Overheated (Expert Challenge)

Overheated is the third mission of the first episode in Prismata. Complete all the missions of the episode to unlock the expert mission challenges. This mission consists of three basic defensive survival puzzles, where you have to defend only until the Overheat Ray takes out your opponent's units, after which a new challenge starts. Below are hints and the solution for each.


 *  Victory window message 
 * Phase 3 of this challenge has two different solutions (spoiler removed, see starting turn for challenge 3) 

Challenge 1
''Info: To assign attack/defence automatically press the Q key. Marked here with (q) ''

Challenge 3
Not having Blastforges available and not having to live/fight after the Ray shoots simplifies how to assess efficiency and calculate income and costs. Here you can build both Drones and Engineers. They are equally efficient as defenders as soon as the Drone gets clicked once before blocking (net cost of 2; note the difference between start of turn and click). So you need a drone alive for more than 1 turn (that's more than 2 from the point you paid for it) to more than break-even.