👾 Boss Encounters - Final Boss Tippy & Portals

Tippy is the climactic final boss of Chapter 6 (CH6), guarded by escalating shield barriers, high-damage orbital sweeps, and board-corrupting Dead Space tiles. Victory over Tippy requires locking down a single compounding engine before entering Chapter 6 turn 4. Clear adjacent Dead Space hazards early with Budge precision, align triples or quads to puncture shields, and draft scaling multipliers like Dread Knot or Slusho Max. In Sandbox mode (introduced in Patch #3), players can also swap Tippy with Garu to practice alternate boss patterns.

Invasion campaigns run across six chapters, each concluding with an elite boss encounter that tests a specific aspect of your board construction. Early chapters punish poor dice alignment, while late chapters punish slow scaling and poor hazard handling.

Tippy behaves differently from standard invasion bosses. At the start of each turn, Tippy projects Dead Space anomalies onto 1-2 random grid tiles, preventing normal unit scoring in those columns unless bridged by wild dice like The Riftmaker's Rift or Blob Girl Mini Dice swarms. In Patch #3, the developers introduced a Sandbox toggle: "replacing Tippy with Garu". Garu features an alternate encounter design based on rapid attack cadence rather than tile denial, offering players a tailored endgame training ground.

• Recognize corrupted columns immediately: tiles tagged with Dead Space nullify unit STR scored directly inside them.
• Budge around the hazard: use Budges to steer matching dice into clean adjacent columns rather than wasting them in Dead Space zones.
• Board-wide triggers bypass tile denial: The Exalted's board-wide triples, The Riftmaker's triple-Rift volleys, and Whalefall explosions still score regardless of local Dead Space.
• Cleanse when possible: specific high-rarity artifacts and completionist perks can cleanse or convert Dead Space into bonus Chrono.

Beyond the standard chapter path, deep runs offer encounters with Hidden Portals. Triggering a Hidden Portal typically requires scoring consecutive quadruples or clearing an elite node without spending Chrono. Entering a Hidden Portal transports your fleet to dimensional rifts featuring extreme risk-reward modifiers: double boss HP for guaranteed Legendary artifact offerings, or inverted combo rules that award massive Dicepower bonuses.

Different commanders handle endgame bosses with distinct operational styles: Blob Girl floods past Dead Space with unstoppable Mini Dice volume; The Riftmaker punches through phase shields with 20-unit Mass Relay volleys; and The Exalted utilizes Divine Touch loops to level artifacts and wipe bosses before the turn counter expires. Choose the strategy that matches your commander's starter perk and lean heavily into its strengths.