here is what he wrote at the forum:
"New world champion, for a couple hours I hope. I made at least 5 or 6 mistakes costing a few thousand points, so go for it, my score can definitely be beat.
I used the same strategy that has been posted several times on here before that lemonhead just used for his high score. Always upgrade interest, and use primarily cannon. I also used overlap, and don't believe you can score this high on the current game without it.
A couple of observations:
As has been stated before, the best place for cannons is the upper right corner. This allows the maximum path length in between passes, which is especially important for fast levels. I believe the single best spot for a cannon is half a cannon to the right of the spot exactly on the outside corner of the upper right part of the middle of the path. That would be half a cannon to the right of the first cannon placed in the 171k video.
That's your first cannon. Second canner overlaps half on it's left side. The rest are built below them, from right to left (for some reason it is easier to overlap on the left side and the bottom than the right side and the top). Cannons placed further into this corner, both above and to the left across the top of the screen are not good cannon locations. It looks good, but the extreme end of the path is not a good spot. Put one there and notice how many fewer shots get fired than your other cannons.
Continue down the right side until you get 2 cannons around the lower bend. Then place them in the left side of the middle of the board, starting from the right, so that every cannon hits two seperate parts of the path. Once you fill this all the way to the edge, go back to the first set of cannon, and continue building left, stopping about 2 cannon widths from the end of the grass. Then build across the top, starting with the furthest spot to the right that will hit the first bend in the path, and making sure that all the cannons also hit the center part of the path. Continue all the way to the left edge, but don't go down and fill in around the bend. Any further cannons than the ones I have listed are inefficiently placed (except for a few more at the top right that may be useful only on the very last level, but probably aren't worth the gold).
All in all, I followed the 'try it' blog directions, with the arrow cannon for bosses adjustment. I found that I needed a second cannon on level 6. Once you get to the 13 cannon step, you don't need as many as the list says. You need 15, 17, 18 cannon, rather than 17, 21 ... add 10 more for the fast/immune level, 10 more for the level after that, then add roughly 20 and 30 the next two levels, and about 30 a level after that until you have all the spots I described filled in. After that, it's time to buy new lives. There is an optimum # of cannons for each level, but I really don't have the time to figure it out. You should be letting at least 3-5 creeps through on the bonus levels. I way overbuilt this last game, and killed them all on the 10k and 15k hit points, which is a waste of gold. It takes a lot of cannon to get those last couple creeps because the cannons always target the front of the line, and just don't get enough shots in on the back.
I'm not sure about the sell all your cannon on the last level. If you notice, the gold you get back comes off your score. I don't know if it gets added back in as I have not tested that.
For the boss levels, level 11, add 2 fully upgraded arrow towers and sell before the end of the level. Level 22, add 5 arrow towers to the 8 cannon you have, and it should leak once. It is not worth it to kill it in one pass. I believe level 33 can be killed with one leak by adding 7 arrow cannon (maybe
, I think I used 6 and didn't quite kill it on the second pass. The best spots for arrow cannon are the 3 inside corners of the inside of the path (when upgraded they hit the outer path in 2 spots), and then a row of them on the lower inside of the center where they hit most of the middle plus a good portion of the bottom of the path.Good luck. Go out there and get 250k. It is definitely possible. "
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