I don't understand Lord of Verminion at all...

[Stormfur]

I got through the tutorial and I understand I have to destroy the crystals, but I send a bunch of my minions to the shield to disable it, and they just sit there doing nothing. This game seems incredibly frustrating. Anyone else finding it that way or is it just me?

[Nalien]

When destroying the structures, the minions don't actually do anything, but they are slowly chipping away at it so long as the enemy isn't defending it as well. If they're in the red/blue square in front of the structure (or ring for crystals) they should be doing something.

The shield though, in my experience, takes a long time to destroy. The best way to destroy it is with a groups special, I think the Red Panda is what I've been using; Four of those together, power up their special, and it knocks 70% off the shield, done again and the shield is destroyed.

[Azazua_azura]

i find it fun
i'm @ challenge 5 and i pnly got a handful of minions. My only dislike is 100mpg to join and only get 150 back. should lower the cosr or raise the reward.

And the goobue minion is good it does aoe attacks. that and seeing a ton of tiny goobue take on the guildhest guebue was HILARIOUS

[Selli]

I don't really get it either. I mean, I get the basic structure (which reminds me a lot of Age of Empires, go in and destroy their defenses and then their base kinda thing), but I was never good at AoE. XD

My boyfriend has been playing it a lot (he really wants mini Twintania), but he doesn't have many monster minions and he says not having the options make it really hard, even in the early games.

[Tsukino]

I have tons of minions to choose from and the whole thing is kind of overwhelming for me. I can barely manage looking at A/B/C gates and the summoning costs, then my brain crashes when trying to figure in special attacks, minion types, and all their strength-against stats.

I can only imagine how terrible I would be at actual Lord of Vermillion.

[Stormfur]

I'm glad I'm not the only one! I wouldn't mind if they brought these things in gradually, once we get the hang if different exercises, but after the tutorial it sort of plops you down like "Here, go figure it out! -100 MGP -100 MGP -100 MGP"

[FunkYeahDragons]

Me neither, but I'm winning just through zerging it.

I have no idea how to tell how close minions are to being able to use their special so I haven't been paying attention to that. Looked for a bar or something and couldn't find it.

[Tsuga]

I think that the action bar being so huge makes the game a little confusing, because from my experience you only really need to use a few different minions. I almost wish they'd restrict us to like 6-12 minions? Maybe it's harder to balance that way.

I try to have some minions that are good against shields and the crystals, and a couple of each type. I'd say just look at what your minions are good against, and what abilities they have and experiment against other people in the non-RP mode. Don't try to spawn a million DIFFERENT minions all the time, sometimes it's just better to have a bunch of the same one (and easier to manage, because if you know that your mandragora is good against shields, for example, having a bunch of them out there means you know which of your minions to send after their shields). I found myself splitting my minions into a couple of groups, and would try to have minions near the middle to attack enemy crystals, but also to intercept any of their minions coming at my crystals, gates or shields.

I feel like as long as you're paying attention to your opponent and not JUST going for their crystals or playing defensively you should be okay. I only played a few rounds against players, won 2/3, so my strategy may be bad and I just got lucky, I don't know.

[Velox]

I found it pretty straightforward honestly. It's a game that's going to take lots and lots of practice to learn how to do properly. It's a RTS (real-time strategy) type game. It's all about math, tactics, and multi-tasking. You're playing a general leading your troops into battle. RTS games aren't for everyone though, as they take various skillsets not needed in your modern day MMO and FPS games (which are widely more popular due to how simplistic they are compared to the RTS genre). It's like a brains vs brawns thing.

[Airget]

The game design just uses some shorthands, when you attack the shield/eye you have to have the minions stand on the red pulsating platform next to the shield and they will "attack" it. It does feel janky at first but when you realize that it's honestly not that tough to comprehend.