# Strategies

> Blockade Brigade strategy guides: the first ten waves, terrain and height, gold and Miners, armour, shields and flyers, power and heat, and beating the bosses.

- Page: https://blockadebrigade.com/strategies
- Site: Blockade Brigade, a tower defense game for Windows PC (https://blockadebrigade.com/)
- Last updated: 2026-10-27
- Text generated: 2026-11-02 06:39 UTC

Short guides for holding the line. Every name and number here comes from the game itself: its tower and enemy data (the same catalog the Field Guide reads) and its rules.

### Start here

- [Your first ten waves](https://blockadebrigade.com/strategies/first-ten-waves): Getting started. Where to put your first Cannon Tower, why bends matter, what turns up before wave ten and what to research first.
- [Terrain is a weapon](https://blockadebrigade.com/strategies/terrain): The battlefield. Every level up is +8% damage and half a tile of range: hills, platforms, the bulldozer and the Airport's ground work.
- [Gold, Miners and reward cards](https://blockadebrigade.com/strategies/economy): Gold. Where gold comes from, how Miners earn and run dry, and how to spend reward cards, rerolls and the Reward Store.
- [Every tower's job](https://blockadebrigade.com/strategies/tower-roles): Towers. What each tower does best, the second thing it is good at, and how to build a team that covers crowds, armour and flyers.

### Counters and systems

- [Armour, shields and flyers](https://blockadebrigade.com/strategies/armour-shields-flyers): Counters. Three kinds of trouble, the enemies that bring them and the towers that answer each one.
- [Power and heat](https://blockadebrigade.com/strategies/power-and-heat): Systems. What each tower draws, which towers go dark first, Power Plants, and cooling hot guns with Cold Snap and water.
- [Worm, Blimp, Mech](https://blockadebrigade.com/strategies/bosses): Bosses. The Giant Worm, the Blimp Boss and the Mech Boss: when they come, what they do and how to see them off.

The Clanker says

I have read all of these guides. I am still on the other side. Make of that what you will.

Want the stats? Every tower and enemy has its own page: towers [Basic](https://blockadebrigade.com/towers/basic), [Advanced](https://blockadebrigade.com/towers/advanced) and [Utility](https://blockadebrigade.com/towers/utility); enemies [Ground](https://blockadebrigade.com/enemies/ground), [Flying](https://blockadebrigade.com/enemies/flying) and [Bosses](https://blockadebrigade.com/enemies/bosses). Or turn them round in the [Field Guide](https://blockadebrigade.com/field-guide/). Want a map to practise on? See [Maps](https://blockadebrigade.com/leaderboards/maps). Got a strategy of your own? Share it in [Discuss](https://blockadebrigade.com/discuss).

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