Toy Soldiers: Cold War

Solo guide for Broveit Russia.

First off you need two controllers to do this by yourself. Once you have those, go to "Arms Race" and play it on Elite.

1. Hit "B" on your first controller, as it automatically puts you into the tank. If you don't get out, the planes will damage it.

2. Don't build anything until the planes go away the first time! As soon as you're able, hit "X" to start every wave early. Don't worry, you'll have more than enough time before they get to your turret.

3. Once the planes go away, using your second controller, build a "Make-shift turret" in the small land plot, nearest to your Toy Box. Upgrade it (still with the second controller) once.

4. Destroy first three waves, upgrade to level three.
Zoom second controller out so you can see how much time you have, before they make it to you.

5. Keep an eye on your turrets health. Repair it every time you get a chance (you'll be drowning in money; that's not an issue) and whenever it has roughly 25% life left.

That's it. One turret. It shits on everything - tanks and infantry alike.

I can contest this guide worked better than any mention guide on here.

Credit goes to H lAl T R E D from x360a!

This achievement can be done on any level, it doesn't have to be on the DLC maps.

Jungle Heat is the 2nd level of the main campaign and the beauty of it is you don't have to deal with any air units (apart from Rambo shooting a few at the start)

For the set-up click the right stick to go into birds-eye view, and look so your toy box is at the bottom of the screen.
There are 4 build locations to the left of the road, there are 3 that are almost in a line, place an anti-tank on the middle one and level it up to level 3 as soon as possible (do it between waves so you're not left vulnerable). The other turret is a machine gun that should be placed on the build location closest to the toy box on the right hand side of the road (this should be kept at level 1)

Note:Launch waves as soon as you can

Keep an eye out for the red arrows that appear, these show where the enemies are spawning

The anti-tank turret is the main turret, this should kill 90% of the enemies, the other turret is just to mop up any small amounts of infantry that get through

When the anti-tank is at level 3 be sure to guide the missile by holding the right trigger after firing, the right stick directs the missile, to slow it down pull back the left stick, the aforementioned red arrows are important for this as it gives the chance to kill many infantry while they are bunched up at the spawn, it also gives you the chance to kill tanks early

All waves are pretty easy apart from the last one, try and keep a barrage special ability for this, if the machine gun guy gets 1 even better. Use a nuke/bombing run/commando pretty early in the wave (5-7 seconds), on the bazooka infantry that spawn in the middle area, if the anti-tank guy has to leave his turret to do this be quick to get back onto it to finish off the tanks

Shoot the scenery when you have the time, this can be quite helpful in saving some extra cash

Feel free to comment any suggestions

I was doing this solo and had troubles with both of these solutions. They're great solutions but after a few attempts with each I just couldn't get it to work. So I combined them and did it on the first try while pressing X immediately to advance the waves every time.

So first, play on Jungle Heat, the 2nd level in the main campaign. This way you only have to worry about tanks damaging your turrets. So when you start the level player 1 is Rambo, so just blow up as much as possible to get as much money as you can. Then immediately build a Make-Shift turret next to the toy box (on the right of it) and upgrade it. Upgrade it to level 3 as soon as you can. If you are quick enough you can do it before the guys from the first wave reach you, but if not just do it after you kill the first wave, you'll have plenty of time before the second wave.

Once you are at level 3 on the Make-Shift, you want to point the target at the road directly in front of the toy box. This way, you can get everyone from every side and get any soldiers sneaking into the box.

Once player 1 has enough money to buy an Anti-Tank turret ($700) then get out of the Make-Shift and put Player 2 into it. I then put rubber bands on both of the triggers of the 2nd controller and just left Player 2 in the Make-Shift, pointing at the road in front of the toy box. Then I had Player 1 build an Anti-Tank turret at the second closest position to the toy box (on the left) and I just used this turret to help take out tanks so it wouldn't damage the Make-Shift too much.

The only tricky part of this solution is to repair the Make-Shift. At some point the tanks will damage it and it'll need repairs. You'll have to take the rubber bands off, leave the turret, repair, get back in the turret, and then put the rubber bands on. I tried to repair with the rubber bands still on and it didn't work.

I only did one repair and never upgraded the Anti-Tank and still got 85% on saving money. So you could probably afford a 2nd repair, an upgrade to the Anti-Tank, or possibly both. I didn't try this though.

If you have any questions, let me know.

* Read entirely first so you know what to expect from the run.

This is the easiest and cleanest way to achieve this (at least in relation to the other guides here).

Done by yourself with 2 controllers. Although you will only use 1 controller to play. And 1 unit throughout 19 waves.

Map: Jungle Heat (Elite)

1. As soon as the game starts destroy the helicopters with Rambo and keep destroying stuff in the enemy bases and overall map. When it's time expires you should have between $2000 and $3000.

2. Press the right stick on P2 controller to view the map from a top perspective and zoom in until you can easily see the soldiers running and at the same time know from what direction they're coming. This is the only thing you need to do with the second controller, so put it away.

3. Build a makeshift turret in the closest spot to the right of the toy box and immediately upgrade it to level 2. Hop in and burn the soldiers.

4. When tanks are about to appear for the first time upgrade the makeshift to level 3, not before. Dealing with soldiers coming from both paths is easy if you aim towards the intersection where the left path joins the center path. This is super close to the toy box but aiming right there kills every soldier coming from the left direction once they arrive to the central path.

5. Always aim for the bigger tanks when big + small tanks are coming closer (this happens on the later waves). Focusing on the bigger tanks guarantees that you won't need to repair your unit more than twice in the run and the repairs are done usually the first time between waves 16 and 18, depending on when you see that you have time and you're low on turret health. The last repair is done once the final wave starts. P2 map view let's you see exactly in what point of the road you're dealing the most damage. This is mostly useful when dealing with the big tanks.

IF your unit is destroyed by the last 2 or 3 tanks immediately build an anti tank and shoot them.

Barrages: using them throughout the run is OK but make sure you save one for the last wave. It might come in handy especially if your unit is destroyed by the last tank.

Results: your savings in the end of the session should be more than 5 minutes of saved time if you constantly pressed X throughout the run (think of it as a shooting button so you're constantly tapping it and don't waste time activating new waves). And 80-85% of money saved.

With the 3 gold medals you get a platinum and the achievement pops for both profiles.