Has anyone beaten the boss yet? If not, what encounter ended your run?
For now my strategy rely upon a lot on upgraded archers and some kind of tanks in front. It’s very random : if I can obtain a gold upgrade on some units, and apply a second gold updgrade, I can progress, if not I cannot go very far. So for me it’s very luck based and quite frustrating. But I have fun ! I tried the cleric and the fire wizard with no success, and the alternative to the archer also did not work (I forgot his name).
So I don’t know, maybe I’m just not good enough 😂
21 days ago(+1)
I reached the boss and failed but I got him within less than a third of his health left. I played the game all day yesterday. From my observations it does appear that there is a balance issue between the Ranged unit differentiation with Archers being disproportionately strong. I also survived with a basic Footman team up front. Berserkers (Especially.) and Swordsmans tend to die very fast due to Skeleton Archers, the numbers advantage and relative durability seems more important for frontliners.
That early game encounter with the extremely large amount of skeleton archers tends to be a run killer. All of my units for this run were placed directly to the edge with the Clerics in the middle backline. This is the 2nd run I've had where I've reached the orcs and my first reaching the boss. Do note that the 1,2 listing is not the order I got the units in.