Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty:3/10
- Offline: 11 [200]
- Online: 1 [10]
- Approximate amount of time to 200: 5-6 Hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: Multiple games
- Missable achievements: None
- Does difficulty affect achievements: No
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed:No
Introduction
Welcome to the roadmap to 200 for Hardwood Spades. Spades is a trick taking card game, that dates back to 1930's USA. Hardwood Spades is this game digitalised, and has a few different rule and game variations. For a brief guide of how to play the game, see this achievement description. All achievements are pretty straightforward, the difficult ones you can boost easily with partners.
Step 1 - Multiplayer
I would suggest starting off by finding a boosting partner. Use the boosting thread found here or create or join a Session to find a partner. With two of you you can easily get a 25 win streak (and other streak/win based achievements) done. With a 200 point maximum and the game set to partners, your opponent (who is trying to lose) always bids to shoot the moon and fails. This grants you the win. Repeat 25 times for 5 achievements worth 80
If you can find a group of 4, you can (relatively) easily boost "To The Moon" and "To The Moon and Back", the two hardest achievements in the game for an additional 60
Step 2 - Single player and mop up
If you managed to get all the above achievements you will only need the last 5 achievements. Start off by going for Blinds and Nil Blinds, and once they are out the way try to take every trick for "Spades Prankster". Now just continue playing until you have played 100 games, and you are done with this game.
Conclusion
As with the other two "Hardwood" games, Hearts and Backgammon, this was released back in 2005, and shows with the lack of depth and imagination in the game. However it is a relatively easy 200 if you can find some boosting partners, and something different to pass the time.
[XBA would like to thank Corrupt. for this Roadmap]