Orcs must Die

Two achievements in one: easy to do!

Just did Chokepoint on war mage for the Tunnel Vision achievement and picked up the No Traps For You! achievement at the same time.

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Apparently, archers count as one trap type for the former and don't count as traps at all for the latter. The beginning can be a bit hairy, just use the wind belt to blow large numbers off the side of the bridge into the lava and you're laughing. The archers don't have flaming arrows because I went for the elemental weaver instead, but nothing really gets close to them so that's cool :).

Also an excellent level to get the Great Balls of Fire! achievement. Make a back & forth with barricades and tar traps and launch fireballs into the corners to hit the most orcs. Managed to kill every mob on the level with fireballs alone, got the achievement around wave 7.

Hit my 30k today, all I have left to do is complete acts 2 and 3 on nightmare (currently done the first 16 levels with 5 skulls, Killing Fields next and DLC afterwards, of course) and there's another one to link accounts which I haven't set up yet and then I'm all done - 100% skulls on nightmare, 100% achievements :). Now I just hope they release a ton of DLC for it. A castle editor would be awesome.
 
I bought this a few weeks ago in the steam sale for about £3 and I thought it was very good value for money and great fun as I hadn't played a tower defence game that wasn't in a web browser before.
 
Yeah, finished this on warmage difficulty and had a blast with it just before Xmas. Filled about 9 hours of time according to Steam and was fun the whole way through. Would recommend it for around a tenner, but I don't feel the incentive to go back in and play through again to 5-star the few levels I missed or go for a high difficulty level playthrough.
 
I dunno, currently working on Nightmare and finding the challenge a lot of fun. Hoping that they continue to release a lot of DLC for this game :)
 
it does look quite good tbh, Haven't played the demo yet, but picked the game up for free from Sapphire select club just now :p
 
Eulogy said:
I've got a bunch of high scoring videos on Youtube from Warmage difficulty up on my Steam forum thread here:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2306855

My game name is Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Still recording more all the time, just takes a bit of time to get a good recording done sometimes, especially depending on the level.


My top score is just over a mill on The Tower NM :P

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/648749446929851293/A6DDB268FA708F16E6637EB0707E3BE146FEC425/
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jeez ur on my freinds list and your scores are insane, link above is dead to vids :(
 
Deadbeat said:
Two achievements in one: easy to do!

Just did Chokepoint on war mage for the Tunnel Vision achievement and picked up the No Traps For You! achievement at the same time.

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Apparently, archers count as one trap type for the former and don't count as traps at all for the latter. The beginning can be a bit hairy, just use the wind belt to blow large numbers off the side of the bridge into the lava and you're laughing. The archers don't have flaming arrows because I went for the elemental weaver instead, but nothing really gets close to them so that's cool :).

Also an excellent level to get the Great Balls of Fire! achievement. Make a back & forth with barricades and tar traps and launch fireballs into the corners to hit the most orcs. Managed to kill every mob on the level with fireballs alone, got the achievement around wave 7.

Hit my 30k today, all I have left to do is complete acts 2 and 3 on nightmare (currently done the first 16 levels with 5 skulls, Killing Fields next and DLC afterwards, of course) and there's another one to link accounts which I haven't set up yet and then I'm all done - 100% skulls on nightmare, 100% achievements :). Now I just hope they release a ton of DLC for it. A castle editor would be awesome.
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That's the easiest map to get the huge kill streak achievement. In that middle bit, put down a block of barricades, so there's a thin channel in the middle for them to walk through.

Now lay down tar where they'll be running through it. Pick the 3rd weaver and choose the 'magic costs 30% less' or something like that.. And run in using the flame ring.

You can get around 50-55 kill streak by the 3rd/4th round. Only works on War Mage.


I've recently finished all maps in Nightmare with 5 skulls, the final map of the DLC is really hard to get 5 skulls
 
Awesome game, got it when it was in the sales, had lost some motivation to play but reading this has sparked it off again :) got to get 5 skulls on all now !
 
I have a 50% off Orcs Must Die voucher on steam. Free to anyone who will use it. My steam name is the same as my forum name.
 
Deadbeat said:
hit a wall with Hard Climb on Nightmare - just can't seem to get it done right :(. Anyone had much luck?
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Block off one entrance, so they all have to run around the back to join the other door.

Then block off the opposite set of stairs (you won't have enough blocks at first to completely do it in the first wave). Now set some tar and wall grinders with blocks to channel them into it.

Up above, add tons of archers.

On the remaining set of stairs, put in the swining mace + tar. Watch out of flyers!.

You'll need ice, flame and the wind ring too.

Personally, I always use the middle fairy woman for the extra money from trap kills and fire arrows
 
Aye, steel weaver is my favourite. I can normally do well enough for the first few waves, only in wave 6 or 7 I always seem to let a couple of kobolds through. I prefer the lightning ring to the fire though, its AoE is better and leaves just enough mana to get off the odd ice/wind cast when it's needed.

Wall grinders would help with the kobolds of course (though I found out in the final level of the DLC that, contrary to popular belief, eventually they will get stuck on kobolds alone - just after a hell of a lot have been through :)), but they tend to turn up in the middle of a wave when the griders are already jammed from all the orcs passing through. I suppose dropping a fire line could really help with that...
 
The trick with the grinders is to keep them clear of orcs. If the orcs are coming thick/heavy switch to the bow to thin them out as much as possible. The grinder won't unjam when the orcs are on top of it so you can lose a lot of score by having it jammed too much.

Also with the archers, the more orcs there are the more archers you should get, adjust based on orc numbers :)
 
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If anyone wants the DLC for this game and doesn't have it, I have a couple of spare codes here. First come first serve:

Lost Adventures: GMG9W-PB7EI-VLRQA
Artifacts of Power: LR23J-9N5YA-JD9HJ

Activate on Steam from the Games >> Activate a Product on Steam menu option.
 
Eulogy said:
If anyone wants the DLC for this game and doesn't have it, I have a couple of spare codes here. First come first serve:

Lost Adventures: GMG9W-PB7EI-VLRQA
Artifacts of Power: LR23J-9N5YA-JD9HJ

Activate on Steam from the Games >> Activate a Product on Steam menu option.
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Wow! Thanks man... Thought it would be long gone seeing as its been an hour since you put em up, cheers matey :)
 
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