Completing Flash Element TD, a game covered here a few days ago, is no great task; it might take several tries to get there, but blanketing the screen with combo rockets on level 39 does the trick and might leave you with a nice 13,000 points.
Strategy and Tips
But you will not get on the high score list, not even close. High scores depend on using compounding interest to build your fortunes. Once you have the gold, you can keep buying more lives, upgrading towers, whatever you need.
Walkthrough
Let’s walk through a basic route to 100K points or more. As you’ll see, the placement is not perfect and upgrades are not optimized. Had they been, the score would be better. Regardless, it will give you something on which to build your scores.
The screenshots were taken from a couple different runs through this walkthrough, so the exact placement of towers may shift from shot to shot, but the basic premise is the same. Tune to your liking.
Level 1 Sheep
One cannon, center of the left side.
Level 2 Rabid Dogs
Upgrade your cannon to level two.
Level 3 Small Boys
Add a second cannon in the lower right.
Level 4 Peasants
Upgrade right cannon to level two.
Level 5 Firework Throwers
Upgrade left cannon to level three.
Level 6 Drug Runners
Do nothing.
Level 7 Greedy Pigs
Do nothing.
After the round, upgrade the interest rate to 15%.
Level 8 Air Flying Machines
One fully-upgraded air tower dead center will take care of these creeps.
Level 9 Stags
Upgrade your right cannon to level three and sell your air tower sometime before the end of the round.
Level 10 Immune Trolls
Do nothing, you’re good here too.
Level 11 Boss, Angry Critters
Add a level three cannon in upper right. Creep leaks once.
Level 12 Water Elementals
Do nothing. You’re fine.
Level 13 Fast Drug Runners
Do nothing. You’re still fine, but just barely.
Level 14 Lizards
Do nothing.
After the round, upgrade the interest rate to 20%.
Level 15 Battle Golems
Do nothing.
Level 16 Harpy Rogues
Add one level three cannon tower on the center of the right side. This is a bit of overkill. Level one or two would probably work.
Level 17 Air, Albatrosses
Build four level three air towers. Two or three will leak. Sell all but one air tower before the end of the level.
Level 18 Fat pigs
Add a level three cannon in the lower left. One or two might leak. Don’t worry.
Level 19 Fast, Drug Runners
Add some level three cannon towers in strategic positions.
Level 20 Goblins again
Do nothing. All is well.
Level 21 Immune Trolls
Do nothing.
After the round, upgrade the interest rate to 25%.
Level 22 Boss Angry Critter
Add three level three cannons, the boss leaks twice before being killed.
Level 23 Goblins
Do nothing.
Level 24 Dark Minions
Do nothing.
Level 25 Cannons
Again, do nothing. It’s close, but you should be okay.
Level 26 Fast
Hmmm…
Level 27 Air, Albatrosses
Seven level three air towers, sell as many as possible just before end of round. Buy several lives as the creeps leak.
Level 28 Cryptic Fiends
Add two or a few level three cannons.
After the round, upgrade the interest rate to 30%.
Level 29 Sludge Monstrosity
Add two level three cannons, one leaks
Level 30 Ghouls
Add level three cannons if you’d like.
Level 31 Goblins
Add level three cannons.
Level 32 Fast Immune Drug Runners
Add level three cannons, several leaked, bought extra lives.
Level 33 Boss Angry Critter
Add several level three cannons, leaked twice.
Level 34 Dang Hard
Add several level three cannons. Some creeps might leak; if so, buy lives to cover.
Level 35
Add several level three cannons, bought 30 extra lives, many leaked once.
After this level, research fire.
Level 36 gg
Added many fire towers and upgraded several to level four. This is overkill. You do not really have to buy so many; just add some of the fire towers you see below and upgrade four or five; you’ll be good.
Level 37 HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE
Add some fire towers. If you have a few creeps that leak, just buy extra lives at 40 gold each — cheaper than fire towers and you want that interest.
Level 38 The last level
Upgraded some fire towers to level four. One leaked, bought a life.
Level 39 U B PRO
Added and upgraded fire towers to level four.
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37 responses so far ↓
1 Grant // Jan 26, 2007 at 8:22 am
Nice work, this really helps!
You beat my score by about 50 points. I think I want to try a F-I-I-I-W strategy at some point.
The idea of not having to ever buy any Air or Arrow towers is appealing.
You should also mention that you do gain interest after level 39, so when you get down to only a few baddies left it would be a good idea to start selling towers like hotcakes. You get the money plus the 30% interest. It won’t dramatically increase your score, but it would help.
2 Flash Element TD » Brittlefish // Jan 27, 2007 at 10:11 am
… Update (Jan 27, 2007): Also check out our new Flash Element TD Walkthrough to 130,000 points. …
3 Cody // Feb 24, 2007 at 10:06 pm
This really helped i just dont no how u got all those points but anyways i beat the game which matters to me
4 bloober // Feb 28, 2007 at 12:50 pm
this did not help at all but i found my own strategy and my score was 317849
5 kippetje // Mar 3, 2007 at 6:00 am
beat the score: 131141. just sell stuff at last lvl ^^
6 Justin // Mar 8, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Very nice but i had some fun and sold all the cannons and put in fire towers and just owened freakin everything lol it is pretty fun. But just sell a whole lot of them to raise your score one the last level.
7 Chris // Mar 17, 2007 at 9:20 pm
that game is so easy i beat it in 20 minutes. well thats all i have to say. great game can’t wait for the next one.
8 lynked // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:52 pm
hey man I did everything u said and I spent an hour just to die at lv 26…? WTF? next time be specific bout the drug runners on lv 26 instead of hmmm lemmie see am I a dumbass?
9 wadsee // Mar 21, 2007 at 8:31 am
VERY helpful, got me on the scoreboard
32 wadsee 144,274 lvl 39 8 lives +0h ago
10 Bill // Apr 14, 2007 at 8:10 pm
it didn’t work at all…got to about level 12.
11 ben // Apr 26, 2007 at 1:34 pm
i think its good and helps alot at the start but it starts getting stupid like not telling us where to put some things and on lvl 27 what do you do there and other things well done for making this but add more screen shots on the higher levels
12 langtu87 // May 1, 2007 at 11:37 am
159k with hackspeed
13 langtu87 // May 2, 2007 at 5:26 am
I try 1 air tower lev1 and 1 air towner lev2 instead of 1 air tower lev3 and it is good.
14 lynked // May 5, 2007 at 12:17 am
DUDE WTH? I die at level 26
15 ThGnrlLee // May 10, 2007 at 2:12 am
thanks got on the board:
9 ThGnrlLee 131,507 lvl 39 4 lives +0h ago
easy to beat hard to get high score.
16 linus // May 11, 2007 at 2:27 am
terrific walkthrough, i came on the 19 place whit 124,264 points and 9 lives left. thanks
17 kdawg // May 19, 2007 at 9:52 am
thanks yo this walkthorugh ownssss
18 HaPE // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:43 am
Yo,
this helped alot!
Awesome walkthrough, to bad you didn’t tell us what to do on level 26, but anyway the people should scroll down and look on level 27 to see where and how many towers u built.
Anyways, cheer and thanks for the help!
Seee yaaah!
19 Jack // Jun 8, 2007 at 2:56 am
This guide rules! I just bookmarked it and now I will edit it so I can get a huge score. In the early levels I was about 14 or more gold ahead.
20 LaWrEnCe // Jun 25, 2007 at 3:34 am
DUDE I GOT TO LeVeL 26 WHEN THE FAST CREEPS COME THERE LIKE 13 THAT MAKE IT THROUGH… APART FROM THAT NICE WALK THROUGH BUT FIX THAT UP DUDE
21 Stu // Jul 22, 2007 at 12:48 pm
A 295K+ Flash Element TD Guide with screenshots can be seen here:
http://www.almat-computers.co.uk/element_td/
22 Timmy!!! // Jul 28, 2007 at 10:11 pm
On lvl 18 more than just one or two leaked!
more like 14!
23 jon316 // Aug 29, 2007 at 3:53 pm
If you tweak the placements in the early levels, you lose hardly any lives like you say you do.
Also, if you build more fire towers to start with once you get to that part, you’ll lose less lives later.
When I got to lvl38, I lost like 7 lives total. I had about 16 lvl4 towers up and was 3k gold ahead of you.
24 henry // Nov 7, 2007 at 5:53 pm
lol lvl 26 is so dang hard can you finish that part of the guide instead of just writing “hmmm…”
25 bill // Nov 7, 2007 at 8:22 pm
@henry, Honestly, I haven’t played FETD in a while. If I get a chance I’ll see what I can do. In the mean time, just look at what’s there in levels 25 and 27 and guess at what the half-way mark would be. -bill
26 ed // Nov 19, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Works great, level 39 at 100,827. CHEERS!
27 ofdlfsd // Dec 21, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Admin dude says: ofdlfsd’s eight comments have been compiled into one, below. As ofdlfsd points out, he is great, he is awesome, and of course, “this walkthrough results vary,” so there you have it. Oh, yeah, and woot.
heres my walkthrough:
do this dudes walkthrought to lvl 21
instead of intrest do fire
build 4 level 4 fires
lvl22,23,24,25do nothing
lvl 26 add 2 more lvl 4 fires at lvl 28 research wqater dont build waters
do nothing untill lvl 30 add 2 more lvl 4 firesat lvl 35 get earth and build a whole army of rokets this way i got 230488
Dec 21, 4:48 PM - build water if u want
Dec 21, 4:50 PM - u sould aadd more fires too
Dec 21, 4:59 PM - anyway i found another one
but i forgot that
i got 524396 with that
Dec 21, 3:48 AM - lol i got 200004
i was 7th woot
Dec 21, 3:58 AM - wow 2nd time even better 377034
omg i scored first
wooooooooooooooooooot
muhahahahahahahahahaha
mehahahahahahahahahahaha
mohahahahahahahahaha
muhohohohohohohoh
mehohohohohohohohohohoh
mohohohohohohohohohohohohoho!!!
Dec 21, 4:04 AM - in gold i got like 20k more than this dude who made this
Dec 21, 3:57 PM - this walkthrough results vary
28 ofdlfsd // Dec 23, 2007 at 4:06 am
……. lol i did speed hack and i got
lvl 39 lives 50 4005
lol thats what u get for speed hack
29 ofdlfsd // Dec 23, 2007 at 4:14 am
seriously jon only 3k ahead?
lol i was 20k ahead once
30 Vargo // Jan 13, 2008 at 4:20 pm
By level 30 i had 6k more gold than you. No creeps leaked at all in my whole game.
I didn’t use any other towers except Air and Cannon.
You need to fix your walk through i’m afraid.
31 bill // Jan 14, 2008 at 12:24 am
@Vargo - that’s great! Good for you!
32 Kill3rkid7 // Jan 26, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Done his walkthrough up to second boss. B4 that lvl I sold all cannons and put a fire cannons side by side (not overlapping) in every available space and i won easy. His guide was only good 4 the money.
33 bill // Jan 28, 2008 at 11:09 pm
@Kill3rkid7 - good for you! Thanks for stopping by. -bill
34 Lenny // May 22, 2008 at 7:59 am
Thnx didn’t made the last lvl on my own, but now i had the cash
To bad it ends at lvl 30 
35 David // May 27, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Right click at any point and press “rewind” this keeps your towers but returns to the start so you can get money whilst your towers take on the sheep, rabid dogs, etc. all over again. Useful if you like to build lots of rockets
36 ofdlfsd // Jun 1, 2008 at 3:33 am
GRANT, IN U HAVNT NOTICED SELLING TOWERS DECREASES UR SCORE
37 Kristen // Jun 2, 2008 at 1:56 am
Level 26 Fast
Hmmm…
You can’t get more helpful then that. I let myself die on level 27 to try another walkthrough.
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