How each Alliance Tower Defense! mode plays and what it pays: map layouts, completion rewards (100 to 1,000 Coins), splitting paths, the 3x Insane multiplier, and which team shapes each mode wants — checked 2026-10-15.
Farm the easiest mode your roster clears on autopilot (Easy City until it bores you), climb one rung at a time, and treat two modes as special: Insane pays the Scientist Crates your economy needs, and Crazy pays the most Coins plus the Spin Tickets that chase DJ Speaker Man. Endless is not a farm at all — it is the endgame scoreboard. The table below is the full decision grid with community-documented rewards for all modes, checked 2026-10-15. Every named mode family gets its own section, an evidence readiness table of what is verified versus community-documented, and visible child decisions for Hard and Insane preparation.
Maps, rewards, path shapes, and the tactic each mode rewards. Wave counts are unpublished by the developer.
| Mode | Map | Reward | Paths | Tactic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | City | 100 Coins | 1 lane | The farming staple. One maxed Camera Man with Auto Skip clears it solo — this is the fastest clean Coins-per-minute loop for most accounts. |
| Medium | Wild Desert | 275 Coins | 1 lane | The first step up. Was the release Medium map until the August 7 update swapped labels with Canyon Bridge. |
| Hard | Canyon Bridge | 500 Coins | 2 lanes | Two tracks split your coverage — place economy early, then a carry per lane. Community guides describe it as designed for multiple players. |
| Insane | Camera Lab | 850 Coins + 1 Scientist Crate | 1 lane | Added August 7; enemies got a 3x multiplier in the August 10 rebalance. Bring a maxable carry plus an early-DPS unit and keep Auto Skip off until the first boss timing is readable. The Scientist Crate reward is why Insane runs are worth it. |
| Crazy | — | 1,000 Coins + 1 Spin Ticket | Splitting paths | Added in the Big Update (August 28). Splitting paths break single-target targeting, so AOE (TV Woman, Party Camera Man) plus a support aura is the standard answer. The only regular Spin Ticket source. |
| Insane Endless | Camera Lab (endless) | Scaling Coins; Endless leaderboard | 1 lane | Survival extension of Insane added August 20. Waves continue until your team fails; community runs reach 200+ waves in duo play with fully maxed rosters. |
Both are one-lane maps that exist to be automated. Solo queue, one maxed carry (Camera Man at first), Auto Skip after the first max. Medium's 275 Coins is a 2.75x payout for a marginally longer run — switch when it stops failing.
Two lanes split your match cash and your range. The passing shape is economy early, then one funded unit per lane — or a strong AOE unit that covers the fork. Community guides describe it as tuned for multiplayer, but solo clears with two maxable units are routine.
The 3x enemy multiplier (since August 10) makes under-upgraded teams fall over, but the Scientist Crate payout builds your economy permanently. Bring a maxable carry plus early DPS, keep Auto Skip off until the first boss timing is readable, and change only one thing between attempts.
Splitting paths break single-target targeting — TV Woman's AOE + burn or Party Camera Man's splash solves it, and a DJ Speaker Man aura amplifies whatever survives. The 1,000-Coin clear plus Spin Ticket makes it the best income once your roster is ready.
Not a farm — a ceiling test. Waves continue until your units fail, and every unmaxed slot caps your depth (community guides: an unmaxed S-tier fails faster than a maxed B-tier). Duo runs have passed 200 waves; the leaderboard records the best.
Match cash is personal in every mode. In party queue, if skip votes outrun your first max, your funded units starve — the Coins earned up to leaving are kept, so leaving a runaway lobby is not a punishment.
Credited loadouts from creator videos and the fan strategy guide.
1× Camera Man (maxed) + Auto Skip
The documented Coins loop: 1-player Easy City, place one Camera Man on the funnel, max it, then skip everything.
Credit: Fan strategy guide
Plunger Camera Man + Large TV Man + Titan Speaker Man
A cheap three-unit clear described as requiring no event or Robux units.
Credit: PeaceBringer (YouTube)
10M TV Woman as the core; add Titan Cinema Man to clear faster
Shows Cinema is optional — the 10M unit does the heavy lifting.
Credit: Cero (YouTube, "Easiest Way to Beat Crazy Mode")
Upgraded Titan Camera Man + Titan Speaker Man 2.0 (DPS), DJ Speaker Man (support), TV Woman (slow + AOE), Dark Speaker Man (early waves)
Role-divided five-slot comp built around the Crazy map's splitting paths.
Credit: Exotic (YouTube)
Six: Easy (City), Medium (Wild Desert), Hard (Canyon Bridge), Insane (Camera Lab), Crazy, and Insane Endless. Crazy and Insane Endless were added in the August 2026 updates. Wave counts have never been published by the developer.
Easy (City), solo. It pays 100 Coins per clear and a single maxed Camera Man handles it, which makes it the account's default farm until Medium feels trivial.
They test different things. Insane (Camera Lab) is a single path with a 3x enemy multiplier from the August 10 rebalance — a raw stat check. Crazy pays more (1,000 Coins + Spin Ticket) and its splitting paths break single-target coverage, so it punishes AOE-less teams. Most rosters clear Insane first.
Insane. Every Camera Lab clear pays 850 Coins plus 1 Scientist Crate, which contains the Scientist Camera Man economy unit at 95%.
If the next rung defeats you twice, drop back one mode and bank the Coin difference — the ladder is pay-to-climb, and the reward table tells you exactly how much.
Treating Endless as a farm (it is a leaderboard), chasing Crazy's Coins without the roster for it, and ignoring that Hard and Insane have their own preparation pages.
The full pre-flight checklist for Camera Lab.
Maps, leaderboards, and trading systems.
Roles and placement rules behind every loadout.
Coins-per-hour planning per mode.
What the community runs and why.
Rewards change with updates — check before farming.
Where each mode reward comes from, with dates.
Compare a team for the mode you run.
Part of the mode ladder — browse progression and farming help next.
