Anomaly: Warzone Earth

This is a relatively simple walkthrough as there's not a lot of complexity to this game. It will only require 1 playthrough of the campaign, 1 playthrough of the challenges, and a playthrough of each of the survival missions.

The key to this game is understanding that even the most highly armoured unit is completely useless. The name of the game is damage and shields.

The unit configuration that's best for 99% of the game is the following:

Crawler, Shield, Crawler, Crawler, Shield, Support

Purchase order and upgrade path may vary depending on the needs of the level and available funds but are relatively consistent.

Purchase/Upgrade order:

1. Crawler

2. Shield

3. Upgrade Crawler (or buy 2nd Crawler)

4. Upgrade Crawler

5. Buy 2nd Crawler (or if already purchased upgrade 1st crawler)

6. If possible, upgrade 1st crawler to max level, if not, upgrade 2nd Crawler

7. Upgrade 2nd Crawler

8. Upgrade 2nd Crawler (if already done, upgrade 1st Crawler to max)

9. Upgrade 2nd Crawler to max

10. Upgrade Shield to max

11. Purchase 3rd Crawler, Shield, Support in any order

12. Upgrade Support to max

13. Upgrade Shield to 2nd level

14. Upgrade Crawler to max

15. Upgrade Shield to max

Rinse and repeat for just about every level. There's the odd level where you're given specific units and you need to make do but it doesn't happen often.

Dealing with towers:

Blasters - a single shot from a maxed out Crawler is all it takes to deal with these.

Scorchers - Smoke grenades hide your units to an extent, this is the best strategy for them, though the moment your units fire they can be targeted.

Behemoths - Walk behind them as your units approach, you'll take some damage and may die (you have unlimited lives) but it'll take time for them to swing around to target the approaching units. Once they're about to take out the shields, drop a decoy.

Stormray - These caused me the most trouble, they can rip through multiple units pretty quickly. Most abilities will work on surviving these towers, though I'd avoid using air strikes on them as it takes 2 to fully destroy them.

Hackers/Energizers - Run in right away and use air strikes on them until they're dead. Take out Energizers first and then Hackers.

If you haven't read the general tips page, please go do so now, as it will tell you everything you need to know about completing this game with the least amount of trouble. All achievements can be done on casual difficulty.

The following achievements will happen over the course of the campaign

First Blood10 (10)

Destroy 10 Towers

• Unlocked by 1,144 tracked gamers (100% - TA Ratio = 1.00) 1,148

Collector10 (10)

Collect 20 abilities

• Unlocked by 1,129 tracked gamers (98% - TA Ratio = 1.01) 1,148

This Stuff Is Good11 (10)

Collect 14 Carusaurum caches

• Unlocked by 1,031 tracked gamers (90% - TA Ratio = 1.05) 1,148

Pimp Your Squad13 (10)

Fully upgrade a unit

• Unlocked by 692 tracked gamers (60% - TA Ratio = 1.29) 1,148

Earth Saviour45 (30)

Complete Story Mode Campaign

• Unlocked by 513 tracked gamers (45% - TA Ratio = 1.50) 1,148

During the campaign, a survival mission, or challenge take a moment to knock out these two achievements:

Blinded Enemy12 (10)

Use one Smoke Screen ability to protect 6 units

• Unlocked by 738 tracked gamers (64% - TA Ratio = 1.25) 1,148

With Style13 (10)

Use 4 different abilities simultaneously

• Unlocked by 638 tracked gamers (56% - TA Ratio = 1.34) 1,148

There's not much to say about these two, smoke screen in the middle of your six units or as they're rounding a corner for blinded enemy. With Style just use all four abilities with air strike being last.

As you progress through the campaign you will unlock the various challenges and survival missions. By the time you've completed the campaign everything will be unlocked. They can be done in any order.

Baghdad survival missions are very straight forward, there are 10 and 18 waves respectively. Save your air strikes for the Hackers/Energizers that appear and make sure you destroy as many towers and pick up as much cash as you can on each wave without running out of time. I always left about 45 seconds on the last ETA marker to ensure I could go around the generator a 2nd time if needed.

Mayhem Unleashed29 (20)

Complete Baghdad Mayhem

• Unlocked by 540 tracked gamers (47% - TA Ratio = 1.46) 1,148

Mayhem Rearmed38 (20)

Complete Baghdad Mayhem Rearmed

• Unlocked by 323 tracked gamers (28% - TA Ratio = 1.88) 1,148

The final survival mission is structured more like a campaign with choices of difficulty vs time required to complete. Go left, it's easier but takes longer. Go right, it's harder but quicker. I recommend going right as even the most difficult section is pretty easy. Destroy every tower you can, pick up every bit of cash, and on the "ammo pickup" sections, go left and only left.

A Bridge Too Far38 (20)

Complete Tokyo Raid

• Unlocked by 315 tracked gamers (27% - TA Ratio = 1.91) 1,148

Next up are the 6 challenges. Videos are below if you have any trouble.

Beat the Challenge37 (20)

Complete all Tactical Trials

• Unlocked by 342 tracked gamers (30% - TA Ratio = 1.83) 1,148

Lastly, the epic 5,000 tower kills. There are two methods to accomplish this final achievement:

Avenger63 (30)

Destroy 5000 towers

• Unlocked by 259 tracked gamers (23% - TA Ratio = 2.10) 1,148

1) The fastest method (~48 towers per minute): Solution for Avenger in Anomaly: Warzone Earth

2) The method requiring the least attention (~28 towers per minute): Solution for Avenger in Anomaly: Warzone Earth

Either one will get you there pretty quickly, it will take an hour or two to grind out depending on how well you did in the rest of the game. Those who did well are punished with more tower kills to grind out.

Congrats! You've done Anomaly: Warzone Earth!