TD Map 1: Halloween Harvest

Tower Defense Map 1 (Northern Borderlands) is a 9x17 scenario map situated around a pond decorated to look like a pumpkin. This is the first Tower Defense (TD) level of TinyGroove TD, and is themed after the Halloween holiday.

Mission Background
This Floran urban brawl plays out across 8 phases as the player's objective is to locate Sedge's stronghold among (seemingly) several decoy Strongholds. The player learns (as the map unfolds) that Sedge owns all of the strongholds, and the map objective changes to destroy all Floran Strongholds. Furthermore, it's revealed that the Channelwood is a veritable Floran City, and Sedge uses the Strongholds to exert his influence over the Floran denizens. The Strongholds fall within 7 neighborhood "Districts", each of which provides its holder specific battlefield advantages. Wresting conservatorship of these Districts from Sedge and using their advantages to aid your victory will accelerate your successful S-Rank attempt. Beginning with a phased deployment with the player starting in the southeast arriving by barges, the 8 phases are:

Video Play-through
The following YouTube video play-through was uploaded by Derek, the campaign's creator and provides helpful hints, outlines convenient strategies at different phases of the 20-turn tower defense:

Strength Upgrades (2)
Conditions: Crack the Channelwood's Secret to set it ablaze. Then, let the forest fire rage for at least 15 days before acquiring Artefact 'W' to quell the blaze. The game will let you know when this happens and award this achievement. You need to recruit Nuru in this mission to get this achievement (even if you have recruited her before on a previous play-through of the map), so make sure you have defeated her twice before on Map 11 and Map 17 to satisfy the prerequisites to recruit her.

Knowledge Upgrades (2)
Conditions: Capture all of the Channelwood's 25 Strongholds across all 7 districts and win. Don't be overzealous in your late-phase advance. You need to have other Floran units remaining on the map when you topple the last Floran Stronghold to get this achievement, as the final victory conditions in the Channelwood are to defeat all enemies. Make sure the Floran aren't only left with one Stronghold remaining (and no units left), or else the map will end before you can erect one of your own in its place to get this achievement!

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