Fieldrunners 2 for iPad for iPad: High Steaks Heroic Basic Towers Guide

To clear High Steaks on Heroic difficulty using only basic towers in Fieldrunners 2 for iPad for iPad, construct an extended serpentine maze across the open field using Gatling Towers, anchor every turn with Glue Towers, and concentrate upgraded Missile Towers in the center. Restricting your loadout to Gatling, Glue, and Missile towers eliminates high-tier burst weapons, making path length and overlapping fields of fire your primary win conditions.

Basic Tower Roles and Upgrade Priority

With advanced towers like Plasma, Laser, and Spark unavailable in this challenge, each basic tower must fulfill a specific structural and tactical role.

Building the Serpentine Maze

High Steaks features an open arena where creeps automatically chart the shortest route from entrance to exit. You must redirect them through an S-curve gauntlet without blocking them completely. Closing off the path entirely causes enemies to attack and breach your towers.

1. Establish the entry barrier: Place level-one Gatling Towers near the creep spawn to block direct southward movement toward the exit, forcing enemies to turn horizontally across the upper board.
2. Lay out alternating dividers: Build parallel columns of level-one Gatling Towers extending outward from opposite walls. Leave a one-tile corridor at the end of each column to force runners into repeated U-turns.
3. Anchor every turn with Glue: Position a Glue Tower at the inside corner of each turn. Runners decelerate at the point of reversal, causing incoming units to bunch tightly together.
4. Reserve central tiles for artillery: Leave key interior spaces open along the central spine of the maze to place Missile Towers where their firing arcs can reach at least two adjacent lanes.

Upgrade Sequencing

Spending gold on upgrades at key choke points yields significantly better defense than cluttering the arena with un-upgraded level-one weapons.

• Phase 1: Tier-Two Glue. Prioritize upgrading your central Glue Towers to tier two before buying additional Missile Towers. A tier-two Glue Tower widens its slow radius and slows enemies more sharply, keeping them under basic Gatling fire for longer durations.
• Phase 2: Tier-Three Missiles. Direct mid-game gold into raising centrally located Missile Towers to tier three. Because level-three missiles deliver heavy area-of-effect damage, a single central launcher can soften swarms and heavily armored units across multiple passes of the maze.
• Phase 3: Gatling Reinforcements. Upgrade Gatling Towers along your highest-traffic lanes to level two and three to finish off damaged runners that survive the central missile crossfire.

Countering Swarms, Heavies, and Air Waves

Fast runners, armored heavies, and straight-line air incursions create distinct failure points when using low-tier towers:

• Fast Infantry and Motorbikes: Rapid units can slip past level-one Gatling fire if slow effects expire. Stagger Glue Towers across separate turns rather than clustering them together so the slow debuff continually refreshes. Keep a small reserve of unspent gold to drop an emergency Gatling Tower near the exit gate if a runner breaks away.
• Armored Heavies: Late-game heavies absorb heavy Gatling fire without significant loss of momentum. Ensure your tier-three Missile Towers overlap directly over the slowest Glue pockets to keep heavy targets exposed to repeated splash impacts.
• Air Incursions: Flying units ignore ground mazing and travel directly toward the exit in a straight line. Centralize Missile Towers so their anti-air targeting reaches across the center of the map, eliminating aircraft before they reach your backline defense.