finndo77
Android Expert
I use the upgraded flame towers at corners where the enemies have to spend 7 squares within range of a single tower, the inferno does the most damage there (I always stick a slow tower, max upgrade just before the flame, so the unit spends extra long right under the heat. while the rockets are shooting it from afar.
The key to the Jeeps is to make them "turn" the more squares they move in a straight line the farther they travel away from your rocket towers, preventing the towers from getting more than 1 or 2 shots in per tower.
once you get up to 150 - 250 range you start spending the entire game in FF and not really watching. get your "pattern" down, and get your starting cash up, so you can lay enough down before the first 6 waves go through and then sit back and watch/upgrade.
Also once you start hitting negative upgrades you probably will super-power yourself and layout the entire map before 12 waves pass through, and then set your phone down and go do something else, just checking back later.
Also, an FYI on the negative upgrades, it starts when they hit 250-300 million or so, but to take advantage of it properly, you need to get 2 in the negatives, so you can bounce the money around enough to upgrade everything you want without getting stuck with no points and some massively high upgrade costs. there is no avoiding the negative issue and you cannot continue playing if you do not upgrade again after hitting it.
I have attached an Open Document format spreadsheet with my maps I made for this game (all blank templates for you to print and layout maps on), I used it to find the most efficient map layouts for each main board (A0003 on VR gives you the basic map and the most points for winning afaik). What I did was to create 3 stages of deployment, the layout of the sheets gives you one cell per square on the map, in case the columns/rows are messed up when you open it. there are 6 maps per page, and I designate the top (held in landscape mode) to be waves 1-20/25ish, the middle maps are waves 25-60 and the bottom are waves 60-100. fill each one out with where you want to be by the end of that last wave (20/25, 60, and 100), then I totaled up the costs and quantity per type of tower for each "stage of the map" and I did a bunch of these trying to figure out the maximum number of squares I could make the ground units travel through at the lowest cost per stage. this system worked great for me until I hit the negative cap on upgrades and got greedy... now I setup 4 SAM's 4 max mortar, 2 max rockets and about 6 max slow, and plug my phone in to charge while I go do something else. it take s along time even in FF to finish the board, but I never lose 1 life. I have stopped upgrading and am trying to see what level I need to get to where I actually have to pay attention again.
currently I am at difficulty 1070 with the following upgrade levels:
402
405
217
401
405
502
238
225
629
the bullet upgrade, health upgrade, and flame burn are worthless at the high levels, put your money in artillery reloads (affects SAM's and mortars in one upgrade) and cash until you hit the negative numbers, then work up your damage. I use the normal gun turrets to guide enemy units in places where it is not worth putting a more expensive tower (anywhere the range goes off the screen)
I've attached some cell camera shots of the ones I made before I hit the negative upgrades. Not sure which was my preferred, but it will give you some examples at least. sorry about the quality, I don't have a printer/scanner right now, and did them in pencil (lots of erasing, and on paper, not the computer so I could work on them a bit at my old job without covering my work on the screen.
well, it looks like the android forums database is being backup right now, I cannot upload the images, will try again in a few hours.
HA! I think the file was too large, worked fine after I reduced the size...
