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Orcs Must Die! Unchained (2017)

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(Patch 2.6) This was done at Account Level 22, with a mixture of tier 3 and tier 2 traps. Tar, Brimstone, and Arrow Wall are at tier 3, but the rest are at tier 2 or lower.

Max is really good here, because he can afford placing all of these Barricades before the first wave. If you go in with another character, you'll have to make do with what you can place, assuming you don't come in with extra coin from other sources (like Parts/Traits).

I initially hated this map until I found out how to use Barricades correctly. This isn't the only Barricade strategy I've seen - I've seen a number of different ways people have set it up in matchmaking. It's a little hard to describe how I place them in text, but the idea is to force them all down a single lane, into the SE corner, then have them loop back up.

Make sure you block off the southernmost entry to the Rift! Once you do, the minions will path back upwards, to the single entry that's directly east of the Rift. Other than that, make sure you have 2 Barricades near the north gate somewhere by wave 6, to distract the Kamikaze Kobolds on that wave (you really don't want them reaching any of the other Barricades). I replace the decoys once they get destroyed, but I'm pretty sure you don't see any more after wave 6.

Two things you'll notice about this strategy - it's highly dependent on Grinders, and the southern gate has the shortest route to the Rift. Despite that, if you look at it, I feel this is the optimal way to do it, because all you have to do is be at the south gate; all the other minions from the other gates are forced to merge into the same lane where the south gate is.

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