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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.