Let’s Play Rock of Ages #06: Crushing Calamitous Combos
214This is a blind playthrough. Kindly avoid posting spoilers in the comments or solutions to puzzles either in this video or future ones so as not to spoil the experience for me or those that haven’t seen the game before.
The further we get into the game, the more lessons we learn as tow hat things work together and what don’t. You can get through the early levels even with poor placement of your defensive units on account of your foes taking so long initially to roll out, giving you that all-important time advantage. That gap has been narrowing into the midgame and I’m sure that it’ll have us on the back foot by the end, so making sure that you slow down your opponent to regain the speed advantage is critical, not to mention damaging their boulder so it deals less damage.
Things that rely on your foe’s boulder being slow for maximum effectiveness are best placed behind towers, like cows and catapults. Explosives are also good behind them as well as in the vicinity of tricky jumps. I don’t use the fans too often but they are good paired up with catapults to buy them more shots at your foe. The aerial catapult thingies are good scattered all over the place but are especially nice in places where one good hit will send them off the edge. Gold mines are best placed in out-of-the-way locations to ensure you get as much gold as you can. Finally, it’s a good idea to place a heavy line of towers right before your gate to try and slow down the final charge of the boulder as much as possible, for speed goes hand-in-hand with size for determining damage.
The layout of the levels will encourage or prevent certain strategies, of course, so you’ll need to adapt to what’s placed before you rather then blindly going with one way to win every time. A good way to know what's decent is to look at what the AI is doing and adapt it to your needs. Remember also that this is only half the battle; the only way your defences can save you is if they destroy your opponent’s boulder ever time or prevent them from finishing somehow, both of which are impossible. You need to be able to deal the damage as well as prevent it, something we’ll talk more about next time.
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