The tactics to advance are everchanging as even if you are defeated in a run, then strike back more fiercely after gaining all the experiences and sweat from the previous runs. Even if it’s your first time playing this game, do not fret as we are going to explain everything necessary about this game and how to play it profoundly without any hiccups.
How To Play Drop Duchy?
Start a New Run and the player can choose either from Easy or Normal difficulty. Hard, Extreme, and Nightmare difficulty will be locked initially but will be unlocked as you progress.
After selecting the difficulty, players will have to choose Factions and similarly “The Duchy” will be unlocked at the beginning. The Starting Deck of each faction is different and so are the Faction Quests. After completing each Region, players can Select a Card to add it in their Deck for future runs. It can be skipped or rerolled.
Check The Decks Or Cards
At the bottom left corner, the Deck Overview will notify how many cards you own that will randomly appear on the board as a block. Hover on each cards to check their ranges, effects and the number of tiles they can influence before entering the regions.
After entering a Region, there will be a Prep Phase where you can see the number of Terrain, Enemy Decks, and your buildings. Hover on each Decks to learn their effects in order to be productive or counter them according to your choices.
The Cards will have resources listed on the left part of the card which is a number of resources required to Upgrade the card. Secondly, the number on the right side of the card signifies the Level of the card.
How To Play Board Tetris?
Upon entering the map, players can notice the road and regions that they can travel after selecting their paths. Hover over the regions to learn about the enemies, and ground or terrain type which will be delivered to you when playing the tetris board game.
Align a type of terrain strategically to a corner in order to combine it with the cards or buildings that prove to be useful. Players can also Reserve any block type by pressing “E“.
Controls
- Press “W” to rotate the blocks.
- Press “Spacebar” to drop the blocks quickly.
- Press “S” to drop the blocks slowly one grid at a time.
- Press “A” to move the blocks left.
- Press “D” to move the blocks right.
- Press “E” to add it to Reserve.
Resources
Successfully creating a row with the blocks will let you gain corresponding resources such as Forest will drop Wood and Plains will drop Food. To gain Gold coins, players are required to collect Units which will be converted into Gold coins at the end of the match.
These are the basic ways to earn the resources, however, if you have obtained specific Production cards then the earnings will go up.
Combat Mechanic
During your route, there would be regions that are infested with enemy troops. Avoiding the combat will let you gather resources peacefully, however, the boss will gain additional units. Therefore, the strategic choice made will strengthen or weaken the boss at the end of the route.
The number shown on the Hostile Regions i.e. 25+ or 50+ is the number of enemy units that reside in the region. Similarly, if you hover on the Boss region, the number of enemy units will be displayed as 75+ or 100+.
Rules Of Combat
Each military troops have an advantage over other troops i.e.
- The Sword defeats the Arrow.
- The Arrow defeats the Halberd.
- The Halberd defeats the Sword.
The advantage over the enemy troops will be 50%, meaning 10 Sword troops can equalize 15 Arrow troops.
Players can combine troops to generate a single type of troops in order to defend and defeat the enemy troops. The Military troops that enter other Military troops will be converted into the last type of troops. For example-
5 Swords + 5 Arrow = 10 Arrow.
At the Combat Phase, arrange or assign all the troops paths that they will take in order. Complete all the sequences or order of combat without leaving any troops. Start the Battle.
If the enemy troops are left after the battle then the HP will be depleted and the units remaining will be converted into gold.