To unlock Golems in Archer Castle, open the hero menu and meet the level or currency requirements for your target progression tier. Once unlocked, place Golems at the front of your deck line to draw enemy aggression away from your main castle and archers. Because Golems carry higher deployment costs and longer cooldowns, upgrade your gold-producing structures first to ensure your wave income can support them.
Defeating the Red Dragon
The Red Dragon serves as a heavy burst-damage test for your defense setup. Prioritize heroes with passive damage reduction or temporary shield skills to prevent your castle from collapsing under high-impact attacks.
Follow this sequence during the boss battle:
- Observe attack telegraphs to time your defensive shielding and damage reduction spells.
- Save your highest-damage ultimate skills for the dragon's enrage phase or critical health thresholds rather than using them early.
- If your base falls before defeating the boss, pause your attempts and reinvest gold into Castle Archer levels, base armor, and hero passives.
Clearing Hell Colonies
Hell Colony maps contain dense enemy waves and high-health targets protecting a central core structure. Winning requires continuous area-of-effect (AoE) damage and effective crowd control.
Structure your deck using these adjustments:
- AoE Damage: Bring at least two dedicated area-of-effect heroes to clear incoming mob waves while main heroes target the central core.
- Crowd Control Towers: Deploy towers that inflict slows or stuns to hold back advancing forces, giving your archers and frontline Golems time to deal damage.
- Long-Range Placement: Swap out low-impact utility heroes for long-range attackers if your deck cannot reach the colony core safely.
Managing Upgrade Resources
Failing attempts on boss encounters or Hell Colonies wastes gold that could fund structural growth. Use these baseline checks to avoid resource waste:
- Wave Speed: If regular waves clear slowly, prioritize direct hero damage upgrades over adding new units.
- Defeat Patterns: If towers break before the boss dies, pause map progression to focus on castle HP and structural defense upgrades.
- Idle Farming: Accumulate a gold buffer during idle periods before spending currency on high-difficulty colony or boss attempts.
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Can you add more details about strategy in a future update?
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