrias
    • 🚩Stage 15. The Eyesore Tower
    Slippery Soldiers
    Complete The Eyesore Tower while preventing Mydrias from ensnaring your units.
    • 🚩Stage 15. The Eyesore Tower
    • 💡Tip: Boss casts spells that bind ground units ➔ move units when red rune appears on the ground
    • 📝Trivia: Achievement image shows an Agent dodging a tentacle in bullet-time style, like in "The Matrix" (1999)
    Conjuntivictory
    Defeat the Overseer.
    • 🚩Stage 16. Hunger's Peak
    • 📝Trivia: "Conjunctivitis" is a common eye infection
    Conqueror of the Void
    Get 3 stars on every stage of the Void Beyond.
    • 🚩Stages 12-16

🧭Exploration & 🐣 Easter eggs
Note: Easter eggs are intentionally without screenshots for you to discover.
Just keep clicking on the little weird things on the map.
    Weirder Things
    Help Ernie and Daston repel the Blinkers in the Blighted Farmlands.
    • 🚩Stage 12. Blighted Farmlands
    • 💡Tip: Click boy with binoculars next to the cabin with the large speaker, triggers guitarist on the roof
    • 📝Trivia: Mimics a scene from the final episode of "Stranger Things" Season 4
    Wobba-Lubba-Dub-Dub!
    Repair Nick and Marty's portal gun.
    • 🚩Stage 14. Corruption Valley
    • 💡Tip: Click 3× on Rick & Morty
    • 📝Trivia: Based on Rick Sanchez's catchphrase from "Rick and Morty" (2013); tap to make them portal:
      • 2nd appearance: Morty is replaced by Evil Morty
      • 3rd: normal Morty returns, joined by Mr Poopybutthole
    Take On Me
    Return Riff the Goblin to his home dimension.
    • 🚩Stage 15. The Eyesore Tower
    • 💡Tip: After 15th wave (end of level), click Riff the Goblin on the Boss Tower when he appears
    • 📝Trivia: Song by A-Ha ➔ teaser for Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance features similar music and Riff the Goblin
🏕️Undying Fury【17-19】
Mini-Campaign

    Tree Hugger
    Complete Misty Ruins with at least one Weirdwood standing.
    • 🚩Stage 17. Misty Ruins
    • 💡Tip: Keep Specters away from Weirdwood ➔ on the 3rd hit, it becomes a mini-boss
    Rust In Peace
    Complete a stage without allowing any Animated Armor to respawn.
    • 🚩Stage 18. Deepleaf Outpost
    • 💡Tip: Animated armor can be respawned by a Specter (usually on the top path)
      • Keep the Specter away from destroyed armor
      • Easiest on ✊Iron
    Spectral Fury
    Defeat Navira and stop the Revenant invasion.
    • 🚩Stage 19. Temple of the Fallen

🧭Exploration & 🐣 Easter eggs
Note: Easter eggs are intentionally without screenshots for you to discover.
Just keep clicking on the little weird things on the map.
    We Are All Mad Here
    Find the elusive cat in each Undying Fury campaign stage.
    • 🚩Stages 17-19
    • 💡Tip: One cat per level (3 in total)
    • 📝Trivia: A line by the Cheshire Cat in "Alice in Wonderland"
    Rock Beats... Rock?
    Make the statue win against itself.
    • 🚩Stage 19. Temple of the Fallen
    • 💡Tip: Tip: Only 🛡️Heroic or ✊Iron ➔ Click statue hand 3×
    • 📝Trivia: Statue is attempting to play Rock, Paper, Scissors
🏕️Ancient Hunger【20-22】
Mini-Campaign

    Scrambled Eggs
    Kill 50 crokinder before they hatch.
    • 🚩Stage 20. Arborean Hamlet
    • 💡Tip: Can be done in one go
    Saviour of the forest
    Win the stage without losing any arborean flowers.
    • 🚩Stage 20. Arborean Hamlet
    • 💡Tip: Protect both flowers
    See ya later, alligator
    Defeat Abominor, the devourer.
    • 🚩Stage 22. Starving Hollow
    • 📝Trivia: 1950s slang from song "See You Later, Alligator" ➔ reply: "After a while, crocodile."

🧭Exploration & 🐣 Easter eggs
Note: Easter eggs are intentionally without screenshots for you to discover.
Just keep clicking on the little weird things on the map.
    Smooth Oper-gator
    Help the friendly gator to start his boat.
    • 🚩Stage 21. The Sunken Ruins
    • 💡Tip: Click on the boat
    • 📝Trivia: "Wally Gator", the cheerful cartoon alligator from Hanna-Barbera's 1962 series, who's always trying to break out of the zoo and explore new adventures
    Hail to the K, baby!
    Find the crocodile king.
    • 🚩Stage 22. Starving Hollow
    • 💡Tip: Click 3× on the crown and robes
    • 📝Trivia: "Hail to the King, baby!", paraphrasing the final line spoken by Ash in the film "Army Of Darkness" (1992)
📦Colossal Dwarfare ❰DLC❱【23-27】
    Factory Strike
    Complete Frantic Assembly without letting Grymbeard activate the conveyor belt.
    • 🚩Stage 24. Frantic Assembly
    • 💡Tip: Waves 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 ➔ click on Grymbeard, this keeps the conveyor belt closed. Unlocks at the start of the final boss
    Garbage Disposal
    Eliminate 10 Mad Tinkerers before they can spawn Scrap Drones.
    • 🚩Stage 25. Frantic Assembly or any next stage
    Domo Arigato
    Get 20 enemies crushed by the giant fist in the Colossal Core.
    • 🚩Stage 25. Colossal Core
    • 💡Tip: Easiest to get on 🛡️Heroic
    Self-Unemployment
    Defeat Grymbeard and stop the construction of the war machine.
    • 🚩Stage 27. Dominion Dome

🧭Exploration & 🐣 Easter eggs
Note: Easter eggs are intentionally without screenshots for you to discover.
Just keep clicking on the little weird things on the map.
    Obliterate!
    Find the pieces of the forbidden robot in each Colossal Dwarfare stage.
    • 🚩Stages 23-27
    • 💡Tip: One robot element per level (5 in total)
    Mechanical Burnout
    Overfeed the machine in the Darksteel Gates.
    • 🚩Stage 23. Darksteel Gates
    • 💡Tip: Just click on machine
    Kept You Waiting, Huh?
    Find the sneaky soldier in the Colossal Core.
    • 🚩Stage 25. Colossal Core
    • 💡Tip: Click cardboard box
    • 📝Trivia: Iconic line used by Solid Snake in the "Metal Gear Solid" series, greeting players after a wait or sneaky entrance.
    The Gift of Life
    Free the cloning experiment in the Replication Chamber.
    • 🚩Stage 26. Replication Chamber
    • 💡Tip: Click on green tubes
    • 📝Trivia: Classic sci-fi stories and cloning movies
    Disturbing the Peace
    Interrupt the workers' lunch break in the Dominion Dome.
    • 🚩Stage 27. Dominion Dome
    • 💡Tip: Only 🛡️Heroic or ✊Iron
    Shut Your Mouth!
    Complete Dominion Dome while keeping Grymbeard from setting your towers on fire.
    • 🚩Stage 27. Dominion Dome
    • 💡Tip: Spam-click and spray both sides to interrupt
🏕️Arachnophobia【28-30】
Mini-Campaign

    No Flying Zone.
    Kill 50 Ballooning Spiders.
    • 🚩Stage 28. Defiled Temple
    • 💡Tip: Can be done in one go
    A Farewell to Arms
    Defeat Mygale, the Spider Queen.
    • 🚩Stage 30. The Forgotten Throne

🧭Exploration & 🐣 Easter eggs
Note: Easter eggs are intentionally without screenshots for you to discover.
Just keep clicking on the little weird things on the map.
    Unfriendly Neighbor.
    Find the secrets of the mysterious spider person.
    • 🚩Stage 28. Defiled Temple
    • 💡Tip: Click 4× on dangling spider person
    • 📝Trivia: Spider-Man, the “friendly neighborhood” superhero, twisted into a not-so-friendly mysterious spider. Tapping triggers a colorful, blocky glitch-like animation ("Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", 2018):
      • 1st tap: Spider-Man logo
      • 2nd: a pig, referencing Spider-Ham
      • 3rd: an Ogre from the 1st Kingdom Rush game
    A Cocoon of Surprises
    Help Fredo escape.
    • 🚩Stage 29. Breeding Chamber
    • 💡Tip: Click 3× on dangling cocoon
    • 📝Trivia: Frodo from "The Lord of the Rings", needing help to get out of a cocoon.
      Also 4 webbed bundles include Trivias:
      • arachnid Arathim race from "The Dark Crystal" (1982)
      • Leaf Lover Beer mug from "Deep Rock Galactic"
      • Anub'arak from "Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos"
      • Hornet's needle weapon from "Hollow Knight"
    Lucus the Spider.
    Play with Lucus until he’s happy.
    • 🚩Stage 30. The Forgotten Throne
    • 💡Tip: Click 3× on the poking eyes
    • 📝Trivia: Animated web series "Lucas the Spider" (2017), featuring a cute, friendly spider who loves to play and cheer people up
📦Wukong's Journey ❰DLC❱【31-35】🔜

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2 Comments
RalfekS  [author] 1 Sep @ 8:12am 
@Nutty_Menendez oh true, can’t unsee it now → updated
Nutty_Menendez 31 Aug @ 10:07pm 
i think the picture from "crowd control" is a reference to a garfield meme, "huh. i wonder who that's for"