Kingdom Rush Vengeance (Steam) Impossible Hero Challenge - Hammerhold Streets Campaign

We have another really good challenge here that will make you sweat and work for the win for sure.  The waves are designed to push your build to the breaking point for sure - hordes of Assassins, Djinnis, Djinnis followed by Sand Mystics, large groups of Flying Carpets, etc.  And then of course this level introduces the War Elephants - the first mini-boss we've had in a game since Cerberus in the original Kingdom Rush.  Now these things are no Cerberus - they move slow and their damage is negligible - but they still require a lot of magical damage to put down.

For all that though, this map is what I've called in the past "standard hard".  There are no particular tricks involved, it's just about putting together a solid build plan appropriate to the waves and then executing with good micro and management of Soul Impact and your hero spell.  It's just that it ratchets up the "hard" a notch or two over other maps.

Impressions

The "standard hard" is reflected in the grades this time around for sure.  Our free heroes get 'C's, which is completely unsurprising, and Margosa joins them as this DLC has been particularly unsuited to her.  We have 'B's on the rest of the top row except for Beresad of course, and Jun'pai and Grosh earn 'B's on the bottom row, which again isn't surprising as they're the bottom row heroes most likely to slip from 'A's first when the difficulty gets upped.

All around the heroes performed just about as well as you would expect.  I didn't explicitly tie 'A's and 'B's to whether a hero could insta-call every wave like I have previously, but there still is a strong correlation.  I do feel Jack O'Lantern deserves a special call out here though.  His ability to teleport, drop additional blocking fodder, and do AoE explosive damage really came in clutch, and he definitely had one of the most solid performances on this map, even rivaling the dragons.

Final Grades

• Veruk - C
• Asra - C
• Oloch - C
• Margosa - C
• Mortemis - B
• Tramin - B
• Jigou - B
• Beresad - A
• Doom Tank SG-11 - A
• Jun'pai - B
• Eiskalt - A
• Murglun - A
• Dianyun - A
• Jack O'Lantern - A
• Grosh - B

Kingdom Rush Vengeance Impossible Hero Challenge - Hammerhold Streets Campaign