How to beat World Wars

Have you ever played the game World Wars? How about Dice Wars? These games are flash versions of the popular game Risk. World Wars in particular is a fun game because it allows varying number of computer players, and you can choose between four different army schemes.

How to Play
To start, let's review the basics on how to play. The ultimate goal is to conquer every territory. As a sub goal, try to acquire as many adjoining territories as possible. At the end of each turn, you receive a number of units based on the number of adjoining properties. Each territory can have from 1 to 8 units on it, they are represented as soldiers, tanks, and a bomber jet. Each territory can attack the territories immediately next to them. Troops cannot move between territories except through attacks. When you attack, one troop stays on the base, and the remaining troops move forward to the new territory. If you win, it is yours; if you lose, you lose all your troops that fought. What happens is you get the number of dice as you have troops attacking, and the defender gets as many dice as he defends with. The computer will never attack a base that has more troops than what he can attack with.

How to Win
There is a luck factor, so it's always possible to lose. But these steps will greatly improve your ability to win.
1. Be picky. Remember, green moves after you. So if all your troops are located near large green units, skip to the next map.
2. Take big changes at the beginning. If you have a large unit positioned next to other large units, attack the enemy from the beginning. Taking out their big units at the beginning severly undermines their ability to win. If you lose an important battle at the beginning, you may wish to restart the game.
3. Try to build your way into a corner, but leave good sized troops on the outer. Then, work your way back out. Don't be in too much of a rush, the enemy troops will do battle with one another, but if you spread yourself thin, they will all attack you.
4. Try to not be the smallest unit within a group of enemies. The enemy strategy is to attack as much as possible. This is their own undoing. Avoid attacking any units (after the beginning chances) that have the same or more troops as you. You will quickly find out that the computer almost always wins these battles. For example, if you have a tank unit attacking another tank unit (four against four), you will usually lose this battle.

Here is a link to play the game. It is a great game!

	World Wars
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Mushroom Farm Defender

Strategy Defense Games, also known as Tower Defense Games can be very addictive, especially when designed with fun graphics. But ultimately, it boils down to the challenge and interactivity. Most tower defense games have very limited interaction, or lower quality graphics. However, there is occassionally a great game that implements both, and offers a challenge to boot.

This leads us to Mushroom Farm Defender. A game that has fun graphics, great interaction, and provides three difficulties and three maps. There are four mushroom towers to build, each tower can be leveled up three times, and different towers can receive a different number of gems. Combination of gems provide different effects. The enemies stream through the map with a growing life meter, various speeds, and different protections against types of attacks.

Here is a link to play Mushroom Farm Defender:

	Mushroom Farm Defender
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To beat Mushroom Farm Defender at the hardest level, follow these simple steps.

1. Consider Location. Especially when you first start, place your towers where the enemies must stream past the tower twice. Also, when you first start out, place one tower near the top, and one near the bottom. Once the enemies are past the first tower, start the second wave of enemies. Starting the wave before the timer runs out gives you a few extra points to buy more towers and upgrades. As you progress, this dollar amount means little, but at the beginning of the game, play fast.

2. Level up or More Units. This is one of the most critical points in the game, should you buy more units, level up, or buy gems. On easy and medium difficulties, it is not such an important point, but on hard, it is a deciding factor in possible victory and certain death. On hard, have three of the lowest units fully leveled up before getting the next up tower. Then, build three of these towers. Level them up and phase out the little towers for the new towers. Then, introduce the third type of tower. Don't even waste your resources on the fourth tower, it won't help on hard. Do not start building the orange mushrooms until you can afford to start upgrading them. A dark green tower at level 3 will cost a total of 2800 and takes off 400 hit points. An orange tower at level 2 cost 3800 and takes off 450 hit points. Level 3 takes of 950. The fourth tower costs 12,000 to get to level 3, and barely does more damage than the orange towers.

3. Use Gems. In easy and medium modes, gems are fun, in hard, they are necessary. I like to give the dark green towers the slow ability (water and thunder gems). Then, I like to build an army of teleporters (orange mushrooms with three thunder gems) at the end of the maze. Of course, arrange them where they still get double passes on the enemies. At the top of the maze, create Instant Death towers (orange towers with one of each gem). Just keep adding towers to both ends, focusing more on the teleporters.

4. Strive to survive. Basically, it is highly likely that you will allow a few baddies to slip through to the farm. This injures your health; too many times and you will lose the farm, and the game. Accept the fact that a couple will get through and do not waste resources building towers to block one or two enemies. You will eventually lose this chase, because the placement of the helpers are not optimal. To recap, you only need one point of health left to win. :)

When you finish clearing out all the enemies on all three maps, then you will likely be in the mood to play some war games. So consider gearing up for some intense battles and play fierce tank games. So choose your bradley and cruise into battle in style.