Kingdom Rush Alliance Impossible Hero Challenge - 17. Misty Ruins Iron

We have an extreme anomaly here in the iron mode - a trivial map.  As in it's not worth assigning grades for, just like the initial maps at the beginning of the game.  I can't believe we actually have a map like this in a bonus campaign - especially one that comes with the "high difficulty" tag - but there just isn't much going on here.  It's a case where the solution is pretty obvious - use Demon Pits to block, Rocket Gunners for the DPS, and your hero helps out where needed.  I'm really shocked, but it is what it is.  I'm hopeful based on what I've heard on the KR Reddit that the rest of this campaign will redeem itself from this embarrassment.

Kingdom Rush Alliance Impossible Hero Challenge - 17. Misty Ruins Iron

Kingdom Rush Alliance Impossible Hero Challenge - 17. Misty Ruins Heroic

This is the kind of heroic mode that the main campaign is sorely lacking - not just a redux of campaign mode and with a significant difficulty bump.  Now to be fair the difficulty spike doesn't occur until wave 5.  Before that the only real risk is getting bad RNG with the Dust Cryptids and one leaking through.  Waves 5 and 6 though definitely make their mark with the Deathwoods.  There's largely no way to have finished taking down wave 5's Deathwood before the next two arrive in wave 6, so it's all about your heroes being able to hold down the fort at the end, giving your towers enough time to finish everything off.

Impressions

Grades are pretty standard and unsurprising here, which is understandable given that the hard part at the end is a very general test of hero ability.  You have two or three major enemies with several smaller mobs trying to push through, so it doesn't play to any one strength of heroes.  Either they help DPS everything down efficiently, help stall the horde long enough for towers to do the work, or else tank the Deathwoods.  This is probably about as normal as grades get for Alliance.

Final Grades

• Vesper - B
• Raelyn - C+
• Nyru - B+
• Torres - B-
• Anya - B
• Grimson - C+
• Broden - A+
• Therien - A-
• Onagro - B
• Warhead - B+
• Lumenir - A+
• Kosmyr - A

Kingdom Rush Alliance Impossible Hero Challenge - 17. Misty Ruins Heroic