Thronefall - A Little Kingdom: How to Beat Totend

To beat Totend in Thronefall - A Little Kingdom, prioritize anti-air defenses around your Town Center, control choke points with melee units held behind gates, and avoid overexpanding your early economy into undefended territory. Totend introduces flying spirits and wraiths that bypass perimeter walls entirely. Securing your central keep with Hunters or Longbow Archers while using your monarch to clear ground swarms will stabilize your defenses through the final night.

Recommended Monarch Loadout for Totend

Totend sends dense packs of fast melee fodder alongside airborne spirits, making single-target builds ineffective. Equip a weapon capable of wide area damage and pair it with defensive and structural perks.

Use your monarch as an active sweeper. Kite dangerous targets and clear swarms near your front lines while letting automated defenses finish off bypassed enemies.

Early Economy: Balancing Mills and Keep Defenses

Greedy expansion will end runs early on Totend because wandering enemies easily destroy exposed resource buildings on outer routes.

1. Establish secure housing first: Spend your gold on Nights 1 and 2 upgrading the Town Center and building houses clustered close to the central keep. This secures base income without creating vulnerable targets on the map fringes.
2. Build military production before Night 4: Route your early house income directly into unlocking your first barracks and guard towers before expanding outward.
3. Cluster mills near natural bottlenecks: When expanding into farming plots, choose plots situated behind defensible choke points. Avoid building isolated mills in open marshland unless your monarch plans to defend that lane for the entire night.
4. Choose defensive mill traits: If an agricultural plot sits near your outer perimeter, select upgrades that offer defensive utility or thorns damage to punish stray attackers rather than pure income multipliers.

Countering Phasing Spirits and Flying Enemies

Totend's most dangerous threat comes from flying wraiths and spirits that ignore walls and fly directly toward your Town Center.

• Deploy anti-air ranged units: Station Hunters or Longbow Archers within the courtyard surrounding your Town Center. Hunters provide high bonus damage against airborne units and reposition quickly, while Longbow Archers engage targets from long distances before they start attacking buildings.
• Specialize inner towers: Upgrade inner towers into rapid-fire ballistas or dedicated anti-air structures. Avoid heavy siege mortars inside the base, as slow projectiles frequently miss fast-moving airborne targets.

Choke Point Management and Wall Fortification

Totend features narrow corridors between stone ruins that create natural bottlenecks. Wall off these paths to funnel ground forces into concentrated firing zones.

Position melee troops—such as Spearmen or Flail Warriors—just behind your reinforced gates and set them to hold position. If left on free-roam behavior, melee units charge through open gates into ranged fire and explosive enemies. Keeping them anchored inside the gate threshold forces incoming ground swarms to bunch up directly beneath your towers and your monarch's area attacks.

If an outer wall collapses, do not risk your monarch trying to repair it under heavy fire. Retreat immediately to your secondary defensive ring, regroup with surviving archers, and hold the inner choke point.

Surviving the Final Wave

The final night on Totend launches elite bone golems, large skeleton waves, and flying phantoms from multiple angles at once.

• Consolidate all ranged forces: Before dusk, pull all archers from forward outposts back to the inner ring around your keep so they do not get picked off in isolation.
• Kite heavy siege golems: Ride out ahead of the main army to intercept large siege golems. Draw their aggro and lead them in circles beneath active tower fire to keep them away from your walls.
• Use crowd control on swarms: Trigger your weapon's active abilities directly into the thickest clusters of ground enemies to relieve pressure on your frontline infantry.
• Protect the Town Center: Keep an eye on your core health bar. If split packs of spirits bypass your frontline engagement, peel away immediately to wipe them out before returning to your kiting route.