Crazy Defense Heroes

Gameplay Guide

Hello everyone! Crazy Defense Heroes is a tower defense game that combines gaming elements of different genres such as role-playing and collectible card games. If this definition intrigues you and you are already a fan of tower defense games, you should definitely try this game.

Creating and Linking an Account

First, you will need to download it to your mobile device to play. Before delving into the game, I recommend setting up your account first. This is done in-game through the settings tab. You need to tap Login, and it will ask you to register if you already do not have an account. After creating an account, you should link your game account to your wallet. You can log in to the game’s website with your newly created account and link your wallet. By going to the Earn Tower section, you can start gaining rewards by logging in daily to the site after opening your Star Chest. More details will be given in a later section about earning TOWER tokens.

You need to connect your in-game account to the game’s website to start earning TOWER tokens.

Starting the Game

When you download the game, it will immediately ask you to play the first tutorial level.

The game will present you with a tutorial island that introduces the mechanics, such as how to build a tower or move your heroes. It does a great job if you have never played a tower defense game to get you accumulated. After completing it, your main menu will present you with more options. You can look through different campaign islands and levels, check out your cards and inventory, and strategize what quests and missions you want to complete.

After completing the tutorial levels, your main menu expands with more options.

The Basics

Three starring every level on an island grants more rewards.

Every level consists of points for you to defend from streams of enemies. These enemies enter from the edges of a map and march to the point you are trying to defend. Eliminating enemies grants mana which is required to play and upgrade units. You have different cards which you can take into the battle to defend. The cards have three types; towers, spells, and heroes. Each card has a play limit and a mana cost per unit. The towers are your main lines of defense. They are immobile buildings that attack the enemies which are in their range. They prioritize the enemies that are closest to your defensive point. Towers can be upgraded, their upgrades are unique to the unit types. They can vary from range, damage, or ability upgrades. Spells and Heroes, on the other hand, need to be actively controlled. Every hero can move around the level by dragging, and they will attack the enemies that they come across. They can either be melee or ranged. Spells require selecting and placing them on the map. Your avatar also counts as a permanent hero who will be present in every level, even the ones where usage of hero cards is restricted.

You can watch a short advertisement before every level to reduce enemy strength by %5.

Before entering any battle, you can take a look at the map layout, the difficulty of the battle, and how long it will take approximately. You should also scout while selecting which heroes, spells, and towers to bring because there may be enemies that are resistant to physical damage or maybe large in numbers that travel in packs. This helps you select your cards accordingly, ultimately making it easier to three-star a level.

Before entering the battle, you can choose your loadout and scout the enemy.

After entering the level, there are certain actions and decisions you will have to make before and during the battle;

• Where to build your towers
• Where to place your avatar and your heroes
• How to spend your mana on spells and upgrades after putting down your units

Towers can be built on predetermined spots. These spots’ numbers vary at each level. For example, you can have four lightning towers and four javelin towers in your hand, and there can only be five spots to build. Prioritizing certain actions plays a massive role in whether you succeed or not. In the previous example, there may be enough spots to build every tower but not enough mana to spend. You should decide if you can survive for two or three rounds to build another tower. Level restrictions and enemy paths dictate every decision you make. Some levels can have multiple enemy paths and multiple spots to defend. These paths don't have to be interconnected every time, a hero that you place on a path might not be able to traverse to another in some instances.

Heroes

Your spells, heroes, towers, and avatar items can be seen in your cards section.

Towers

Spells

Avatar

Your avatar is equipped with items that boost its attributes.

Your avatar is the main character that you level up each time you gain experience, and it will be present at every level. You can equip your avatar with different items that you gain through chests and quests. Equipment items affect and alter the appearance and stats of your avatar. Each equipment piece determines specific aspects of your avatar's abilities, such as attack damage, defense, health regeneration, and movement speed. Your avatar can wear one of each type of equipment item.

There are six types of equipment items; helmet, armor, shield, boots, accessory, and weapon. You must equip each card on your avatar in order for it to be effective in levels, which can be done in the avatar menu available in the cards section. Every accessory can be upgraded with materials. Equipment items have a different set of upgrade materials, you don’t need to worry about spending them at the expense of upgrading other cards.

General Gameplay Tips

There can be more than one spot and one path with different types of enemies for you to defend.

You can adapt different playstyles by combining different towers, heroes, and spells. I’ve found much success in high single target damage towers like Javelin and Sniper combined with tanky heroes such as Behemoth. I really like concentrating damage on a single spot where most of my towers can attack and block the enemy with crippling spells and high-hit point heroes that can survive. This creates choke points that are impenetrable. Javelin towers have a high rate of fire, upgradeable range, and increased damage. Sniper towers have the highest single target damage in the game, and it prioritizes higher health enemies first. Sometimes this damage can be overkill, especially in the early game. I’d like to compensate for this by using Lightning towers. Their attacks are magical damage that penetrates armor, they can be upgraded to have chain attacks that damage more than one target, and the lightning zaps stop the enemy for a brief moment. They are really useful for dealing with swarms of low-health enemies. My playstyle lacks area of effect damage since I also use staggering spells such as bear traps, but you can swap it out for a bladestorm if you’d like to. You can even run a minimal amount of towers and spells and instead opt for an army of heroes which you can micromanage that turns the game into a real-time strategy game.

Daily Progression

Daily quests can be completed to gain more chests.

You have an energy bar that is used when you want to tackle on a level or scavenge for materials. Energy is replenished simply by waiting, just like other time-gated content like openable chests that grant rewards. You can turn on your mobile device’s notifications to get notified when your energy bar is full, or there is a chest ready to be opened.

Hourly and daily chests can be opened when the timer depletes. Other chests such as star chests require certain conditions to be completed.

There are many adventure levels that you can progress through, along with daily quests and missions. I’d say every three starring adventure level should be your primary goal in the game since completing islands give the most rewards. However, completing islands may take up to a week. If you plan to play daily for an hour, you should focus on doing quests; they will help you progress faster than grinding adventure mode.

Scavenge allows you to dig for the materials you seek.

If you are just a few materials shy from upgrading a card, you can try scavenging that material from an island. You can only scavenge islands that you have completed on the adventure mode. Islands all have different materials attached to them.

You can send your cards on missions to have a chance at finding rarer materials and rewards. These are idle missions where they will be completed after a certain amount of time.

Every material you get will be stored in your inventory.

Finally, there is a daily claim reward for in-game goods. You can claim materials, gold, energy, or even chests by clicking on the upper right side calendar.

You can claim rewards each day by simply logging in and clicking on the calendar.

Earning $TOWER

There are two ways to earn TOWER tokens and they are both from the game’s website. You can log in daily to the game’s website after opening your Star Chest or you can participate in limited events like the Grand Tournament Colosseum and progress in the game to gain experience which can be exchanged for TOWER tokens.

Star Chests are opened with your stars which are gained from campaign levels. A total of sixteen stars are needed to open one chest. The Star Chest will grant you in-game rewards such as rare cards, materials, or gold. After opening one, you can head to the game’s website and earn your daily TOWER token reward. The first reward in a month will grant 1 token while the fourth reward will give 10 tokens. You get more tokens each day that increase progressively. One for the first day, plus two for the second day, plus three for the third day, and so on. For a thirty-one day month, assuming you opened your star chest and claimed your daily reward, you can earn 496 tokens. This optimal gain can only be accumulated if you start your streak on the first day of the month. I was able to gain 28 tokens after seven days of playing, opening star chests, and claiming my rewards daily.

Crazy Defense Heroes is an enjoyable tower defense game to play and earn. It rewards players each day by simply logging in and provides addicting gameplay with smooth progression. Players can experiment with many different towers, heroes, and spells to keep things interesting. Thank you for reading!