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Andrejmega:

Tower

2015-05-15T23:56:11Z

Andrejmega:

{{Towns}}

The '''tower town''' is a good [[alignment]] [[town type]] with [[alchemist]] and [[wizard]] [[hero class]]es. Tower populations are comprised of [[creature]]s bound into service by powerful magic, made on the spot, or allied with the town through ancient pacts. Tower armies have uniformly good morale and some of the best range attack units available.

==Structures==
[[Image:Tower-in.png|thumb|500px|Tower town seen from inside]]

{{StandardBuildings|5|[[Gem]]}}

'''Tower Specific Buildings'''

*[[Artifact Merchants]] (like in [[Conflux]] and [[Dungeon]] towns)
*[[Library]] ([[Tower]] unique building, [[Mage Guild]] provides an additional spell per level)
*[[Lookout Tower]] ([[Tower]] unique building, the contrary to the [[Cover of Darkness]] of [[Necropolis]] towns, breaks their cover too, 20 squares lookout radius)
*[[Sculptor's Wings]] ([[Gargoyle]] [[horde building]])
*[[Wall of Knowledge]] (+1 [[Knowledge]] to visiting hero)
*[[Skyship]] ([[Grail]] building, reveals all undiscovered map parts, +15 [[knowledge]] of defending hero, 5k extra gold and +50% creature growth)

'''Creature Dwellings'''

*[[Workshop]]
*[[Parapet]]
*[[Golem Factory]]
*[[Mage Tower]]
*[[Altar of Wishes]]
*[[Golden Pavilion]]
*[[Cloud Temple]]

== Heroes ==
{{Tower heroes}}
{{Herotable}}
{{Herotablerow Tower}}
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[[List of heroes|List of all heroes]]

== Creatures ==
{{Tower creatures}}
{{Creature table}}
{{Tower creature table}}
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== Additional information ==
* [[Alignment]]: Good
* [[Native Terrain]]: [[Snow]]

===Pros===
*Powerful units
*Three ranged units and two fliers
*Magic themed town
**[[Library]] allows extra spells for each level of the [[Mage Guild]]
**Both hero types begin with a [[Spell Book]]
**Magi/Arch magi decreases spell cost by 2
*Good support heroes, with many [[Scholar]]s

===Cons===
*Expensive units
*Requires lots of valuable [[resources]]
*Relatively slow town (fastest troops move at speed 11)
*Fairly poor pool of potential main heroes

===Strategies===
Since the Tower town has three ranged units, it is excellent at defending cities. The only problem is against fast and flying attackers, such as [[Dragon]]s, [[Angel]]s etc. If the defending hero has expert [[Slow]], use it. If not, use expert [[Haste]].

A good thing is to upgrade your [[Workshop]] early, then move around the map and pick up [[Gremlin]]s for free and upgrade them at your town, this way you get massive firepower very fast. Combine [[Master Gremlin]]s with the relatively fast gargoyles to throw [[Haste]] on the Master Gremlins to take out lots of monsters early.

In the middle and end game your Gremlins are usually dead, and Gargoyles are not useful anymore. It's a good tactic to replace their place with 1 Genie each. Thus you will have 1 strong pack+2x1 stack of genies that means you can cast spell 4 times each round! If the enemy kills them, good for you, because probably getting rid of a little unit number stack that casts spells compared to killing other high health point/many units stacks is a huge damage waste given high tier spell power with lots of damage and spells requiring a fixed deducted amount of mana each turn - like swatting a single [[Sprite]] instead of killing a stack of [[Scorpicore]]s, you can replace first round caster [[Genie]] slots after combat easily and the [[Gremlin]]s would be dead soon into combat anyway.

[[Giant]]s are not much use until you upgrade them to [[Titan]]s, which are the best ranged unit in the game, have no [[Melee Penalty]], and generally kick butt.

===Town Costs===
["Basic" includes Citadel, Castle & any prerequisites;
"Upgrades" also includes prerequisites]

{| class=wikitable
!Resource!!Basic!!Upgrades!!All
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|{{Gold}}||28300||37500||111300
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|{{Wood}}||50||25||135
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|{{Ore}}||65||20||135
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|{{Crystal}}||13||8||49
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|{{Gem}}||23||38||89
|-
|{{Mercury}}||7||13||48
|-
|{{Sulfur}}||7||8||43
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!colspan=2| Troop cost/week: !!colspan=2| 30800 {{Gold}} 4 {{Gem}}
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[[Category: Towns]]

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