Deadmines Dungeon - Old Murk-Eye

Roles

Build Cycle

2

2

2

3

Shortest Cycle

9

3

3

4

Playable Anywhere

Level 1, Mr. Smite
Units: Defias Bandits, Prowler, Darkspear Troll, Mountaineer, Murloc Tidehunters, Spiderlings, 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.

Every 40 seconds, a stealth Stonehoof Tauren will saunter down a pipe clear to your base.
Drop Whelp Eggs on the pipe to weaken it significantly.

The enemy doesn't have any flying units on this map and uses a lot of stealth. Keep Faerie Dragon in the mix.

Taking this map can rely on switches and meeting stones.
When the battle starts, swap your left meeting stone to go right.
If you have to defend left, the survivors should reinforce the middle lane and secure the gold mines.

Repel the first attack, use Whelp Eggs to take the right meeting stone.
This keeps you from being ambushed on gold runs.
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.

Before you get to Smite, you have to deal with stealth units. Drop Whelp Eggs on them just before your forces get into range. It's nice to have a Faerie Dragon in the group too.

While you're keeping the heat on Mr. Smite, be prepared to deal with the respawning Darkspear Trolls. They'll pop up again in about 25 seconds.

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Level 2, Cookie
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)

Immediately grab the two chests with your cheapest unit and mine right.
You're about to be attacked at 3:15 from the left lane and you want to counter-attack and take the left or both towers if possible.

Angry Chickens are useful for grabbing chests and taking towers.

Use Quilboar and Whelp Eggs to take out the ranged units, and use Faerie Dragons and Prowlers to take out Gnolls and Stonehoof Tauren.

Once you have all three towers, split your attacks between the left and right side, whichever is a clear line to Cookie.

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Level 3, Sneed
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 either and ejects six enemy copies from a conveyer below the bridge. It has a 20 second cooldown and recharges both panels.

Use Angry Chickens, Quilboar, Murloc Tidehunters, and Kobolds the best you can to set off those panels before a Molten Giant, Ogre Mage or Stonehoof Tauren get to them... Otherwise, you're gonna have a bad day.

Keep fights with Molten Giants and Stonehoof Tauren away from teleport panels. Distract supportive Ogre Mages away with Quilboar or Whelp Eggs.
Stop lone Molten Giants with Angry Chickens.

Grabbing the chest and controlling the left tower should be your first goal.
This will ease hassle on your units going up the bridge and buffer your base from the conveyer riff-raff.
This is a hotly contested tower and will likely switch hands multiple times.

To take the right tower, you can merge the victorious left tower forces with fresh troops from the right deploy zone.

After you control this tower, it's a much shorter distance to the right telepad. When the teleporter is near active, keep inexpensive units moving along the bridge.

Murloc Tidehunters and Faerie Dragon on the bridge are a good defense if something gets through the teleporter that shouldn't.

If you're having trouble with Sneed's defense, secure the map and drop Whelp Eggs and Quilboar on him until he's done.