Resources:
- GOLD Killing a hero and enemy unit give you a normal bounty, Try to destroy crate for hidden gold coin, kill the villager and mine your gold through abandon gold mine, their gold bounty is higher that the normal creeps in the map, Take note they don’t give a lumber bounty. You can find it South of NAGA Castle.
- LUMBER You can farm your Lumber in to wood golem, go to the north of tuskar’s camp, and step into circle of power and it will respawn 5 wood golems, each golem give a 300 lumber bounty, do it many times as possible to gain a mass of lumber.
- TRADING You can trade the 1500 Gold for 1000 Lumber, and 800 Lumber for 1000 Gold, Very useful in balancing your resource, just go to the Village EAST from your town and find the trader.
Units:
- Starting Units , Your starting gold and lumber is enough to defend your Shrine in first waves of enemies.
- Heritic - They heal your units and repair your Shrine, They have life regeneration aura, that Heals allied and enemy unit, they are Vulnerable units so guard them or let them out of the combat scene, don’t let him get near to assassins or else you cannot kill them. This Unit also build a shrine Fortifier that help you to barricade and protect you shrine a little bit.
- Cavern Witch - They have divine armor, and receive less damage from enemy unit, but don’t be at ease Naga’s Dragon Snapper is an ultimate witch killer so this units must be used early in the game to raid the camp and help you roam around the map.
- Tough Zombie – This unit is a very useful unit because of this cleaving damage but, this is not so tough early in the game, you need upgrades for him to make him tough enough in the combat.
- Zombiefied Allied heroes – This unit help you to tank and absorb a damage, and has devotion aura, help you to increase your units armor early in the game.
- Necromancer and Cavern Crawler – This unit helps you defend your shrine but not so reliable because of low hp and low damage.
Special Units:
- Hired Heroes – This heroes will help you finish the game, each of them can use skills and items, They cost a lot of food so pick a few only. Their Tavern are located East from your camp.
- Goblin Smith – This unit is vulnerable, has teleportation ability, this is very useful in the game to let him forge your items while you are in combat.
- Mercenaries – They are expensive units with fortified armor, they don’t cost a food so when your food is maxed your choice is to hire them.
Upgrades:
Foul Soul – This upgrades will increase your unit maximum hp and regeneration. Must take this upgrades max early in the game.
Minion Carapace - This upgrades will give a bonus defense to your Cavern Witch, to let them more durable, Must take at least 1 early in the game.
Unholy Armor – This upgrade is also used by Death Lord so take this at least 1 or 2 as possible.
Plague Aura – This upgrade gives off a cloud of plague and damaging the enemy, Used also by Death lord, hired Heroes, and some units.
Others – Other upgrades are optional but can help you toughen your units.
Item hierarchy:
- Basic items
- Reinforced items
– Can be Forge by Goblin Smith, Heroes, Death Lord
- Enchanted items
– Only forge by an Enchanter ( Pedestal of Enchantment)
- Legendary items
- Only forge by Demons ( Demon Forge)
- Rare items
- Only forge by Dragon Slayer ( can be found in the EAST village)