Archer Army

How to Play

• When the game starts, your army sets off with a single archer. Archers fire automatically and nonstop; there is no fire button.
• Drag left or right to move the whole army. On desktop, drag with the mouse or use the Left/Right arrow keys (A and D work too). The camera follows your army, and a side lane only comes into view when you move towards it.
• Blue plates in the right lane show +1, +2 or +3. Break one with your arrows and that many new archers run in to join you. In wave 1 the first enemy leaves the castle only after 8 seconds, so use that time to recruit. After a few waves, yellow plates worth +5, +8 or +10 and steel barrier walls with their health written on them also appear; a wall takes a while to break but grants more than 10 archers at once.
• Plates in the left lane give power-ups when you break them: lightning plates give energy, orange plates double your fire rate for 10 seconds, red plates double your damage and green reinforcement plates add 3, 5 or 7 full-power golden archers for 15 seconds. Rare gold-framed plates give triple power and purple plates fivefold.
• Elemental creatures now and then come down the road with the enemy soldiers. The tag above each one shows which upgrade it carries and at which level. Shoot the creature down and that upgrade goes up one level; if it reaches your front line it stops there and attacks your archers.
• The Frost Giant grants Frost Arrow, which slows the enemies you hit. The Stone Golem grants Power Arrow, which raises the damage of every arrow. The Forest Giant grants Multi Arrow, adding one arrow per archer. The Crystal Golem grants Piercing Arrow, letting arrows pass through enemies. The Fire Spirit grants Fireball, which hurls a fireball at the densest enemy group every few seconds. The Storm Spirit grants Rapid Fire, making your archers shoot more often.
• Red soldiers march out of the castle gate and walk straight down the road, each keeping to its own path; they do not chase you. Those that line up with your army fight your front-line archers and, until they are killed, take an archer about every second; the bigger elite soldiers from wave 3 strike faster. Those that are not in line with you walk past and escape through the gate behind you; each soldier that escapes costs you one archer, each elite soldier two. That is why you should not leave the centre road empty for long.
• The energy bar at the bottom left has 10 segments and does not refill on its own: the lightning MAX plate in the left lane fills it completely, and beating the Giant Orc or the dragon gives +3. Arrow Rain costs 4, Flame Wall 5 and Knight Squad 5. Arrow Rain targets the densest enemy group automatically, or the dragon once it is on the field. Flame Wall sends a line of fire rolling from your army towards the enemy, burning everyone it passes. Knight Squad is a band of knights, 20 in stage 1, 30 in stage 2 and 40 in stage 3, who come running from behind your army, charge into the enemy, draw the enemy soldiers onto themselves and fight until they fall. Keys 1, 2 and 3 also work.
• There are 3 stages and 24 waves in total. In each stage the Giant Orc arrives at the end of wave 4 and the dragon in wave 8; stage 2 sends two giants at once and stage 3 three, and every other wave from 2 to 7 also ends with a giant (two in the later waves of stages 2 and 3). The boss health bar sits at the top of the screen. Defeat the stage 3 dragon to take the castle; lose every archer and the game ends. The button at the top right, or Esc/P, pauses the game.