maxgamr 
Well, I have to hand it to Ninja Kiwi – they have outdone themselves with the skillset requirement to defeat Mastery Mode….. Wow, I finally beat Mastery Mode on the MOST BASIC map – Monkey Lane using EASY GAME MODE…. I feel like a NOOB. Mastery Mode has sent me back to that place…. wow….
So, from the looks of it, Mastery Mode increases the baloon strength for every baloon to +1 (Red becomes Blue, Blue becomes Green, and so on). I think we've seen BTD5 throw that logic at us in some of the Random Missions – and I don't remember having this much trouble in the Random Missions. But, anyway, I tried and tried and tried variation after variation of tower strategy with no success – until today.
I was able to beat Monkey Lane Easy in Mastery Game mode by starting with Engineering Workshop turned on, keeping (3,2) Monkey Engineers in place until round ~47, then I did a wholesale change out to a cluster of Ninja Warriors centered around a Monkey Village with the Ninja Academy turned on.
You'll notice my cluster configuration with the
But, it wasn't up until just now that I realize I was making things a bit too hard on myself….. I was able to beat Mastery Mode without any further 'changes' to the game environment. What I didn't realize – Mastery Mode brought forward additional LAB upgrades!!!! I'll talk about that in my next post! Enjoy!
