#chess-td

New Arcade Mode CHESS-TD!!

Anyone else been playing this mode? I really enjoy this kind of game, although I generally sucks at them. It is easy yet hard. It is strategy planning yet based on luck. I really appreciate that Moonton sometimes makes funny and relaxing extra mode.

I have been playing it all day and I can’t say I got any pro tips or any if you do this and you will win method. Because I still haven’t figured out all the combination yet myself. But I am starting to see a routine as what I need to do in order to get in the top 3 spot. 

In this mode you got Faction and Role. I find faction more important than role, like I would want to collect all of a faction’s heroes and maybe not all of the heroes for a role, unless you got a specific reason to acquire the given buff by the Role. 

I briefly listed as what kind of buff the faction and role gives. You will need to collect 1 or up too all heroes of the faction/role in order to unlock the buff (you can just mark over the symbol in-game to check the details). The heart-marks next to them are more of my to-go strategy or even some specific hero I really like to use, for example Zhask is a broken one in this mode. 

Once you start you will get to buy 2 heroes and start 1 Round. After every round depending if you win/lose you will get gold rewards. With the gold you can buy more heroes or unlock more slots (up to 9) to place more heroes on the chess board. You can play as many Round as needed for the 2nd to last one to “die”. 

Basically while you build your strong powerful burst Chess Pieces, you will also need to remember they need to be durable to fight the enemies chess board when they raid. It is not wise to only have squishy long range heroes but some times a durable Tank or Fighter is needed or a 3-star with speed boosted Assassin will also be nice. 

When placing out the heroes it is good if you check their hit range (area of the radius). So you don’t place too close a dead wall and you ended up wasting the double side of hitting both path. This is also the most decisive reason if you will win a game or not. Sometimes when I just place them out randomly without thinking I will lose very badly and ugly. If you quickly adjust after each round you might still be able to save the match. 

Personally I like to start with Mortal Faction, if the shop gives those heroes (Ruby/Layla/Guison) as an early option. Each round it will gives extra golds and it really helps building up your team fast, it is worth it. I will manage to open up at least 2 slot more or if lucky you might have gotten a 3-star hero by spamming the refresh button. In the game I posted it is a Mortal Faction strategy I used, I even kept Guison as a 3-stars. Otherwise I normally will sell them and use other more powerful choices. The fact that I take advantage of the broken Zhask I always ends up collecting the Celestial Faction too. Otherwise I like to have at least 2 from the Abyss Faction (Helcurt specific). The reason why Zhask is broken is his summoned pet just works as another chess piece on the board permanently. It will take a few hits for it to be summoned but once it is there it stays. They are never summoned close to each other unless the board is filled, which makes it great for covering an empty spot to fill with extra firearms.

Even if you just place out 2, 1-star Zhask, they will deal quite a good amount of damage + the extra stun. When it comes to stun and CC, The Royal and Cyborg faction makes a great play + adding Ruby it is almost permanently stun. But the hardest thing is if you focus on collecting a specific faction or role heroes you might lose the game still. I was really focused on getting 2 factions once and it started good and it fought well, until it went too long and I lack 3-stars heroes on the board so I couldn’t keep up at the end. So make sure if they give you a hero many times make sure you re-think and start building a 3-star hero with it instead.

There are 5 purple/pink framed heroes, Irithiel, Hayabusa, Minotaur, Odette and Terizla. I have used all of them except Mino. Odette can save the game if you are in crisis, her skills will Melt the raid easily, just make sure you put some CC heroes next to her to help her keep them within the radius. As for Irithiel and Haya they blast the enemies away if you have collected their faction for them. I am probably not as much impress with Terizla since it is hard for them to time the skills used, sometimes missed or sometimes only a minion in there.

Another combination I liked is Celestial Faction + Marksman Role. The Speed buff added for all of them are like bazooka. I have also seen pure Mage Role and maybe some Tank can easily clear all the Raid with 100% hp bar. Or Fighter + Tank role, due to them having AOE buff + harder to kill during Raid they can wreck havoc in another way while staying safe. 

Now having more heroes on the board or if you have more 3-stars heroes doesn’t make it an easy win. They got like no relation although it does ease with clearing wave or raiding enemies. It is all about how you use the board and how you place out your pieces. Do they connect? Are the faction and role a good combination? Do they enhance each other or just useless. So if you are having a lose streak like I did, try to experiment.

Tl;dr Start with Mortal Faction for gold. Make sure you always get Zhask. Adding 1 or 2 CC heroes on the boards will help slow down the raid. Example Ruby + Angela or Martis + Thamuz or Johnson + Kaja etc... any combination of your choices. 

One of my best game so far. I was having too much fun at collecting 3 Stars Heroes (almost got Hanabi too). I am using Remy with 2nd Ability + Eruditio Faction, I could massive spam the refresh button for like 10-20 coins every round. And of course the enemy was strong as well so we kept doing that for like 5 or 8 rounds. 

You could see we both are pretty much just collecting Heroes to upgrade for 3 stars.

Enemy went for 6 Mages along with Northern Vale and Empire + Elf + Undead + Tank buffs. Which is a good combo.

I went with mainly Eruditio + Celestial + Scarlet Shad and added up for the buff with Marksman, the mage and support are bonus from Celestial and Eruditio squad. 

Hayabusa is pretty much 2nd to Zhask for being broken once he is paired up with Hanabi due to -shadow kiru- (haha) he cleans the mobs super fast so everyone could focus on the upcoming enemies squad.

Which is also the main reason why 4 Assassin is super broken with 70% CDR on their skills. But I feel like it is also dependent on the map given if they can be at a good spot for good reach.

If I went for 6 Mages I would have gotten Zhask + Cyclops as main force, even adding a 2nd Zhask would benefits more. I am not sure what choice the enemy had but getting Tigreal would be better than having Lancelot for the CC to let the mage cast more AOE skills. For Mage squad I would go Cyclops + Zhask + Vexana + Eudora + Odette + Aurora and for the remaining 2 slot would be Franco and another tank or 2nd Zhask. 

2nd to last screenshot is me playing a 6 Mages squad. I made it with 6 Mages consist of Zhask/Cyclops/Vexana/Eudora/Odette/Aurora + Franco + GatoKaca + Karrie. Which gave me buff from Mage Role + Celestial Faction + Northern Vale Faction + Tank Role + Undead Faction. This is a bit more viable for giving the mages a bit more of attack speed to benefit from the 6 Mages Buff (which is Mage Heroes’s basic attack deals massive magic damage).

--For no reason, at looking the Synergy map I am missing Khadita and Kaja :C --

What’s so good about the new Commander? Basically they give Spell or Passive that can give you a better start or Defences.

Currently I am using Remy with the 2nd Ability which is a Passive Spell. So if you already know about the Interest system (each 10 gold will raise your Interest by 2) and you can get a max of 6 interest at 30 golds (10+2, 20+4, 30+6). With Remy’s 2nd Spell, it will gain 1 more interest and max at 20 golds (10+3 or 20+6). You will accumulate gold at crazy speed. 

If you are like me who loves using the The Eruditio faction (gives random 1-4 coins) + Remy’s 2nd Ability you will gain massive gold for fast opening all the 9 slots + mega spam for re-rolling heroes.

The downside with Using Eruditio, it is hard to get a good combo with both faction or role. I did say you need to build some good hybrid or rely on Faction buff. Or you have to stick with some broken hero or use a low counts of faction buff such as Hayabusa/Hanabi + either marksmen or assassins role. 

Even without Eruditio you can still get coins really fast with only Remy, you just need to be mindful to keep your coin 20+.

If you want to go by Role make sure you at least get the same kind from the same Faction for example:

Marksmen - Miya + Irithiel (Elf)

Assassin - Lancelot + Natalia (Empire)

Mage - Cyclops + Zhask (Celestial)

Fighter - Thamuz + Terizla (Demon)

Even if not everyone will benefit from the Faction buff at least it is a buff for at least 2 of them while everyone else will benefits from the Role buff. 

I am still trying different combos and I am either not lucky or doing something wrong. But I will give some example that have been getting me to Victory. 

At early start Assassin got the most damage but short range. If you go full Assassins get Scarlet Shad or Empire Faction. My kind of favourite Roles, I like to get at least 4 of them with Empire or Scarlet Shad faction (Hayabusa is nuts).

Mage got strong damage but low Attack Speed, decent range. If you want to go full Mage make a combo with Celestial or get Northern Vale Faction. Or if you are hardcore get 6 Assassins with 2 strong Mage (for CD reduction), like Odette would be nice due to having Lancelot/Natalia). 

Marksman are strongest when they are 3 or 6, if they are less in number, their Attack Speed is slow, they are only good for the long range. Damage is good only when they are pair together or buff with Factions such as Celestial or Elf (Layla got the Longest Range).

Tank are tanky when running through enemies base, good CC but low Damage and short range. So Tank are like Marksman you want many of them to get full effect, or just extra from whatever faction you are collection for addition CC effect. Tank are nice with Cyborg or Northern Vale Factions.

Fighter got damage and good CC but short range. Before this update I would go Fighter with Beast Faction. But now I rarely go for full Fighter squad. I get like 1 or 2 of them for Faction purpose. But otherwise get at least 3 of them or go with Demon Squad or Tank Role for Splash Damage. 

Support is great for CC like Slow Effect, this is needed for fast mobs. 

Just some example of how I do, 2 of my favourite factions are Celestial or Empire outside of Eruditio. 

Celestial is always a good Faction due to Zhask is super broken. Get 4 Celestial (with Zhask) and the remaining 5 slots could be 2 Marksmen (Hanabi) + 2 Assassin (Hayabusa) + Support. Or 4 Assassins (Hayabusa) + Hanabi. 

Empire are good for Assassins Roles, get Lancelot and Natalia for the stun, and get 2 more assassin (if you are lucky get 4), I like to have Hayabusa + Hanabi and Helcurt. Otherwise get Ling and Zilong and complete with Dragons Altar Faction. 

Chess-TD is back and with some updated content too!

First of all, it got a new ranking system just like Survival. Some old heroes got removed along with some new got added (rip Ruby and Beast Faction, Roger and Mino :((( ) At the end of last time I got really hooked into using the Beast Faction heroes along with either Marksman or Assassin combo.

You can also buy new Commander in shop with Battle Points or Diamond (+skin for them). You can buy these in the Shop under the Arcade section. What you benefits from them is the Spell/Passive  you get to use in game.

Harper is a mix of Block attack and can give golds.

Ragnar is mostly for Healing.

Remy for Gold.

You can either unlock the Spells by using them to gain experiences or buying their Skin. So choose wisely unless you are as mindless as me and just bought all of them without reading what they are for.

Please be mindful how you use the Spell. If you are curios go to the shop/arcade page to read their description. Otherwise if you accidentally press the Spell during the game make sure you don't release the button if you don't want to use it, just wait for the Cancel Button to show up.

Now there is a problem for me, there is supposed to be a page where you can check and change stuff for Chess-TD but I can't really access that page unless I have played one round. I can't seem to find it otherwise. On this page you can check different things regarding the games. Such as Profile for Chess-TD (winrate and such), Leaderboards (for ranking), Customization for your Commander (you can do this in the shop window too), Synergy map etc..

My winrate currently is very low. I am still amidst of trying different combo or a different set of heroes  + Spoils to see which is most effective.

In my opinion there is no guarantee what sets of heroes will lead to 100% victory. Sometimes it is based on luck of what roll of heroes you get to buy and what kind of setup the enemies are using.

Once I tho I nailed it in the beginning, I was aiming to get like a set of Marksmen or Mage, but then literally all the enemies went Full Tank early on and it was impossible to wipe them so early without any faction/role buff and my team just couldn't do anything. I hadn't lost so bad since ever I first started Chess-TD.