Fable Heroes

This achievement isn't really as hard as the following solution will make it seem, but it can be picky and a bit of a time waster so I thought it better to note down as much about it as possible than not. Don't worry; it's actually quite easy if you know what you're doing. This solution is about letting you know just that!

You are going to need one fully-maxed out ranged character; I used Garth. Next, you're going to need three preferrably ranged characters that aren't necessarily level 1, but as low as you can keep them. No damage buffs or anything.

With the above setup of a strong Garth and crappy other ranged characters, you can pretty much kill everything before the other characters get a shot off which yields both more kills and coins. Your focus should be on killing the mobs, then mopping up the gold before it disappears. Try to get kills before the AI does as doing damage and getting kills give you more gold than simply picking up coins does. The only time I'd prioritze money over killing is when the enemies dropped the huge coins.

When you max out a character, you get access to the Inner Board on the Abilities Board. These are the real key to getting gold medals. Which of the Inner Board perks are the best really depends on the level, but as long as you land on either the one the adds +1 to your multiplier or Coin Magnet, you can give pretty much any level a shot. Some levels are even doable without any perks, while others can be done with just damage-buffing ones. If you find that the perk you went with doesn't work out for the level you picked, you can quit out before finishing the level and keep the perk for another level. See below for more tips on that.

As for whether to use the boss or the minigame at the end of the level, it all boils down to how much money you have you when get to the intersection. The normal minigames give 5000 for a win, and the dark ones give 10000. So, obviously, if you have 2000 left to go for the gold, pick the minigame. Your multiplier doesn't matter there so as long as you win, which is very easy against the AI players, you're guaranteed the gold from that point. The boss route depends on the level; I never had much luck getting gold from the one in Hobbe Caves but the one in Aurora gives tons of gold both during the boss fight and on the path to it.

Great tip from Weezleram: every boss has a point where it will continuously spawn enemies as long as you don't kill him. If you have 4 players then you can keep the boss alive forever and just have him keep spawning enemies to kill and gain coins from. If you have three extra controllers you can have them jump in when you get to the boss (so you won't have to keep taking time to move them forward and losing your multiplier) by turning the controller on, pressing start, and logging in as a guest. Then you can just kill the spawned enemies and there will be no AI to finish off the boss.

Last note: why not a melee character? It's doable too, but using a ranged one is just much easier.

General tips
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* If you have a good setup for a level, like having both the +1 multiplier and a couple of other good ones from Inner Board, but you don't quite reach the gold for whatever reason (main one being the AI being a dick and hogging all the gold), you can just pause and restart and it does not reset your Inner Board perks.
* Also, this still works if you quit the level. If you had perks that are good but weren't enough for that specific level, you don't have to finish it and go back to the board game in the hopes of getting good perks again. Just quit to the level select and you'll still have the perks in whatever level you choose to play next. Perks do not reset until you actually complete a level.
* You can play on Normal or Challenging difficulty, but not Family. In my experience, Challenging did give you a few extra coins but it's not enough to warrant the higher chance of getting hit. Stick with Normal.

Gold medal requirements!
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I've included my personal rating of how hard it was to get the gold on each level, on a 5 star scale where 5 is hard and 1 is a joke. A 5 star rating doesn't mean that it's incredibly hard though; just that it's harder than the other levels. Basically, on some levels, you can rush and still get several thousand above gold while on others, you have to pick up every single coin dropped and still barely make it past the gold.

Light Albion:
Millfields: 30,000 [**---]
Gravestone: 25,000 [*----]
Mistpeak: 40,000 [***--]
The Cloud: 65,000 [*****] (Use the right-most teleporter every time.)
Hobbe Caves: 45,000 [****-]
Bowerstone: 50,000 [*----]
Aurora: 60,000 [****-] (The boss route yields more than you might think.)
The Credits: 55,000 [*----] (Destroy the developer names.)

Dark Albion:
Millfields: 60,000 [***--]
Gravestone: 40,000 [*----]
Mistpeak: 70,000 [**---]
The Cloud: 90,000 [*****] (Use the right-most teleporter every time.)
Hobbe Caves: 65,000 [***--]
Bowerstone: 35,000 [*----]
Aurora: 90,000 [****-] (The boss route yields more than you might think.)
The Credits: 70,000 [*----] (Destroy the developer names.)

NOTE: Dark Albion medals!
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The gold medals in Dark Albion are very hard to distinguish from silvers, due to the dark hue of the whole map. There is a slight difference, but you might even have to change the color/contrast settings on your TV to see it! The silver is a very clear, chrome-ish silver while the gold medal looks like a slightly dirty silver. The difference is miniscule, but it's there. I suggest that you keep notes of what Dark Albion levels you've gotten golds on, to avoid any potential future headaches.

CREDIT goes to xhunterr, IC3 L3G3ND, erico360, tripleb2k and many others here at TA and over at x360a. Finding out everything about this was a collaborative effort.

This solution is for boosting the Gold Medals with a partner. It would still work if you have a group of 3 or 4 but would take longer because of the extra level replays required. Thanks and credit to my boosting partner T Svectra T.

I boosted the gold medals with a friend, and we both plugged in a second controller. I estimate it took somewhere between 8-10 hours in total for both of us to get the achievement, starting from neither of us having any Gold Medals. Expect progress through the levels to be slower than on your first run because most of the time there will only be one person fighting. We played on Normal difficulty and alternated between scoring and non-scoring roles, so we played most of the levels twice (exceptions are detailed below). Our time included some learning by trial and error, so hopefully you will get through it more quickly than we did.

Gold Medal Requirements (Light/Dark)

- Millfields 30K/60K
- Gravestone 25K/40K
- Mistpeak 40K/70K
- The Cloud 65K/90K
- Hobbe Caves 45K/65K
- Bowerstone 50K/35K
- Aurora 60K/90K
- The Credits 55K/70K

Trying to track progress by the colour of the medals below the level titles in your game will make you want to pull your eyeballs out and hurl them across the room, so I strongly recommend using pen and paper to keep track instead. Gold does not look like gold at the best of times, and in Dark Albion it looks more like silver.

General Tips

Getting the Gold Medals hinges primarily on building and maintaining your multipliers, and then on collecting as many coins as possible before they disappear. Multipliers build up by destroying/killing and are lost over time and by being hit.
- When you are scoring it's best to use a fully developed character that can buy perks from the inner board.
- As scorer, always buy Coin Magnet, Max Multiplier +1 and Multiplier Retainer perks if you get the chance. Never buy the Become The Enemy's Favourite perk if you are scoring in the next round.
- As non-scorer, always buy the Become The Enemy's Favourite perk if you can as it vastly reduces the chance of your partner losing their multiplier by getting hit.
- Your perks will be saved until the next session if you have to stop for the day, so buy them anyway if you are about to break off.
- Smash all the barrels, boxes etc. along the way and remember that a lot of the fences can also be smashed up. If in doubt try hitting it.
- Move from one area to the next as quickly as you can to minimise multiplier loss (for this reason I recommend you both use second controllers instead of the non-scorer adding two controllers).
- When you are the scorer always open the chests. The likes of Tiny Hero and Giant Hero are annoying but will not really hold you back. On the other hand the likes of Invisibility, Slow Time, Super Speed, Party Time and Son of Chesty will make things a little bit easier for you. If things are going badly and you just lost your multiplier pulling a x4 multiplier out of a chest could turn things round for you.
- Do a lot of dodging to avoid having your multiplier reduced by taking hits. If you have the Reflect Damage perk you still need to dodge as it doesn't stop your multiplier dropping from being hit.
- Area attacks should be used with caution because they cost you health, but they are often worth it if you are surrounded by a tough mob that might otherwise ruin your multiplier.
- Unless you have the Coin Magnet perk you will need to go collecting cash mid-fight a lot. Hitting B to roll around to the cash piles makes it easier to avoid taking damage while doing this.
- To avoid non-scoring characters picking up money keep them on the edges of the combat zone and/or get them killed ASAP to disable their coin collecting ability. Once you kill off the non-scorers try not to pick up hearts with them.
- Getting your party spread out too much can cause weird screen angle problems, inconvenient teleports and put money or hearts out of reach of the scorer. It can also slow you down when trying to move on because characters lagging behind sometimes get stuck so you have to backtrack to free them. Try to park the dummies close as possible to the combat zone without getting in the middle of it. When you are scoring I suggest you move your dummy up before your main character so that you don't get hit and lose your multiplier if the fight is triggered before everyone is in place.
- As soon as the scorer reaches the Gold Medal target the non-scorer can join in the fighting to finish off the level as quickly as possible.
- According to other solutions the boss fights reach a point where infinite minions will spawn, thus allowing you to farm them for cash. I can't confirm this myself as we didn't have to try it, but it's worth bearing in mind if you're a long way off the target score by the time you have to choose paths. If you choose the mini game path winning will give you 5K in Light Albion or 10K in Dark Albion EXCEPT for the Chicken Kickin' game in Bowerstone where payout seems to be based on how many goals you score.

The Cloud

During the time we worked on the Gold Medals the Cloud switched between being open and closed a lot. So don't freak out if it's closed and displaying some ridiculous hacked numbers because the chances are you'll be able to get in there within a few hours. I suggest you do the Cloud levels the first time you see them open to make sure you don't have to hang around waiting on them later. We followed the advice in DROGTURIST's solution to take the right hand teleporter every time while playing the Cloud levels. Although Dark Cloud has been given a tough rating by DROGTURIST, we found it to be the easiest Gold in the game. Taking the right hand teleports you will quickly reach a giant hollow man who spawns a mob of normal sized hollow men. The mobs will continue to spawn as long as you keep the giant one alive, and they are ideal for farming points as they are easy kills. The giant one does get gradually smaller so it eventually becomes tricky to work out which one to keep alive (he is the one who gives gold when hit, but obviously try not to hit him!). I reached the Gold target in this area, then my friend farmed about 20K of points there before we moved on out of boredom. He had no trouble getting the Gold by the end of the level so we didn't need to repeat this one.

Light Albion

The Light Albion levels gave us no difficulty at all. We went through from beginning to end taking turns on each level. We were both using characters that had got onto the inner board, but the person going for the points always had little or no perks active because we kept swapping between scorer and non-scorer roles. One of us was using a ranged character and one of us was using melee and it didn't seem to make much difference to our success in these levels. If you play carefully and make sure you maintain your multipliers you should be able to do the mini games instead of the boss fights every time. We were both able to get Gold on the same run through The Credits - if you destroy all the names this level is oozing with cash.

Dark Albion

It's harder to build and maintain your multipliers in Dark Albion. Not only do you get mobs of tougher enemies than the Light Albion equivalents, but you run into quite a few undodgeable teleporting enemies and lone enemies that you have to slowly whittle down to kill them. This means perks are much more important for getting the Gold Medals here. Instead of taking turns on each level we did a continuous run through for each person so we could be sure of getting at least 5 dice rolls worth of perks for each Gold Medal attempt. We found ranged characters seemed to lose their distance advantage in Dark Albion because they often can't kill off mobs fast enough to avoid being overrun. Not only does a melee character place you much closer to the money as it drops but also you cope better in mobs because you can hit multiple enemies with your standard attacks. As with Light Albion, the Dark Credits give enough cash for two people to get the Gold on the same run. If at any point you get a truly fantastic set of perks - e.g. Invisibility + Multiplier Retainer + Max Multiplier +1 I recommend using them to get Dark Aurora out of the way as that is the toughest challenge you will face.

Achievement Not Popping?

On my run through Dark Albion my friend was hosting the game. We got to the end and the achievement didn't pop, so we tried replaying a couple of levels thinking we must have somehow screwed up on keeping track of what had been done. There was still no achievement (very worrying by now) so I backed out of my friend's game intending to check my medal status on my own board. As soon as I got into the menu on my own game the achievement popped. So, if you're not hosting and the achievement doesn't pop on time try going back to your own game before spending time replaying levels.

The guide above brilliant follow the scores on it and tips but i would just like to add an extra tip that may get it done faster then with the AI as they are quite good on this game and will take a lot of coins from you.

Okay so grab a friend and both put in 2 controllers. Each take turns or do all the levels at once for one person and then switch, only one person collect every coin while every other controller stays back. If needed do the mini-game at the end too, if you already have enough let your friend win it so they have some coins to buy from the inner board before their turn.

This is a lot easier then doing it with the AI, also a tip if you at any point get a coin magnet or a max multiplier +1, do a level rated 4 or 5 stars in guide above as you will want them done as soon as possible rather then trying over and over.

Figured I'd add my 2 cents.

First of all, when you start the game, only play and level up as Garth, you don't want to have to reset all characters levels like I had to, since I didn't have 3 unleveled ranged characters when I started for the gold on each level. You'll want to have Garth, and Reaver on your team, since you need them to unlock Ben Finn and Maze, Only use Reaver to unlock Ben Finn of course, don't do anything else with him. Then you'll have a full team of your fully leveled up Garth, and 3 unleveled ranged characters. I completed most levels with 2 unleveled ranged, and 1 unleveled melee, but I couldn't gold a few levels because the melee steals a surprising high number of coins.

As Garth you'll only want to mash to kill enemies as fast as you can, you'll notice some of the skills say that you can use a flourish killing move that gives you 3 times the gold on certain enemy types, but I could never actually tell when I was doing that with Garth, and I found that just mashing worked better. Like the main guide here says, focus on killing the enemies, over picking up the coins, unless you see the biggest coins.

In the levels, you'll want to avoid the ? treasure chests, sure they could give you super speed, or more gold, but you'll more likely get something like Giant hero, which just slows down your attacks. Or the Hobbe Disguise, which will force you into melee, and for all I could tell, ignores your powered up attack and gold gathering skills, so it's actually really bad for getting Gold on a level.

I was having a hard time getting Gold on The Cloud, and the Dark Aurora(Make sure you go to the bosses' path in this level, you'll get a lot more gold than the minigame)levels, until I reset all my characters levels(I used the Dark world minecart to relevel Garth in about an hour or so)but once I just started mashing with Garth with 3 unleveled ranged AIs, I got Gold my first try, even without the x6 perk on the Dark Aurora level.

It might seem obvious to just mash , but I have been using the attack for the longest time because of the supposed 3 times the gold, and it made me fail Gold quite a few times.

Hope this can help a little bit, more of a few notes to side with the main guide by DROGTURIST, which was very helpful.