Kaiju Wars Resources Guide: Money, Units, Projects & More

Despite its humble appearance and micro-tactics structure, missions in Kaiju Wars come stacked with a smorgasbord of resources for the player to manage and leverage to prevail against the monstrous onslaught. You will need to be ready to juggle, track, and manage different systems all at the same time, which can get overwhelming, so here’s a rundown of what you can expect to engage with.

Here’s everything you need to know about resources in Kaiju Wars.

Kaiju Wars Resources

Science

At its core, Kaiju Wars is a time management strategy game, with science acting as your main timer for victory. In every mission, players will need to earn a set amount of breakthrough stars before the kaiju reach Dr. Wagner’s lab and trample over your efforts to discover a final solution to repulse the beasts.

There are two main ways of earning breakthrough stars: defeating a kaiju and generating science points. If your units and abilities are able to drive a kaiju’s health down to zero, they will run away and earn you a breakthrough star. An effective defense effort that scares the kaiju off can definitely be profitable in speeding up a victory.

To earn a breakthrough star passively, all labs, several basic structures, along with some projects and units generate science points before the start of the next turn. Once the science bar reaches 10 points, you’ll earn a breakthrough star, so having a high science income will ensure that you earn victory stars quickly.

 

Money

While money may not have any direct effect on earning breakthrough stars, it’s the main resource you’ll use to establish bases, deploy units, and repair damaged troops. Army bases and airfields cost 12 money to build, deploying units costs 3, while repairing them costs 1.

Players will earn money passively in the same phase as science. Most basic buildings, such as suburbs, office buildings, and harbours generate money, while some projects can give lump sums of money if you draw the right project card. Protecting your income generators will help keep your military up and running.

 

Security

The only passive resource in a mission, security represents the player’s firewalls, digital defence measures, and hardware that prevent hacking and other types of cyber warfare. The kaiju have a secret force behind them that aids in their rampages and will enact dark projects that can buff and heal the monsters or attack your security rating.

Once the security rating degrades to 0 the kaiju will get a signal as to Dr. Wagner’s whereabouts, the key character leading your science division, and head straight for their lab. Security can only be modified through activating projects or by founding army bases and airfields, as well as protecting basic buildings like lookouts, so make sure to keep your security rating as high as possible.

 

Units

The most active resource in the player’s arsenal, you’ll be using both basic and special units to take the fight to kaiju and contain their rampages. Basic units can be deployed at army bases and airfields, while special units require a project activation and then a timed deployment from a lab. Units can move around and cause direct damage to a kaiju, while some units have special abilities that can affect the battlefield or incur some other effect on a monster.

Every mission will have a unit roster limit, so you’ll only be able to deploy a set amount of units at any given time. However, it’s guaranteed that you’ll lose units, so players will be deploying, repairing, and redeploying actively in every mission.

 

Structures

Structures are what kaiju love to snack on and topple to actively voice their displeasure with humanity’s activities. Monsters will always move towards the nearest building, so you can accurately predict where they go and prepare your forces accordingly.

As stated in our science, money, and units sections, buildings usually perform some kind of function, such as generating science, cash, or acting as a deployment area for units. Be prepared to lose plenty of buildings as there’s little that can directly block a kaiju from grazing on your concrete jungles.

 

Projects

Early in the campaign, players will be granted special projects – a kind of deck-building system that grants players special abilities every turn. Each turn you will be granted three projects to choose from. You can only choose one project from the three, with the remainder automatically reshuffling into your project deck.

Projects can be broken down into three categories: spawn cards, effect cards, and resource cards. Spawn cards allow you to bring in units for free, activate a special unit deployment, or even construct a building.

Effect projects provide some kind of temporary or permanent effect on your troops, buildings, or even the kaiju. Finally, resource cards grant players one-time resource injections of science, money, or some other expendable resource. Projects can be a powerful asset if used and timed correctly to shore up gaps, access a new capability, or even speed up the research process.

 

Researchers

The final mission resource available to players unlocks in act 2 of the campaign and provides you with special characters that grant a passive conditional bonus to structures or units. Typically, you’ll be able to bring one researcher at a time; however, there are ways to add more researchers to your active roster, which leads us to our next section.

 

Medals

Medals are the only resource you won’t have access to during missions and are instead used outside the campaign to buff ace units, special units, or even unlock new researcher slots. These medals are earned by completing the main mission objective, as well as fulfilling optional conditions or even replaying a mission on hard difficulty. The more medals you earn the more you can buff your aces, special units, and bolster your research division.

The key to succeeding in Kaiju Wars is to compose a strategy or an approach that effectively utilizes all the resources in complementary ways, which is especially true on the hard difficulty, where the game really doesn’t hold back. Now that you know what all the main components do, how will you stop the kaiju menace?

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