Legendary Hoplite: A short achievement guide v1.0

This is my 2nd steam guide, so take it easy and feel free to suggest.
Before the guide, I’d like to say a few thing about this game. It had potential, all the gameplay, equipments, skills, units, synergies… but all those fall off quickly after a while. In middle and late game, it’s simply a throwing projectiles, using the highest level weapon that fit your playstyle and building your strongest formation to bash through levels.
And when you’re here, looking for guides, I think either you’re stuck or fed up with the level or the game. So what I want to say is, just play it how you want.
Play it on normal? Good! Harder? Great! Insane? You’re gonna have hard times to win. Easy? Be my guest! Peaceful? Fantastic choice!
Don’t turn it into a chore for achievements after you’ve finished enjoying the game, the achievements aren’t based on difficulties, and no one is gonna judge you. In fact, I can grind for hours for golds and items but screw it, I don’t have time. So I turned it down a bit starting at chapter 3 and full Peaceful after a few levels.
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So in this guide, I’ll lead you step by step to finish it as fast as possible, before you got so fed up and rage quit.

To be honest, you can just enjoy the game and leave those achievements aside as they’d require a good amount of gold to upgrade your units to the rank that can use the required skills. So you can start late at chapter III. Also, the enemies are more dense in higher levels that make some achievements easier to get (namely, those Palisades ones).
Peaceful mode helps a lot to farm without worrying of losing.
You can and should relocate your golds between units to be able to get their achievements.

1. First Step to Greatness
Lose for the first time.
=> Just don’t starting out with Peaceful and you will face your first defeat soon enough

2. Endurance Challenger
Exhaust 50 times.
=> You don’t have to try to get this, along the game till the last boss, it will be finished along the way. If not, you can play the last level and force Exhaust by using all your Stamina and getting hit.

3. Master of Timing
Call 300 waves early.
=> Calling waves early is what you will do a lot lately, not just for the extra points but also saving time. This, also will be finished along the way.

4. Coin Collector
Earn 10000 Coin.
=> I believe you’ll get this one before taking the final boss.

5. Master of Fortune
Earn 30000 Coin.
=> Same goes with above, or it might be after farming for other achievements

6. Points Collector
Earn 20 Points.
=> Points are earned through challenges. Focus on those challenges and try to finish them all in one play, you might think that you’ll come back later when you’re strong but believe me, you won’t.

7. Points Collector
Earn 40 Points.
=> Some points might be earned using Peaceful mode to save time (you can’t lose)

8. Monster Hunter
Kill 5000 enemies.
and
9. Monster Slayer
Kill 10000 enemies.
will come along the way

10. Baconator
Kill 123 pigs.
=> Pigs are enemies got transformed by level 4 witches using upper (red) upgrade. So I advise saving this to later when you can build a good line up with witches in the back row, along with the other achievement that require you to put enemies to sleep.

11. 300
Deploy 300 Phalanxes.
=> I use Phalanxes frequently and they’re cheap to deploy, decent tank. 300 is not a high amount, so this is quite easy.

12. Phalanx Spear Mastery
Phalanxes throw spears to kill 100 enemies.
=> Phalanxes using upper (red) upgrades can throw spear, play them a few level and cease your auto attack to make it faster.
13. Barrel Bomber
Use 200 Barrels.
=> This is easy, you can throw them with cheap price

14. Firework Artisan
Create 50 firework.
=> The lower (blue) upgrade make your barrel turn into firework AT LEVEL 4, and leveling up barrels require you to hit enemies with it. So ideally, this should be complete with Palisades’ ones.

15. Heavy Boulder
Collapsing Palisades kill 200 enemies.
=> Palisades lower (blue) upgrades level 5 can collapse when destroyed and hit enemies. So you will need to build it and get it destroyed to hit those melee. This should be used in the last boss level along with the next achievement. My line up was 2 line of Palisades and 1 line of witches to farm on Peaceful.

15. Elementalist
Create 50 Rocky Talos.
=> Destroyed level 4 Palisades lower (blue) upgrades will summon the golem, this process might take a few run. Remember, you can always end your run by force return to town.

16. Plants vs. Enemies
Vinegrasp root 100 enemies.
=> Palisades upper (red) upgrades will ensnare enemies using vines, so this will be done separately from the above, quite easy.

17. Archer Tactic
Build 300 Archer Towers.
=> Quite easy and straight forward

18. Beast Hunters
Archers trap 100 Beast-typed enemies.
=> Blue archers have doggo and trap, this is easy if you main Archers and Phalanxes like me.

19. The Engineer
Build 100 Stone throwers.
=> This is actually quite time consuming because you can only build 6 of them a level, with spare points, you can destroy (X) and build new one to make it faster.

20. Music Lover
Deploy 100 Musician.
=> Quite easy and straight forward. you can deploy 12 Musician at a time

21. Witching Hour
Build 100 Witches.
=> Same with Stone throwers, this is time consuming and is one of my last achievements. Using rebuild strategy while farming for other witches’ achievements to make it faster.

22. Dream Chasers
Witches put 200 enemies to sleep.
=> Can be completed along with the Pig one. Cease your fire, the dead doesn’t sleep

23. Army of the Dead
Summon 200 Ghost Warriors, Ghost Archers.
=> Another witches achievement, I think devs like this unit. This is actually easy and can be completed along the way. Trust me, you can complete all these before finished building 200 witches.

24. Cavalry Commander
Deploy 300 Cavalries.
=> Quite easy and straight forward. you can deploy 12 Musician at a time

25. Kicking Star
Cavalries kick 200 enemies.
=> Blue Cavalries can kick

26. Executioner
Cavalries behead 200 enemies.
=> Red Cavalries can insta-kill

27. Dog Trainer
Defeat Cerberus for the first time.
=> Throw stuffs at those

28. Only one left now
Defeat Stheno for the first time.
=> The timing of the mirror shield is quite hard (shortly after the ray is fired) but after you’re used to it, you can kill her.

29. Aren’t they Immortal?
Defeat Hydra for the first time.
=> Focus fire one head at a time, burn it for the 1st phase. Timing the shield E (again?!) right before the head hit you and cut it with W, 3 to 4 times and you’ll get this.

30. Firefighter
Defeat Ajax for the first time.
=> Avoid fire and throw stuffs

31. I am not an Arachnophobia
Defeat Arachne for the first time.
=> Avoid string and throw stuffs

32. Red Flag
Defeat Minotaur’s Descendant for the first time.
=> Avoid axes and throw stuffs

33. Achilles’ Mistake
Defeat Talos for the first time.
=> Avoid slashes and throw stuffs (at the weakpoint)

34. Drowning the Sea God
Defeat Triton God for the first time.
=> Avoid waves and throw stuffs

35. Double Trouble
Defeat Charybdis & Scylla for the first time.
=> Avoid stuffs and throw stuffs (kill one fast or you’ll have to fight both of them at full strength after a while)

36. The Elitist
Drop 20 Rare items.
=> The most painful one, I earned this last because of RNG. If you have any information about drop rate and map to farm, feel free to share.

37. The Hoarder
Drop 40 Uncommon items.
=> The 2nd most painful one.

38. The supreme Captain
Equip 4 Legendary items into the battlefield.
=> If you finish those challenges for bossed, this is guaranteed to be achieved.

39. Merchant or Warrior?
Sell 100 items.
=> Sell stuffs, later in game there will be a whole lot of trash to sell

40. Full Potential
Unlock 9 Hero’s Passives for every stat: STR, AGI, EDR, LDS.
=> Feel free to change difficulties if it’s the only thing stand between you and this achievement.

41, 42, 43. Use an Level 3, 4, 5 Army for the first time.
=> Easy enough