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[Albatross]

Hello! I quite like this game. So much so that I'm actually playing through it a second time, and am noticing something I must've glossed over the first time; the survival levels.

I'm at the first one right now, and frankly I'm at my wits end trying to work out how you're supposed to survive for more than three minutes - the difficulty VERY quickly ramps up and more and more units go flying through my carefully crafted defenses despite my best efforts. Now, lacking a guide, I thought I'd ask here; is there some kind of trick to these levels, or am I wasting my time trying to last more than a scant few minutes or so? Honestly the best I can manage with any of them is about three minutes at most. Appreciate any response, I'm going to go back to playing now. 

[RinkuHero]

I actually think three minutes is very good for most of the survival levels, from what I remember. Most normal levels are less than that, so it's not really a "scant" three minutes (in comparison to most levels).

I think possibly what may have caused your confusion is the relatively / seemingly low amount of money that those levels reward you with, which may make you think that the score is poor. But that is supposed to be that way: each campaign works its way up from low cache to higher cache, so don't be dismayed if (for example) you only start the first level of campaign 2 with a few hundred cache when you started the last level of campaign 1 with several tens of thousands of cache.

However, if you like, I can give you my own scores for each of those survival levels. I'll play through them today and tell you how well I managed to do on them.

[RinkuHero]

Survival Stage : Time
1 : 178 sec
2 : 159 sec
3 : 181 sec

I tried the first three. 3 min seems to be the upper limit, yeah.

[Albatross]

Ah, yes, it was probably the low starting score that was getting me - given how much even a circuit point can be simply to place, a few hundred hardly seemed like enough. It works out, of course, I was just wondering if I was doing something wrong. On to the next campaign, then! 

Oh, and, I actually found I can get up to around four minutes on the first one...its tricky, of course, but its given me a new appreciation for the cut + strategist point combo.  Thanks for the response.