This was an interesting run, for a few reasons.
While I have seen several people aim for and occasionally reach units with 99/99 stats, with these big boned skeletons Calcium Elementals here... as I boosted their health as much as I could, I intentionally avoided boosting their attack at all. This meant, no using milk; Farmers only. In addition to the 3 level 3 Farmers giving each of these guys an extra 4 health every turn, once I had everything set up, I would repeatedly buy 2 extra Farmers to give one of them an extra 3 health (1 for the first Farmer, 2 for the second that upgraded it to level 2), then sell the extra level 2 Farmer. Also, no upgrading them at all, keeping their starting damage at 2... which doubled the amount of time these three were able to stall.
This resulted in the game going on an absolutely ludicrous 28 turns (also having an even more absurd 80 buildings, thanks to all those Farmers). And thus, the King had/was supposed to have so much health that... the extra hearts (pre-emptied because of the 99 stat cap) completely covered the top lane!
Anyway, as for the King fight... I ended up using 2 of my 9 upgraded Blessings. Could have done it with just 1, the first reduced him to just 1 HP left, but I figured it would be best to let my best soldier actually win the fight rather than it and the king getting a mutual kill.
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Thank you! The "Hyperfixate on Bat Curses" step was what I couldn't figure out; most of the other stuff I already did even in the course of a normal run. Except for the spying... that I find only rarely useful, especially in the early game, especially if I have any amount of Bat Curse. Oh, and yes, you CAN have enough or even too many Mausoleums... once they start getting in the way of placing other things! 3 level 3 Mausoleums for a total of +12 gold per turn was about the limit. But anyway, yeah, with a full set of level 3 Bat Curses, this was trivial:
(Twelfth Cycle of Glory is the final cycle, for anyone who didn't know)This is probably the oddest build I've made, but it's actually surprisingly extremely powerful:
Personal offensive power, range, armor, block, healing, buffing, debuffing, hordes of summons, this guy's got it all. By the end, I was flooding almost the entire floor with my summons, taking almost no damage (thanks to Barbarism), instantly healing what little damage I did take, freezing every enemy who came anywhere within four squares of me, blasting everything across the floor with Astral/Ice/Fire damage every time I stood still or attacked. No idea how well it would work on earlier cycles (in particular the first one), but this got me through cycle eleven no problem.
...nevermind, still going, this game is way too addicting. Incidentally, for the fifth cycle... I managed to beat the final boss and all of his minions with just two attacks. Psiblade Pugilist Psychonaut wearing a Robe of Dreams is... absurd. Not even just absurdly powerful, though it is, it's... I attack one enemy, and then I am teleport spamming all over the map, throwing around Psychic/Astral beams all over the place until whatever I hit is dead. Seriously, try it if you can, it's hilarious. King of Many Colors is impressive for needing to be hit a second time before dying, though even that is just because the many Demons he started the "battle" with redirected a bunch of attacks away from him on the first hit.
55 floors, 6 King Cleavers, 9 Queen Cleavers, 2 Rolls of Duct Tape, so many Hercule Pavises I eventually started just ignoring them rather than collecting more, 6 Rage on the most used King Cleaver and 2 Haste on the most used Hercule Pavise... and yet, through all this, I never saw even a single Chef's Hat.
My best run so far, The Triple Ninja:
Alas, though The Triple Ninja was able to erode Badger Boss and a dozen or so of his many minions after a hilarious, extremely long fight, just one damn Snake is too much, because Poison can not be dodged. There really is a serious lack of ways to handle Poison damage...