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CastleStorm – Free to Siege – Tips and Cheats: The Strategy Guide

CastleStorm – Free to Siege is a new castle defense game for the iOS and Android platforms. There is a load of variety in the levels, ranging from Angry Birds-esque “destroy the castle” stages to side-scrolling hack-and-slash stages, to more traditional levels where you release troops and let them do their work. Read on for some tips and tricks for CastleStorm – Free to Siege!

Every stage has three stars that you can earn – one for simply beating the stage and the others from side tasks, such as collecting a certain number of shots in a row or killing enemies using a specific projectile, or finishing within a specified time limit. You don’t have to earn all of these stars at once. Go back after beating a stage, and focus on completing one of the side tasks per round to gradually earn every star.

For those stars that are too tough to earn, skip them and play through other stages, working to earn more stars as you go. The more stars you earn, the more troops and weapons you unlock, and when you beat stages (whether they are replayed or not replayed), you earn more coins which can then be used to upgrade what you have. Go back to the tougher stars/stages, after a few upgrades, and try to beat them again, and they will be easier to beat.

Gems are the premium currency of the game. If you want to throw a few bucks the developer’s way to support them, buy some gems and then use them to unlock weapons early, but if you want to get free gems, go to the gem store and work your way through the offer wall. Almost all of the offers will be free to complete, and the free ones won’t require any payment information.

As a default, blood is turned off in this game; however, if you go to the options menu, you can turn the blood on

When you’re trying to get a good kill streak going, the fastest way to lose that kill streak is trying to deal with a fast enemy. Concentrate your fire on the slow enemies, while instead switching to troop mode for the faster enemies, and sending them out to deal with ’em.

Shoot as quickly and as accurately as possible because when you hit a 10x killing streak, you will go into a shooting frenzy, enabling you to fire spears over and over and over again without having to reload. Once you hit the frenzy, use more than one finger at a time to tap the screen in order to shoot as quickly as possible.