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Few Spears

Fifteen waves without a single soldier: every Barracks foundation pulled down, the towers hold.

Few Spears achievement emblem

Few Spears
15 waves held, at most 12 soldiers at once.

"Waves held" is a clock, not a score: the first wave is due at tick 1,200 and one more every 640 ticks, beaten or not, so wave 15 is due at tick 10,160 (28:13). The soldier limit is a peak: 13 soldiers alive at any one moment of the run ends the attempt, even if they die at once.

Why not just set an Army cap?

By hand you can: Orders → Army cap to 12 or lower before your first Barracks trains anyone. With the autopilot at the wheel you cannot: it rewrites every order each tick and recruits without a cap. So the recorded run leaves the autopilot to build and pulls down every Barracks foundation it lays. No Barracks, no soldiers: only its line trains them. The Watchtowers hold the line.

The run, in order

  1. New Game, seed 7, Begin. Press F1 for the autopilot and 3 for speed ×8.
  2. Watch for a Barracks foundation. The first came at 1:10 (tick 421), right after the opening Watchtowers. Point at it and press X while it is still a site.
  3. Keep doing it: the recorded run pulled down 65. Half of each foundation's cost comes back, but the holding stays small: the autopilot keeps spending on the Barracks it wants.
  4. Survive. The Watchtowers do the fighting; no soldier is ever trained.
  5. Few Spears unlocks at 28:15 (tick 10,171), as wave 15 comes due.
The small holding at tick 3738, no soldiers
Tick 3,738: towers, homes and workshops, and not one soldier.

The recorded run

One game on seed 7 from a fresh profile, played by the game's autopilot (F1) at ×8, with each new Barracks foundation pulled down with the pointer and X. The run is left from the pause menu once the achievement is announced, and the video ends on the in-game Achievements screen. The badge on every frame says so; the game's own music, no commentary.

The Achievements screen, The Sundered tab: Few Spears and Held the Line I lit
The same profile's Achievements screen, The Sundered tab: Few Spears lit.

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