Fieldrunners 2 for iPad for iPad: Tangled Express Heroic No-Sell Guide

To beat Tangled Express on Heroic difficulty in Fieldrunners 2 for iPad for iPad without using consumable items, selling towers, or leaking runners, you must build an extended maze that forces all ground lanes through a single, heavily controlled central intersection. Because train tracks create fixed physical boundaries while open ground allows custom pathing, success depends on placing low-cost Gatling walls early to extend travel time, layering Glue Towers with area-of-effect damage, and committing every placement permanently to save gold for tier-three upgrades.

Recommended Tower Loadout

A "No Items, No Sell" run leaves no room for wasted gold or emergency consumable bombs. Select a loadout that covers crowd control, sustained damage over time, and heavy armor penetration:

• Gatling Tower: Provides cheap pathing blocks to construct maze corridors and direct runner traffic away from track exits.
• Glue Tower: Slows enemy movement to clump waves together, maximizing the impact of splash weapons.
• Gas Tower: Emits lingering area-of-effect damage over time across high-density choke points and track turns.
• Rocket Tower: Deals long-range explosive damage capable of bombarding grouped ground units and heavy vehicles across track barriers.
• Tesla Tower: Fires chain attacks to eliminate fast runners and strip health from swarms passing through primary firing lanes.

Because selling towers incurs an economic loss that threatens your late-game gold pool, every tower must remain in place for the entire match.

Early-Game Routing and Economy (Waves 1–10)

The primary bottleneck in early waves is running out of track length before light towers can finish off fast scouts. Delay individual tower upgrades and spend your initial funds on lengthening the path.

1. Drop base Gatling Towers at track intersections: Build winding corridors that steer incoming ground runners away from the immediate track exits. Placing multiple 5-gold blocks forces enemies to march significantly further, generating far more effective damage across wave 1 through wave 10 than a single upgraded tower.
2. Anchor the entrance with a Glue Tower: Place one Glue Tower at the entrance of your newly routed corridor once the basic maze outline is established. Slowing incoming units keeps fast runners from outrunning basic Gatling fire.
3. Save your gold: Let your perimeter Gatling line clear early infantry without buying tier-two upgrades until the primary maze route is fully walled off.

Mid-Wave Layering: Building the Central Kill Zone

Mid-game waves introduce armored vehicles and larger runner groups. Consolidate your damage into the center of the map where maze paths run parallel to track curves.

• Stack Glue and Gas Towers: Position Gas Towers directly beside your Glue Towers at the sharpest turns. Slowed units remain trapped inside poison clouds longer, suffering sustained damage before reaching rear defenses.
• Upgrade Glue radius: Upgrade your central Glue Towers to tier two and tier three to expand their area of effect and slow intensity. This clusters separate waves into a unified pack.
• Place Rocket Towers behind maze walls: Set Rocket Towers inside the central core behind Gatling walls. Their superior range allows them to bombard units approaching on distant tracks as well as targets navigating the interior maze.

Countering Late Heroic Threats

Late Heroic waves test your ability to eliminate massive health pools and high-speed units without relying on rewind items or panic-selling. Prioritize bringing central damage towers to tier three rather than spreading upgrades across outer walls.

Never build reactive towers at the exit line when units slip through. Instead, invest gold into upgrading your central Rocket and Glue nodes to destroy incoming waves before they reach the final corridor.