Seasons leaves, wilting and falling,
now's the time: Momma Kaine's calling!
Cold, gray, dark, wet, and gloom,
The perfect time, for dinner of doom!

Kaine's Dinner of Doom 5 runs until Tuesday, December 3rd at 12PM PST, introducing Gemthel, the Gourmet and bringing back RoboTurkey, Momma Kaine, Paul the Pilgrim, Petra the Pilgrim, Chef Casey, and 43G1S!

New Tier 5 Crusader: Gemthel, the Gourmet

Gemthel, the Gourmet brings additional support and healing to Slot 13. She uses Rock Sirloin to boost Global DPS, she shields Crusaders with Well Fed, and her Norog Spice adds increased potency to the formation, increasing the chance that Crusaders' chance-based abilities activate by 5%.

As you level Gemthel, you unlock additional Global DPS with Pheasant Under Glass, a 4x increase in DPS for every 25 levels over 200 with Refined Tastes, and projectile attacks to Crusaders in her column with Food Fight!.

Make no mistake, this Royal Dwarven Lady is here to liven up your Dinner of Doom!

New Tier 5 Objectives

• Recruit Gemthel | Gemthel, the Gourmet takes up a slot in the formation. New steak and veggie escorts also take up slots in formation, and rotate around the formation every 25 areas. While they are adjacent to Gemthel, Gemthel provides a DPS buff; Otherwise Gemthel is hungry and debuffs the Crusaders. Legendary Effects are disabled on this objective.
  Reach area 400.


• Grumpy Old Men | No DPS-tagged Crusaders can be used. Three grumpy escorts occupy slots in the formation, each with a preferred tag. Crusaders with a matching tag need to be adjacent to them in order to do DPS.
  Reach area 450.


• Sweet November | A new formation should make this more of a challenge!
  Reach area 475.


• Grindhouse | All quest areas get changed to kill 40 monsters. Monsters spawn in waves of 10, and have resistance to CLK and DPS. Invulnerable ranged enemies spawn at random.
  Reach area 500.


• Countdown to Christmas | A sneak peak of the new Christmas Crusader occupies a slot in formation. Christmas tree monsters spawn at random, which shield other monsters and can only be damaged by projectiles. The Christmas Crusader has a special projectile attack which, if it hits a monster, prevents that monster from counting for quest progress.
  Reach area 525.

Help! Where’s the Loot?

Equipment for event Crusaders can be found in Silver and Jeweled Thanksgiving Chests, which you can earn from objectives and the free play or buy in the shop. Each non-recruitment objective will drop a chest for its given tier of Crusaders, and free play will drop All Tier chests. Gear for Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4 and Tier 5 Crusaders will only appear in All Tier chests once you've unlocked the respective Crusaders. You can select the tier of chest you buy in the shop when you go to purchase chests with real money or event currency.

What About Older Event Crusaders?

Previously-available Kaine's Dinner of Doom Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and Tier 4 Crusaders are once again available to unlock as part of Kaine's Dinner of Doom 5. For more information about those Crusaders, check out our Event Blogs from previous years:

• RoboTurkey & Momma Kaine (Tier 1)


• Paul the Pilgrim & Petra the Pilgrim (Tier 2)


• Chef Casey (Tier 3)


• 43G1S (Tier 4)

Players will have until Tuesday, December 3rd at 12:00PM PST to complete Kaine's Dinner of Doom 5. Good luck!

We’re very excited to launch our 2019 Extra Life charity drive! We’ve added a new DLC pack featuring Taskmaster Exalita, the Giver! From 10am PST Wednesday, November 20th through 10am PST Wednesday, November 27th 2019, Codename Entertainment will be donating the net proceeds of the Exaltia, the Giver pack to Extra Life. Our proceeds support BC Children’s Hospital Foundation - improve your efficiency with a handy taskmaster and help sick children!

In this pack:

Taskmaster Exaltia, the Giver!

• 5 Jeweled chests!
• 1 Legendary Catalyst!
• 3 Day 50% More Idols Buff (starts immediately on purchase)!

Don’t forget to tune into our 24 hour stream from CNE Headquarters starting Friday November 22nd at 9AM PST at Twitch.tv/CNEGames. We have some stretch goals that benefit the entire Crusaders community as well:

• If we raise at least $2500 in donations , then we'll unlock a code for a week-long 400% DPS buff!
• If we raise at least $7500 in donations, then we'll unlock a code for a week-long 50% Idol buff!

Donations from the purchase of the Exaltia pack, the Crusaders Extra Life page or to Erika’s page count for these totals!

Since we are between events and eagerly awaiting Kaine's Dinner of Doom next week, we thought now would be a great time to introduce some new Tier 3 Objectives for Mme. Finklebottom's Revenge and some new Tier 3 11th Objectives!

Looking to learn more? Of course you are! Details about our new Tier 3 Objectives can be found below...

New Tier 3 11th Objectives

Idols Through Time

• Rewind
• Complete all previous Tier 3 11th objectives, and all Tier 3 Idols Through Time objectives.
• A VHS tape floats in the front of the formation.
• Viewer monsters spawn at random, with a projectile attack.
• If a ranged monster hits the VHS tape, your area quest progress goes down by 5, unless the quest is already complete.
Reach Area 1550.
REWARD: Faster Free Play Bonus — Increases the Free Play Bonus gained on reset by 100%.

Amusement Park of Doom

• Queue Up
• Complete all previous Tier 3 11th objectives, and all Tier 3 Amusement Park of Doom objectives.
• Monsters drop less Gold.
• Areas start out more difficult.
• Royal Crusaders may not be used.
Reach Area 850.
REWARD: Quest Multiplier — Adds a 20% chance for monsters to give double quest progress.

Mme. Finklebottom's Revenge

• Mountain of Madness
• Every 15 seconds, a random Crusader becomes infected with paranoia, causing their DPS to zero out.
• The paranoia also causes the upgrades of Crusaders adjacent to that Crusader to be disabled.
• Terrifying monsters spawn at random and cannot be killed, except by Firestorm and similar effects.
Reach Area 1100.
REWARD: Extra Mission Idols — Increases Idols gained from Idol missions by 400%.

New Tier 3 Objectives

Mme. Finklebottom's Revenge

• The Journey of the Ring
• Four halflings take up spaces in the formation, moving every 50 Areas.
• A Wizard joins his companions, occupying a slot in the center of the formation.
• The Wizard buffs both himself and Crusaders adjacent to him based on how many halflings the Crusaders are adjacent to.
• A Ring Monster spawns randomly, and immediately summons nine Ring Reaper monsters when you kill it.
• Ring Reapers can count towards quest progress.
Reach Area 900.

• Call in the Eagles
• Three eagles take up slots in the formation.
• Bird seed monsters spawn at random.
• When a bird seed monster is killed, each eagle either buffs or debuffs your formation.
• Your DPS to monsters is the lowest DPS among all your Crusaders (excluding Clickers.)
  Reach Area 950.

• Let's Dial In
• An astronomy arch takes up a slot in the formation, periodically spawning powerful monsters.
• An alien escort takes the leading spot in the formation, disabling adjacent Crusaders' abilities.
• Only humans and aliens can be used.
Reach Area 950.

• It's the Climb
• A country singer takes up a slot in the formation.
• Your DPS is raised and lowered as she sings.
• DPS spends more time lowered than Tier 1.
• Only winged Crusaders can be used.
Reach Area 1000.

• It's Getting Hot in Here
• A portable volcano takes up a slot in the formation.
• For every 200 monsters killed, the volcano applies a random buff.
• The volcano’s heat disables the Formation Abilities of adjacent non-magical Crusaders.
• Fire falls at random, damaging Crusaders.
• Volcano now explodes boulders randomly too, which instantly kill a Crusader.
• Only Projectile Crusaders, and Crusaders with guns, can be used.
Reach Area 1000.

• Vertical Limits
• Every monster killed causes a random Crusader to get closer to freezing.
• When a Crusader is frozen, their DPS is 0 and their gear and formation abilities are disabled.
• Crusaders are chilled even more quickly than on previous tiers.
Reach Area 1000.

• Dead Snow
• Zombie monsters spawn at random.
• After 10 zombies are slain, a tougher zombie spawns which can only be damaged by clicks.
• Zombie Winter, Roboqueen and Dragons get a bonus (100% buff for all FAs) for being in the formation.
• The stronger zombie spawns after only 5 lesser zombies.
• All non-boss area quests are changed to kill the Tough Zombie monster.
Reach Area 1050.