Hero Academy Strategy - Advance

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With the Hero Academy ported to Android, it's time to get ready for battle.

Super good guides but difficult to search and refer every time.

Extracted from http://forums.robotentertainment.com/showthread.php?91-New-player-assistance-thread-guides-sign-up-to-help-new-players-or-receive-help

Credits to Tabby_nat for compilation.
Credits to ArtNJ, Slftfr, Johnjanitor and Nwai

• Council
• Dark Elves
• Dwarves
• Tribe
• Shaolin
• TF2

They always said Crystal Kill (CK) vs Technical Knock-Out (TKO), but it has to flow from board domination or play the board.

I have been playing for a while now perhaps I can share some of my experience.

• Council - CK (even when I am losing), perhaps of the Knight. They cannot easily dislodge the knight except impaler. Even the Knight themselves as most put a unit behind.
• Dark Elves - TKO (a few with CK if they suddenly become very defensive)
• Dwarves - CK (my worst team, Paladin/Annihilator always came late), others using Dwarves won me a lot (whether I'm aggressive or not)
• Tribe - TKO (lately being losing esp. notice that it has no mass destruction. They just clump up and defend hard)
• Shaolin - TKO (against me, after Dragon and Bamboo my healers)
• TF2 - TKO/CK

Hero Academy on Android

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Finally, the much awaited release of Hero Academy on Android. Enjoy!

Now I get pair up with more players.

Hero Academy Strategy - Shaolin Strategy

Lost to a very good Shaolin player recently while I was using TF2. I thought I had the upper hand as I jarated and killed both Taoist. One Taoist left.

• Lone Toaist parked on deployment square surrounded by last crystal, units and Shadow, impossible to stomp and resurrection by Shadow. Learnt that, medic can do the same next time on deployment square.
• Poisoned one of my medics. I believe the other medic was hit by Windblade with bamboo in front. Killed both my medics with Dragons + Bamboo (one out, another later).
• Without medic support, killed my units without stomping.
• Killed his units and stomp, his units combo and Shadow converted my Heavy and retaliated. After that, don't dare to be so impulsive.
• Used my converted Heavy to mass damage my units. Finally killed Heavy and stomp. Can't heal = dead.

One of the best loses!
I even complimented my opponent for teaching me so much.

Advanced Tip: A resurrected Monk (loses all equipment) is treated as a new unit and can tag another unit for -250. Enjoy.

Hero Academy Strategy - Dwarves, Tribes, Shaolin

Hero Academy Strategy - Tribes, Dwarves, Shaolin

I was playing Hero Academy quite a fair bit of late. Boy I had many good loses this week. I will share with you the superb strategies used by these players for Tribes, Dwarves & Shaolin.

TF2/Dwarves (I) vs Tribes

• TF2 has no mass damage spells like fireball/soul harvest/dragonfire like Council, Dark Elves, Shaolin. Tribes mass deploy units for chain healing. Unless TF2 can link 2 Medics to a Demoman, I could not defeat this strategy. Also TF2 & Dwarves suffer from spiked damage i.e.  need to heal or bubble burst.
• Tribe's Witch, similar to DE Necro, can remote stomp at a distance.
• Tribe's Meat or/and Rage with Tidal Wave can kill an upgraded unit easily if not careful
• Orc can auto-kill a Paladin below 50%

Dwarves (opponent)

• To be continued...

Hero Academy - Dark Elves vs Team Fortress 2 (DE vs TF2) Strategy

Strategy for Dark Elves vs Team Fortress 2

Credits to Jonathan Stagliano

• I play against TF2 extremely well by boosting HP so high that their debuff or spy can't one hit.
• They tend to bunch units together, soul harvest them to add to your buffed units HP making them hard to take out, then add health potion to your best units (the Wraith can now get upwards of 1400HP).
• Keep back against walls/other units for spies.
• Take out the healers with a prejudice. 2 anyway, but they have respawn tokens. You have to take the risk.
• They only get two Medics. So chip away from a distance until they pop out the other Medic. Then, work your way to kill & stomp them. Sometimes, it means sacrificing one of your best units to get the job done. The stomping can stop once both Medics are dead. Just don't leave a Medic in a K'O state if they have revive tokens left - Graeme Feeney
• When healers are linked to other units, soul harvest to delink them.
• Use impaler/necromancer combo to pull and phantom.
• Bait their jarate with +2 units or a naked wraith - once they've used those, they really can't stop a +3 VM - credits to Blake Stannard

Start a game if you want Johnnyoc.

My comments: The biggest problem I have with them as Council is that they can take out non-upgraded units easily and then, fly in with a scout to stomp and get away "scout-free". That's really annoying as hell! The strategy for CL vs TF2 I read, uses Wizards. Let me test it out. Btw, my gamer name in HA is leathergloves1.

*My comments: I have been playing for quite a lot now with TF2 and against TF2 with DE. When jarate has not been used up, spread your equipment around. Avoid triple upgrading your units e.g. Void Monk or Wraith. One of the units I like to put a helm or/and soul stone on is impaler. It makes them more hardy to be killed in 4 vanilla hits and they can also inflict natively 300 damage which will kill most vanilla TF2 units in 3 hits.

Hero Academy TF2 Strategy Guide

I am playing Hero Academy using the free Council. Recently, one the teams that caused me a big headache and also least documented on how to deal/play with them is Team Fortress 2 or in short TF2.

I have extracted the following to help those who wants to play or deal with them.

Credits to ArtNJ for the deep analysis.

Hero Academy (Video)

Just discovered this gem for strategy games. However, only multiplayer available. Reminds me of battle chess. I will post more later.