Kingdom Rush Vengeance TD+: The Lost Empire Impossible Guide

To clear The Lost Empire campaign on Impossible difficulty in Kingdom Rush Vengeance TD+, build your defenses around converging track intersections, lock down landing zones to counter jumping enemies, and eliminate Anurian Channelers immediately before their buffs reach frontline brawlers.

Across the campaign's three stages—Corridors of the Old City, Lost Passage, and Ancient Gate—elevated enemy health and limited gold penalize scattered defenses. Focus your spending on a single, layered kill zone per intersection rather than distributing low-tier towers across separate lanes.

Core Enemy Threats and Targeting Priorities

Anurian forces combine swarm numbers, leaping mobility, and aura support. Spend early gold and cooldowns against these primary threats:

• Anurian Channelers: Top-priority casters that grant shields and healing ripples to adjacent units. Eliminate them on entry using hero skills or global spells like Soul Impact before they overlap with heavy frontline units.
• Leapdragons and Anurian Warders: High-health tanks. Leapdragons leap over obstacles and frontline blockers, while Warders absorb heavy physical and magical hits. Both require continuous sustained damage to bring down.
• Anurian Frogguards and Blighted Broods: Fast swarms that deplete single-target targeting. Stalling units must intercept them to keep heavy single-target towers focused on larger targets.

Recommended Tower Loadout

A flexible five-tower setup provides the required mix of physical stalling, continuous thermal boss damage, crowd control, and armor reduction.

Deployment Strategy

1. Anchor the intersection: Upgrade a central Spectre Mausoleum to Tier IV early. The Possession ability turns elite Anurian brawlers against their own waves, mitigating multi-lane pressure.
2. Layer your stall lines: Place cheap Bone Flingers ahead of the choke point to stall Frogguard swarms with Skeletons. Seat Dark Knights directly behind them to catch surviving heavies.
3. Melt armored brawlers: Position the Blazing Gem where its beam can remain locked onto Warders and Leapdragons as they fight through your Dark Knights and Deep Devil's Reef nets.

Countering Leaping Mechanics

Leapdragons bypass standard road choke points by jumping over forward defenses. Placing blockers at spawning bends will leave ranged towers firing at empty pathing while Leapdragons advance toward the exit.

• Identify the designated landing markers down the track where jumping units land.
• Cluster your Dark Knights and Skeleton rally points slightly behind these landing zones.
• Engage Leapdragons the moment they touch down to prevent them from slipping into unguarded stretches of the track.

Hero Positioning and Cooldown Management

High-damage or crowd-control heroes such as Eiskalt, Murglun, or Mortemis provide the mobility required to patch defensive leaks.

• Hold a fallback lane: Keep your hero positioned near the rear boundary of your main kill zone to intercept Frogguards that bypass primary blockers while towers target tanks.
• Save global powers for combined waves: Do not use spells on basic swarms that Bone Flingers can manage. Reserve burst skills for composite waves where Channelers march behind Warders or Leapdragons.
• Chain hero crowd control with Blazing Gem: Trigger hero stuns, slows, or freezes when the Blazing Gem reaches its peak beam charge to hold elite enemies within maximum damage output until defeated.