We bounce back from campaign mode to a pretty trivial heroic mode. I believe that a single hero solution here is probably possible, but honestly I just didn't have it in me to spend the time searching for it. I'm feeling so terribly behind on this series with the recent release of the second Alliance DLC that I desperately just want to get caught up. Fortunately I have no intentions of playing the imminent new game, Kingdom Rush Battles, so it's release cycle should buy me the time I need to get caught up on the franchise. In case you're wondering why I'm not going to play it, it's a PvP-focused game, and I'm avoiding PvP games in this stage of my life like the plague for multiple reasons I won't bore you with right now.
Right, back to the map. As usual, the only tricky part are the Winged Croks coming in from the top right. Two level four Royal Archers are almost enough to deal with them by themselves, so as long as your hero can contribute a little something to taking them down - hero spell or otherwise - everything else is pretty straightforward. There's only one exit to deal with, thankfully, so we load up the choke point with Tricannons with Bombardment, and I can't tell you how much that warms my heart. Even Hydras can't withstand three Tricannons constantly raining death on them, and for most of our heroes we don't even really need to upgrade the Paladins much if at all - easy peasy.
Impressions
Since it was pretty easy using two heroes everyone gets a chance to pad their GPA a little. In case you haven't figured it out, I've really stopped trying to account for using the second hero in the grades. It was just getting too hard to adjudicate and account for, and the result is that everyone but Stregi lands in 'B' tier or better, with quite a number in 'A' tier. That includes Anya and Warhead, which is a bit of a rarity for them. Even Raelyn earns a rare (for her) 'B+'.
Final Grades
- Vesper - B
- Raelyn - B+
- Nyru - B+
- Torres - B
- Anya - A
- Grimson - B+
- Broden - A+
- Therien - A-
- Onagro - A
- Warhead - A-
- Lumenir - A+
- Kosmyr - A+
- Stregi - C+
- Bonehart - A+
