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Made it to something like level 42, which is near the end.

This was my set-up for easy:



That is why even medium is much harder.

Oddly, those rapid-fire towers don't seem as useful on the other difficulties.

I can only get to 77 even on 10,000 gold.

It's funny that 3K Gold is "Challenge" while 10K gold is "fun", while it seems to me that 10K gold is much harder.

I had some insomnia tonight (I think Italian food can give me indigestion), and I played a round of this game.

My idea was to define the maze before starting, so I'd only need to power up during the game. (Deleting and replacing is too time consuming). I divided the screen in half, and would open and close either half with a pellet tower to "juggle" (like I guess what HiRider meant) enemies near the end of the game back and forth. I've gotten much better at that.



I also had the vast majority of the maze be anti-air towers, since I thought flying enemies would be the most difficult thing.

I made it to level 91, and the ONLY enemies that got through were flying ones.

One thing I see is that only the most powerful Bash towers were really doing anything to damage ground enemies at the end of the game. I could have had fewer of those to put more money into fighting aircraft. But even the most powerful anti-air towers do almost nothing at that point. Maybe more frost towers could have helped, too.

I don't know if I *needed* the strong pellet guns in the corners, either. I kind of liked the idea of being able to at least somewhat damage enemies away from the powered up bash towers, but they might not have really had much effect.

I beat Hard mode! I basically used the same strategy and maze I tried for the 10K challenge. At first, it's much harder, since you have to start with a pellet maze, build it while you're being attacked, and upgrade. But since it only goes to level 60, it ends up easier. I think the only things that got through were airborne enemies, and spawns that were randomly knocked out of the maze.

A little further to go.

All but won:

Legitimately beat Survivor, with no deaths:



Beat Spawn, which was again a case of the "fun" game being harder than the "challenge" one. I lost a few while building the maze (but none after that). Spawn also had bosses.





And I made it to level 98 of 10K!

What mostly killed me where the flying enemies that moved horizontal. I obviously can't make a big stripe of anti-air things horizontally like I did vertically (there'd be no more room for the maze), but maybe I could put a few extra ones in that horizontal region.

It's weird -- it looks like I was wasteful with my money in that game (why did I power up the squirt cannons? Why did I powerup the pellet guns at the top? Why use a squirt cannon maze instead of a pellet gun maze? Why did I need three bash towers at the top?). But I fully powered up every boost tower and anti-air tower, and I for some reason wasn't able to do that in later attempts. Maybe the two bash towers on the sides weren't powered up very much (I can't tell with them being overlapped by enemies there).