We all have heard about Ase Player's legendary "Insane Mode No Upgrades" challenge. I'm proposing a challenge of a different kind - the Sword and Pick Challenge. I completed it myself in about an hour.

The Challenge

1. The only units you may train are Miners and Swordwrath.
   
2. Play on Insane Mode.
   
3. You may only upgrade your Statue, Miners, and Swordwrath.
   

To those who try it, I wish you all the best of luck on LVL 12. :)

Quote from Speedy Puzzlement

We all have heard about Ase Player's legendary "Insane Mode No Upgrades" challenge. I'm proposing a challenge of a different kind - the Sword and Pick Challenge. I completed it myself in about an hour.

The Challenge

1. The only units you may train are Miners and Swordwrath.
   
2. Play on Insane Mode.
   
3. You may only upgrade your Statue, Miners, and Swordwrath.
   

To those who try it, I wish you all the best of luck on LVL 12. :)

I've tried everything except archers before and have made it to the final level but have never passed it. Only swords would be insane :O Archers are just too essential :P

Lol, it took me several tries but I beat LVL 12 with max swordsman and unupgraded everything else, swords + miners only.

When the big giant comes, you have to use 1 swordsman and duel him alone. Using 30 at once will wonk up his AI and make him less predictable. (And they all die in 1 hit.) Jump attack only after he uses the dead body to swing, club and stomp are too fast. Takes so long because he has like 15,000 HP. :(

Strategy for LVLs 1-11 with Swordwrath and Miners only is to force the enemy into Garrison mode and then use a max speed Swordwrath to dodge their castle arrows. (Stand at their leftmost gold pile, then go all the way up and all the way down.) They will never exit Garrison because your Swordwrath will train faster than anything they can train, so they will always calculate to be at a numerical disadvantage and stay in Garrison. You can then get a 32 Swordwrath army and crush their statue before reinforcements arrive. (Reinforcements are fatal on Ice Hills).

PS: Jump attack is so overpowered. :)