So I downloaded Blood and Glory about a week ago and I haven't been able to stop playing it yet. There's something very addicting about it to me. I finally beat the final tournament, and that was difficult. So I thought I'd share a little of my tactics and strategies.
One of the wonderful things about this game is that it is intensely skill based. It may take you days to beat it the first time, but the second time will only take a couple of hours.
Coins & Real Money
So I'll mention first that, like many games, B&G has items you can purchase for real money (by buying credits). In this game, it's particularly ridiculous because the best gear will cost you in the realm of $500! It's a stupid proposition, but I guess they wouldn't put it up there if people didn't occasionally do it. You can also get credits by downloading all sorts of stupid apps. I suggest you just leave the credits alone.
Some have complained about the free gear being too weak to make the game playable, but I disagree. It just makes it a challenge. They've also said that money gain is too slow. I also disagree because it forces you to not only work hard for you gear, but also plan out your purchases so you have money to buy better stuff down the road. Ok. On to the strategy.
Strategy
If you buy things incrementally, that is, buy the next best item when you get the money, this game will take you forever. Two reasons: you can't sell back your old item when you upgrade, and opponentss only give you about 1/10th of the revenue per kill after you kill them the first time. This means money from your first kills need to be spent wisely.
My strategy was to only buy one thing: Axe Saervius. The objective in the end is to buy the Torvus Mace, the most powerful weapon, but that will be well after you beat the final opponent. An experienced player can generate enough cash with the starting set-up to afford this. And it's powerful enough to take you to the end of the game. Of course, this means you're a one hit kill. On the up side, this forces you to get good fast. I'll mention again that this strategy is purely so that you can afford the Torvus Mace in the quickest way possible. I actually took the starting gear all the way up through Tournament VIII. But I only had to save a little (about 20K as opposed to 80K) after Tournament XII before I could get TM.
Other strategies:
I wouldn't suggest trying to beat the game with less than the Axe Saervius. It can be done, but it will be difficult. I'm not sure how well Armor and Helms stack up in the final tournament, but I'm guessing they'll only let you take a couple of extra hits. By the time I finished, I had earned about 88K. That's only 10K above Torvus Mace, so you obviously can't buy it outright without redoing some Tournaments.
Helms: You can also purchase helms which can provide a nice exp and coin bonus; however, experience only gives you stat increase, which are too tiny to count, and the coin bonus will take for ever to pay off the cost of the helmet. The coin bonus is only on Win Reward, not Crowd Bonus, and not Tournament Total Rewards.
If your only objective is to beat Tournament XII. A good strategy would be: Buy Crista Laeviter (6800) during T-4, Buy Bloody Mace (13800) during T-6, Buy Axe Saervius (32300) during T-10, and Buy Tenebrae Armor (23800) during T-12. You can put stat points in attack until you get the Bloody Mace, but the long term advantage would be to sink them all into Health.
Stat points:
All stat points from leveling up, make a very insignificant difference. Probably the best overall is health. I only used attack because it made the biggest difference when I was trying to beat Tournament VIII with the starting sword.
Tactics
Tools at your disposal.
Block: Useless, they chew right through your shield in the higher levels. Money poorly spent.
Parry: Very difficult. You might as well just dodge.
Dodge: Primary defensive maneuver. Usually you dodge to the side from which the attack is coming, but there are some exceptions.
Special Attack: Stuns your opponent, gained successfully dodging and hitting your opponent.
Combos: Very important if you want to deal the maximum amount of damage.
Memorize their combos.
Memorizing combos takes a long time, but gives you almost complete control of the situation. Unfortunately there are some enemy combos that start out the same, so it's impossible to tell which one your in until they slit your gizzard. This is suggested for particularly difficult opponents. It can help to write them down, too.
Be quick on your feet.
Purely reacting is a very necessary but it takes a while for you to get good at it. You have to be able to read your opponents cues. It's very important that you focus and try to avoid anticipating their next attack (leave that to the memorizing technique). Some opponents have a bunch of Left-Right-Left attacks. This makes their Left-Right-Right attacks particularly brutal.
Use your combos!
The quickest way to attack is just backhand them 6 times in a row (you can occasionally get 7 if you're lucky). But compare that to Tornado slash which has four hits and a triple damage finish for 7 hits altogether (if you're fast enough you can start the combo out with a quick backhand to get 8 hits of damage). You can do this on just about every attack after Tournament IV. It also usually guarantees you'll have a full special attack. So you'll have 15 attacks per opponent combo. Plus, combos give you a higher crowd bonus!
Tornado Slaughter.
This is a bug that can help you do some great damage. Basically if you do the Tornado Slash and then immediately use your special attack, your first hit of your special attack will take triple damage. So, ideally, it could look like this:
Backhand, Up, Up, Down, Down, Up (triple damage), Special Attack, Up (triple damage), Up, Up, Down, Down, Up (triple damage). This gives you 17 attacks per enemy combo & a quadruple boost to your Crowd Bonus (integral on first battles).
Note:
When your opponent gets stunned because you take him to 3/4th health, say, you can still take advantage of the Tornado Slaugher. Just hit the skip button then the special attack button really quick, and your next attack will be triple damage. Also, it can be hard to pull off a Tornado Slash the second time around. So you could just go with an Earth Strike and do almost as much damage.
Note their health
Opponents have particular levels of health, where they need to take a need a knee (it can be at 3/4, 2/3, 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4) This can really screw up your combos, so plan for it. If you know they're about 3-4 hits away, use Spin-Attack. If they're 5 hits away, use Tornado Slash, skip the scene, Special Attack and slaughter them. Also, if they're very, very close to one of these levels, or nearly dead, you can Graze them by attacking in between their swings. This does about 1/5 normal damage, and is particularly dangerous so be careful.
Other systems
Some phones won't have Blood & Glory posted on the Market Place. However, I've heard you can google some reviews and use the smartphone icon apps and they'll bring it up for your phone to download. Keep in mind, the game is fairly intensive on your hardware. Up to about 75MB I think, and it really uses up your processor. Post if you have any other suggestions for people who have problems.
On tablets, the money values are different. They're actually cheaper. Which makes it easier.
Hope this helps!
One of the wonderful things about this game is that it is intensely skill based. It may take you days to beat it the first time, but the second time will only take a couple of hours.
Coins & Real Money
So I'll mention first that, like many games, B&G has items you can purchase for real money (by buying credits). In this game, it's particularly ridiculous because the best gear will cost you in the realm of $500! It's a stupid proposition, but I guess they wouldn't put it up there if people didn't occasionally do it. You can also get credits by downloading all sorts of stupid apps. I suggest you just leave the credits alone.
Some have complained about the free gear being too weak to make the game playable, but I disagree. It just makes it a challenge. They've also said that money gain is too slow. I also disagree because it forces you to not only work hard for you gear, but also plan out your purchases so you have money to buy better stuff down the road. Ok. On to the strategy.
Strategy
If you buy things incrementally, that is, buy the next best item when you get the money, this game will take you forever. Two reasons: you can't sell back your old item when you upgrade, and opponentss only give you about 1/10th of the revenue per kill after you kill them the first time. This means money from your first kills need to be spent wisely.
My strategy was to only buy one thing: Axe Saervius. The objective in the end is to buy the Torvus Mace, the most powerful weapon, but that will be well after you beat the final opponent. An experienced player can generate enough cash with the starting set-up to afford this. And it's powerful enough to take you to the end of the game. Of course, this means you're a one hit kill. On the up side, this forces you to get good fast. I'll mention again that this strategy is purely so that you can afford the Torvus Mace in the quickest way possible. I actually took the starting gear all the way up through Tournament VIII. But I only had to save a little (about 20K as opposed to 80K) after Tournament XII before I could get TM.
Other strategies:
I wouldn't suggest trying to beat the game with less than the Axe Saervius. It can be done, but it will be difficult. I'm not sure how well Armor and Helms stack up in the final tournament, but I'm guessing they'll only let you take a couple of extra hits. By the time I finished, I had earned about 88K. That's only 10K above Torvus Mace, so you obviously can't buy it outright without redoing some Tournaments.
Helms: You can also purchase helms which can provide a nice exp and coin bonus; however, experience only gives you stat increase, which are too tiny to count, and the coin bonus will take for ever to pay off the cost of the helmet. The coin bonus is only on Win Reward, not Crowd Bonus, and not Tournament Total Rewards.
If your only objective is to beat Tournament XII. A good strategy would be: Buy Crista Laeviter (6800) during T-4, Buy Bloody Mace (13800) during T-6, Buy Axe Saervius (32300) during T-10, and Buy Tenebrae Armor (23800) during T-12. You can put stat points in attack until you get the Bloody Mace, but the long term advantage would be to sink them all into Health.
Stat points:
All stat points from leveling up, make a very insignificant difference. Probably the best overall is health. I only used attack because it made the biggest difference when I was trying to beat Tournament VIII with the starting sword.
Tactics
Tools at your disposal.
Block: Useless, they chew right through your shield in the higher levels. Money poorly spent.
Parry: Very difficult. You might as well just dodge.
Dodge: Primary defensive maneuver. Usually you dodge to the side from which the attack is coming, but there are some exceptions.
Special Attack: Stuns your opponent, gained successfully dodging and hitting your opponent.
Combos: Very important if you want to deal the maximum amount of damage.
Memorize their combos.
Memorizing combos takes a long time, but gives you almost complete control of the situation. Unfortunately there are some enemy combos that start out the same, so it's impossible to tell which one your in until they slit your gizzard. This is suggested for particularly difficult opponents. It can help to write them down, too.
Be quick on your feet.
Purely reacting is a very necessary but it takes a while for you to get good at it. You have to be able to read your opponents cues. It's very important that you focus and try to avoid anticipating their next attack (leave that to the memorizing technique). Some opponents have a bunch of Left-Right-Left attacks. This makes their Left-Right-Right attacks particularly brutal.
Use your combos!
The quickest way to attack is just backhand them 6 times in a row (you can occasionally get 7 if you're lucky). But compare that to Tornado slash which has four hits and a triple damage finish for 7 hits altogether (if you're fast enough you can start the combo out with a quick backhand to get 8 hits of damage). You can do this on just about every attack after Tournament IV. It also usually guarantees you'll have a full special attack. So you'll have 15 attacks per opponent combo. Plus, combos give you a higher crowd bonus!
Tornado Slaughter.
This is a bug that can help you do some great damage. Basically if you do the Tornado Slash and then immediately use your special attack, your first hit of your special attack will take triple damage. So, ideally, it could look like this:
Backhand, Up, Up, Down, Down, Up (triple damage), Special Attack, Up (triple damage), Up, Up, Down, Down, Up (triple damage). This gives you 17 attacks per enemy combo & a quadruple boost to your Crowd Bonus (integral on first battles).
Note:
When your opponent gets stunned because you take him to 3/4th health, say, you can still take advantage of the Tornado Slaugher. Just hit the skip button then the special attack button really quick, and your next attack will be triple damage. Also, it can be hard to pull off a Tornado Slash the second time around. So you could just go with an Earth Strike and do almost as much damage.
Note their health
Opponents have particular levels of health, where they need to take a need a knee (it can be at 3/4, 2/3, 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4) This can really screw up your combos, so plan for it. If you know they're about 3-4 hits away, use Spin-Attack. If they're 5 hits away, use Tornado Slash, skip the scene, Special Attack and slaughter them. Also, if they're very, very close to one of these levels, or nearly dead, you can Graze them by attacking in between their swings. This does about 1/5 normal damage, and is particularly dangerous so be careful.
Other systems
Some phones won't have Blood & Glory posted on the Market Place. However, I've heard you can google some reviews and use the smartphone icon apps and they'll bring it up for your phone to download. Keep in mind, the game is fairly intensive on your hardware. Up to about 75MB I think, and it really uses up your processor. Post if you have any other suggestions for people who have problems.
On tablets, the money values are different. They're actually cheaper. Which makes it easier.
Hope this helps!
