Deskop Tower Defense - Orgahs League

[HughTower]

I'm sure as you're all mighty men of the world that you've come across this great browser game, but I thought it might be fun to start a little high score group going in the Gameroom here.

Desktop Tower Defence (http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/)

or if the linky don't work, cut & paste this, http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/

Play the game on Medium difficulty, & if you choose to submit your score, enter your Orgah name, & when it asks you if you'd like to put it in a group, enter 'Orgahs'.

High Score League
1 Sasaki - 7162
2 Masy - 7052
3 HughTower - 6953
4 Faust| - 6913
5 sapi - 6552
6 pannonian - 6522
7 Crazed Rabbit - 5884
8 Ichigo - 5627
9 Papewaio - 5581
10 Ituralde - 4884
11 CountArach - 3615
12 Xdeathfire - 2972
13 shlin28 - 2377
14 rdece.jabolko - 2266
15 pevergreen - 1964
16 Xiahou - 1841
17 Ignoramus - 1720
18 Caius Flaminius - 676



Good hunting!

[Tamur]

I get a server-not-found error?

[Warmaster Horus]

Same here.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Works for me.

Sasaki: 51

[Csargo]

91 bleh

[Caius]

76 :bigcry:

[Warmaster Horus]

Works now.
score: 188

[Csargo]

566

[HughTower]

The trick is to build a maze. You can see what others have done get their high scores through one of the menus.

Put 'Orgahs' in the group field after you submit your score, & it'll add you to the 'Orgahs' leaderboard automatically. Once the leaderboard gets a few more names in, I'll copy it into the top of the thread.

[Csargo]

The trick is to build a maze. You can see what others have done get their high scores through one of the menus.

Put 'Orgahs' in the group field after you submit your score, & it'll add you to the 'Orgahs' leaderboard automatically. Once the leaderboard gets a few more names in, I'll copy it into the top of the thread.

Mines on there.

[HughTower]

Mines on there.

Yes, it is.

Here, have a gold star for good behaviour.

:cheerleader:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

1060. Didn't submit it though.

[Csargo]

1626 Booyah!!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

1262. The flying guys got me in the end.

[HughTower]

If you're not prepared for the flying guys, you're {insert expletive here}.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

haha, yeah. Got the flying guys figured out, you just have to build your anti-air things in the right place.

Last setup I tried was real good against the little guys but the bosses pwned me every time. Guess I need more of the high damage pieces and a better maze.

Is there any use for the "stun" tower? I haven't used one yet.

[Csargo]

haha, yeah. Got the flying guys figured out, you just have to build your anti-air things in the right place.

Last setup I tried was real good against the little guys but the bosses pwned me every time. Guess I need more of the high damage pieces and a better maze.

Is there any use for the "stun" tower? I haven't used one yet.

They slow the little guys down.

[HughTower]

They slow the little guys down.

And deal a shedload of damage. Downside is they have a small range & expensive to upgrade. I find the best place for them is on the point of a hairpin corner.

[Csargo]

2840

Movin On Up To The East Side!!

[Csargo]

Those airships are killing me even though I have 2-3 rocket lauching things on each end plus in the middle. I can't seem to upgrade my towers fast enough either. Is their anyway to select more than one tower to upgrade?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

2616 and it didn't send arrg

[scotchedpommes]

Page refuses to load, regardless of link pasting.

[Cimmerian]

woah awesome game.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Hell yeah!

Although I missed the level 49 boss.

How do those people get 7-8000+ scores?

[Somebody Else]

2825

[Crazed Rabbit]

5260! Woo, second place! And on only my third try, too! ~;p


How do those people get 7-8000+ scores?

They must push the levels through early.

CR

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Got 7060 on the alternate mode where you start with 4k and build your maze. You get bonus points for starting the next level early, I racked up lots of those. Real funny seeing the effect of an icbm tower on the first few waves.

Still haven't figured out how to beat the level 49 bosses. Maybe if I hit the button so the fly over while the ground boss is still walking along. *goes to try* It worked. Got one of them. Because of the way I'd structured my maze the other got away though.

The typhoon towers seem by far the most valuable. One of the air towers is nice to have, the missile towers are nice early but weak late, can't see the point of the other two at all.

[Csargo]

https://img170.imageshack.us/img170/2614/booyahdm8.jpg

[HughTower]

League updated, though I'm just doing single best scores now.

If you want to appear on it, make sure you're adding 'Orgahs' to the group name field after you press submit.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Cracked 6000. My main problem seems to be the spawn guys getting knocked through my maze and escaping:

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/5516/834615in7.gif

The guys coming from the left come down the first alley and get knocked through that wall. Need to fix that I guess. Also think I let some planes through early on.

Got both the level 49 bosses though.

Blizzard towers are dead useful and cheap too.

8 typhoons :D

[Csargo]

I can't get past 2800 I guess my mazes aren't good enough.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Pellet towers are a waste.

Typhoon towers do 320 damage a shot and shoot much faster.

[Csargo]

Pellet towers are a waste.

Typhoon towers do 320 damage a shot and shoot much faster.

Typoon?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Fully upgraded squirt tower.

Redid my map so that when the spawns split they get knocked backwards instead of forwards. Worked out ok, but I slipped up and let some planes through again. Still don't see how those people break 8000.

[Csargo]

The four rocket tower works wonders on planes. The Da towers work well on large groups of guys.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Haha! I have seized back second place!
5741 points and 18 lives baby. No one keeps 'em alive like me.

I need to push the waves earlier though. Wasn't till the last wave that any got more than halfway through my maze (excluding fliers).

Typhoons are great. Those frost towers are super cheap to upgrade. I find you really only need 2 level 4 or 5 anti-air for all the fliers, as long as your other defenses can help and aren't occupied.

CR

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The problem is the spawns come before the fliers and they take super long to defeat.

[sapi]

Finally beat Sasaki :grin2:

[Crazed Rabbit]

GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! SAAPPPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!

Once again, I'm knocked to third place.

How do you guys find so much time to play the game? It takes a good bit of time.

CR

[sapi]

I was just procrastinating and remembered this thread :grin2:

tbh I needed something to do while I'm finally dling the 1.2 patch for m2tw.

[Csargo]

Pellet Tower fully upgraded=400 damage
Typhoon Tower=320
ICBM Tower=256
Storm Tower=480
Blizzard Tower=40
Quake Tower=320

I'm gonna try a game with only upgraded Pellet towers to see if that's any better than a mix of the other towers.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

pellet towers fully upgraded are very slow. Typhoon tower will fire 4 times as often.

I may have found a use for the quake and icbm towers though.

[Csargo]

The Pellet Towers fully upgraded are have about 4x's the range so they can hit a target 4-5 times before it gets outta range.

[Csargo]

Well that didn't work as well as I had hoped.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Finally beat Sasaki :grin2:

Just wait till I get the air bosses with my new map...

[sapi]

Well, my top score is actually flawed - I was caught half way through an upgrade when they came and so one escaped.

I could always re-do it and not have that happen :grin2:

[HughTower]

I believe the high scores are achieved by people who 'juggle' - opening & closing alternate routes around the maze.

My tiny mind cannot compute how one goes about doing this..

[sapi]

I don't do it, but understand the theory.

You sell one tower, giving the creeps a way through.

As they are about to take it, you replace it.

They then go down an alternate route, at which point you can sell the tower again, causing them to replot what is the fastest route and turn around.

Rinse and repeat for some unfulfilling 'fun'

[pevergreen]

yeah, its a bit sad.

[Caius]

How can I upgrade?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Select the tower and then either hit "u" or click the upgrade button.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

6794

frost towers right in the path of the air bosses. No one got through.

[Pannonian]

5362. I'll have to try the juggling trick.

[CountArach]

Damn you this is adictive!

Oh well, I'm getting the hang of it.

[Pannonian]

5362. I'll have to try the juggling trick.
Not a happy experience. As said in the rules, the more you sell your towers, the longer it takes. Much simpler to build a simple maze.

The theory seems to be to use bog standard pellet towers to funnel them along a long corridor of squirt towers, upgraded as much as possible. Then as they reach the light at the end of the extremely heavily defended tunnel, you double them back for a repeat dose. The tricky bit is to survive long enough to build that funnel, and situating your tunnel so it can defend against fliers as well.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I'm guessing they send a whole bunch of enemies at once, thus minimizing the amount of times they have to sell and getting a lot of bonus points in the process.

[Csargo]

I'm guessing you send guys early to get a higher score.

[Pannonian]

5968, 20 lives. Those 2 blizzard towers really helped in slowing down the spawn bosses in the tunnels of death, allowing me to kill them off before concentrating on the fly bosses.

[HughTower]

New league table published.

Nice to see you, Pannonian. Been avoiding Mafia games?

[Masy]

mmm 6620

1st place will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine...

(I hate this game; I have exams in two weeks, and deliberately have not been active at the org. so as not to get distracted. I just happened upon this thread in my one moment of weakness, and now my text books lie discarded in a corner, gathering dust...)

[Masy]

7052 points

Dart Towers are *totally* underrated


I'm going to fail all my exams...

[HughTower]

League table updated.

Very disappointed in this game - I have singularly failed to beat my highscore that I posted when I started this thread. Aaaargh!

PS Well done, Masy.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

You just got to push the squid towers fast.

Although I think the dart towers help you get bonus points with the early levels.

[Pannonian]

League table updated.

Very disappointed in this game - I have singularly failed to beat my highscore that I posted when I started this thread. Aaaargh!

PS Well done, Masy.
Try having a concept and playing to that concept. My idea was to simplify the maze in its early stages, having as sparse a funnel as I can make it that will channel everything through a series of tunnels in the centre, where I spammed Typhoon (Squirt) towers and Blizzard (Frost) towers that can take care of both land and air creepies. It's very effective at killing everything, hence my series of perfect scores (20 lives), but there's a limit to how quickly I can force them through. I've been experimenting with ICBMs (Darts), but it invariably weakens my air defence and one or both Level 49 bosses get through as a result.

Can someone else explain how they build up their mazes?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

You guys know you can see everyones mazes by clicking on their names, right?

I try and skip the air tower and instead build my maze so that I can ensure that the flyers are flying over at a time when no ground guys are going through the maze. Having blizzard towers in front of the flightpaths is almost necessary for beating the flying bosses. If you are going for an air tower, go for one fully upgraded rather than 2 almost. For hard you have to push that air tower real fast.

[HughTower]

Eureka! - as the strange Greek man said in the bath-tub.

I am unbelievably stupid.

:stooge_larry: :stooge_moe: :stooge_curly:

For weeks, nay, months, I've not being making the final upgrade on my towers, thinking that incredibly high upgrade cost was actually the total I'd already spent.......

:furious2:

Lo & behold - I finally buy my first Typhoon & the whole thing becomes a lot easier, & I post my first 6000+ score.

:embarassed:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

^^heh. Yeah I remember the first time I built the typhoon towers too. They're like machine guns.

7162. That one ICBM tower really does make a difference, as does building the air tower.

[HughTower]

Congratulations!

My aim in life now is to prove the worth of Bash Towers.....

[Stig]

5165
that ain't that bad

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Congratulations!

My aim in life now is to prove the worth of Bash Towers.....

I think they're the key to the "no squirt" challenge. I just lost that one on level 50...if I had killed one more I would have won...arrg. But they do good damage.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

8236 in "10k" mode ~D

I'll have to try that maze again and this time just send them all through. They never got even halfway through my maze.

[Stig]

8300 in 10k mode, send them through quite quickly after eachother

Edit: 8364, couldn't click faster

[sapi]

8337

Would have won, but one of the boss spawns cheated its way though the wall, so 19 lives

[Masy]

Nicely done Sasaki. (*Grrs*)

Upon some minor testing, and looking at my maze again, I have come to the conclusion that Swarm Towers are not worth their weight in gold, and a larger number of Typhoon towers would be equally effective...I'm gonna stick with the darts though, they pwn most things at early levels (thus enabling one to press that magical 'n' button and get bonus points), and an ICBM with huge range is not to be sniffed at, even in the higher levels.

I will try and not to corrupt my study time with attempting an 8000+ score (that being said, I am in the library right now pretending to revise...), but I look forward to cracking it after the exams (pretty sad eh?).

PS, Anyone practice juggling in their mazes? I have been known to send a swarm boss back and forth a number of times in the past, but I mostly just speed build a maze and then upgrade.

[Stig]

5955, improving improving

[Ignoramus]

How do you submit scores?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

After typing your name in you are given the option of adding it to a group. Submit it to "Orgahs".

[Xiahou]

I thought I had a good concept maze on the 4k challenge mode- it focused heavily on 5th tier bash tower in a common choke point covered by an icbm tower followed by alternating rows of PEs and squirters. It seemed to be more than a match for ground creeps- but was apparently weak on air defense, as the last round of flying creeps made a mockery of my defenses. :shame:

[Ignoramus]

I'm now 11th!

[sirnoob]

i'm rubbish 1649:thumbsdown:

[FactionHeir]

5191. Hope to improve when I have the time.

[TevashSzat]

I actually have saw the mazes of the high scorers of the normal game. What they do is create a maze with two possible openings. One they cover with a simple pellet tower, When ground creeps get too close to the exit of one side, they sell the pellet tower and build one at the other exit forcing everything to go back through the mazes again. If you do this well, theoretically you can never lose to ground creeps and only need to build some swarm towers to take care of the air levels since your ground targetting turrets will be occupied with the trapped creeps.

[Faust|]

I actually have saw the mazes of the high scorers of the normal game. What they do is create a maze with two possible openings. One they cover with a simple pellet tower, When ground creeps get too close to the exit of one side, they sell the pellet tower and build one at the other exit forcing everything to go back through the mazes again. If you do this well, theoretically you can never lose to ground creeps and only need to build some swarm towers to take care of the air levels since your ground targetting turrets will be occupied with the trapped creeps.

It's a cheap tactic :beam:

[FactionHeir]

I've been looking into the fun mode of that game with my flatmate, and was building a few 10k mazes.
The following maze was most successful so far, but of course there is probably a better one somewhere.
Note that currently nearly everything is a pellet tower. This is only for demonstration of a maze layout, not the actual maze setup. Feel free to use it, replacing the pellets with whatever towers you prefer and critique it.
https://img363.imageshack.us/img363/6582/mazeus0.jpg

Initially that maze had a empower+8swarm towers in the center, but after some review, I figured moving swarm to the sides and having 2 extra loops in the center might be better.

[Faust|]

That would work in fun mode for sure. Might be hard-pressed in the normal mode.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

What's the one with the plus sign?

[sirnoob]

It's from 1.5 it gives the towers around it a boost.