Max Deadmines Dungeon - Maiev Shadowsong

Roles

Build Cycle

1

2

3

3

Shortest Cycle

9

4

5

6

Playable Anywhere

Level 1, Mr. Smite
Relic: Stormwind Commendation (Great Find!)
Units: Defias Bandits, Prowler, Darkspear Troll, Mountaineer, Murloc Tidehunters, Spiderlings, (Stealth) Stonehoof Tauren

Strategy:
Mr. Smite paces along the top of the map while stealth Trolls, Defias Bandits, and Stonehoof Taurens protect him on both fronts.

Periodically, a stealth Stonehoof Tauren will saunter across a pipe between the first and second lane. This is a clear bath to your base. The best way to stop this is to drop Whelp Eggs on the pipe someplace. Usually, Whelp Eggs don't drop the a Tauren, but they weaken it significantly.

Counter Murloc Tidehunters, Mountaineer, Darkspear Troll, and Spiderlings with S.A.F.E. Pilot or Fire Elemental if they lose their tank.

Taking this map can rely on switches and meeting stones.
When the battle starts, swap your left meeting stone to go right, across the bridge. You're not going to need the left meeting stone.

Repel the first attack, use Whelp Eggs to take the right meeting stone.
Keep a stream of units going left, swing around the bridge.
Occasionally, send units up the middle lane to mine.

Your tower and bridge forces can join at the fork. Bring a Kobold along and mine while you start your assault.

These mining parties are important to keep producing units. You want to control the right meeting stone to keep the fight isolated to the middle lane. Be careful not to lose your Kobold passing the bridge or right lane.

While you're keeping the heat on Mr. Smite, be prepared to deal with the respawning Darkspear Troll.

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Level 2, Cookie
Relic: Really Big Pickaxe
Units: Stonehoof Tauren, Huntress, Murloc Tidehunter, Gnoll, Prowler, Raptors, Gryphon Rider, Darkspear Troll

Strategy:
Cookie sits at the top of the map. Squads come up to Cookie looking for grub. If he's not fighting, Cookie will buff the group and send them into battle every 50 seconds.

1st- 3:25 (Left)
2nd- 2:35 (Right)
3rd- 1:45 (Left)
4th- 0:55 (Right)
5th- 0:05 (Left)

The first squad comes from the left and around 3:12, they'll be at their left tower. You want to time living bomb to go off with the group as close to the tower as possible. This will decimate their attack team and weaken the tower.

Controlling all three towers makes this battle easier. You want to split your attacks between the left and right side for whichever is a clear line to Cookie. Use living bomb to take towers, and after that to blow up the group right next to Cookie.

Once you have all three towers, drop unbound units on Cookie's open side and his health will rapidly drop.

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Level 3, Sneed
Relic: Burrowing Banner
Units: Goblin Sappers, S.A.F.E. Pilot, Molten Giant, Darkspear Troll, Stonehoof Tauren, Ogre Mage

Strategy:
When charged, the two duplicator panels disintegrate the next unit that steps on any of them and ejects six enemy copies from a conveyer below the bridge. It has a 20 second cooldown and recharges both panels.

Use Quilboar, Defias Bandits, and Kobolds the best you can to set off those panels before Molten Giants and Stonehoof Tauren get to them. Otherwise, you're gonna have a bad day.

When you're ready to take a tower, drop a S.A.F.E. Pilot, Quilboar, and Maiev all at once on different sides. This will only cost 6 if you have Maiev discounted to 1. Since it's mostly AOE, you can even try this on a lightly contested tower.

Controlling the left tower should be your first goal.
This will ease hassle on your units going up the bridge, and it will buffer your base from the conveyer riff-raff. This is a hotly contested tower and will likely switch hands multiple times. Use unbound units to keep this tower from fully rebuilding for the enemy.

Counter Molten Giants and Stonehoof Tauren with Whelp Eggs, Defias Bandits, and Quilboar, away from teleport panels. Try to keep supportive Ogre Mages away with Quilboar and S.A.F.E. Pilot.

Counter Bat Riders with S.A.F.E. Pilot or Whelp Eggs.

Once you have the left tower, you take the right tower by dropping some unbound.

After you control this tower, it's a much shorter distance to the right telepad. Keep Defias Bandits and Kobolds moving along that panel when it goes off.

Keep dropping Quilboar, Whelp Eggs, S.A.F.E. Pilots, and Maiev on Sneed and he's toast.