- Estimated trophy difficulty: 5/10 (personal estimate) (Trophy Difficulty Rating Thread)
- Offline trophies: 13 (10, 2, 1)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 12-15 hours (Estimated Time to 100% Thread)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 2 (1 Normal and 1 New Game Plus)
- Number of missable trophies: None
- Glitched trophies: None
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: N/A
- Do trophies stack?: N/A
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: N/A
Ironclad Tactics is a hard to define game as it is a mixture of Tower Defense, Turn Based Strategy and a Card game. Although the game is a lot of fun and gives a great sense of achievement upon completing it, be aware that this is not an easy nor a fast game if you’re going for all of the trophies. The story is set in an alternate American civil war history where North and South fight each other with steam powered machines. The gameplay is turn based but plays out in real time so you’ll have to keep your wits about you. Before playing a mission you can select the cards that you will want to use and during the mission you deploy units on the field by choosing out of these selected cards. The order in which these cards will appear is randomly generated, so there is also a luck factor. By completing missions and secondary objectives you will earn new cards and by expanding your card deck you’ll give yourself more options to complete further missions and objectives. Complete all of the missions to beat the evil Dmitry and decide the civil war in your favor!
Step 1 – Story Campaign / Puzzle Mode
In the first step you will complete all campaign missions. The requirements to win a mission can be different, but most in most cases you will have to get ‘victory points’ which are earned by guiding your ironclads over the battlefield all the way to the other side. Pick the cards that you start the mission with carefully and if you fail keep tweaking your card deck based on your just gained experience. All missions have secondary objectives that most of the time are completely optional, but that will give you extra cards upon completion. It's advised to try and beat as many of these as possible to give yourself more options and possibly better cards. The objectives can be found with after you’ve selected a mission. Also be aware that it sometimes pays off to backtrack and complete objectives of earlier missions to get more cards. Also, note that some missions have a puzzle mode that will give you extra cards upon completion. Do these as soon as they’re available since they’re very easy and you’ll need to complete them for the Puzzle Master trophy anyway.
- Making History
- Rage Against the Machine
- Senior Steam Engineer
- Puzzle Master
Step 2 – Miscellaneous
Before starting a New Game Plus you will earn all of the miscellaneous trophies out of the way first, since none of these are available in New Game Plus. Don’t fret if you already did start it though, as you can switch between the regular campaign and New Game Plus at any given time using the globe icon in the bottom left of your screen. Chances are that you have already earned most, if not all of these trophies before even completing the main campaign, because the trophy requirements are the same as some of the mission objectives. If you did miss out on some of them it’s now time to earn these remaining trophies. You’ll soon find out that you're needing those extra cards in New Game Plus!
- Historical Preservationist
- Passive Aggressive
- With Flying Colors
- The Cow Came Home
- Gone Native
- Iron Pacifist
Step 3 – New Game Plus
The final step for your last three trophies is simply completing the New Game Plus mode. Although I must say that it’ll prove quite the task to complete this game mode. New Game Plus is a lot harder than the regular campaign and the CPU will get unfair advantages in every mission, like starting out with a few units on the board already and having a higher regeneration rate of ‘Action Points’. Be patient, learn from your mistakes and remember that most of the time it’s wiser to dodge your enemies rather than to fight them head on. You’ll get there eventually.
- Service à la Française
- San Brutal Mountain
- Legendary Steam Engineer
[PST Would Like To Thank Robinworldwide For This Roadmap]