Tower

Fully built Tower, as seen on the adventure map Fully built Tower, as seen on the adventure map. (HotA)	Towns
	Castle
	Rampart
	Tower
	Inferno
	Necropolis
	Dungeon
	Stronghold
	Fortress
	Conflux
	Cove
	Factory

The tower town is a good alignment town type with alchemist and wizard hero classes. Tower populations are comprised of creatures 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

Tower town seen from inside

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 hexes 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
Alchemists
Piquedram
Thane
Josephine
Neela
Torosar
Fafner
Rissa
Iona
Wizards
Astral
Halon
Serena
Daremyth
Theodorus
Solmyr
Aine
Cyra
Dracon
Towns

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Creatures

Tower creatures
Level 1
Gremlin
Master Gremlin
Level 2
Stone Gargoyle
Obsidian Gargoyle
Level 3
Stone Golem
Iron Golem
Level 4
Mage
Arch Mage
Level 5
Genie
Master Genie
Level 6
Naga
Naga Queen
Level 7
Giant
Titan
Towns

Name	Town	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special
Gremlin  Gremlin		1	3	3	1	2	4	4	16	44	30
Master Gremlin  Master Gremlin		1+	4	4	1	2	4	5	16	66	40		Ranged (8 shots)
Stone Gargoyle  Stone Gargoyle		2	6	6	2	3	16	6	9	165	130		Unliving, Flying
Obsidian Gargoyle  Obsidian Gargoyle		2+	7	7	2	3	16	9	9	201	160		Unliving, Flying
Stone Golem  Stone Golem		3	7	10	4	5	30	3	6	250	150		Unliving, Spell Damage Resistance +50%
Iron Golem  Iron Golem		3+	9	10	4	5	35	5	6	412	200		Unliving, Spell Damage Resistance +75%
Mage  Mage		4	11	8	7	9	25	5	4	570	350		Ranged (24 shots), No melee penalty, No obstacle penalty, Spells cost -2 sp
Arch Mage  Arch Mage		4+	12	9	7	9	30	7	4	680	450		Ranged (24 shots), No melee penalty, No obstacle penalty, Spells cost -2 sp
Genie  Genie		5	12	12	13	16	40	7	3	884	550		Flying, Hates Efreet and Efreet Sultans
Master Genie  Master Genie		5+	12	12	13	16	40	11	3	942	600		Flying, Spellcaster, Hates Efreet and Efreet Sultans
Naga  Naga		6	16	13	20	20	110	5	2	2016	1100		No enemy retaliation
Naga Queen  Naga Queen		6+	16	13	30	30	110	7	2	2840	1600		No enemy retaliation
Giant  Giant		7	19	16	40	60	150	7	1	3718	2000	1	Immunity to Mind spells
Titan  Titan		7+	24	24	40	60	300	11	1	7500	5000	2	Ranged (24 shots), No melee penalty, Immunity to Mind spells, Hates Black Dragons

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 Scholars

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 Dragons, Angels 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 Gremlins for free and upgrade them at your town, this way you get massive firepower very fast. Combine Master Gremlins 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 Scorpicores, you can replace first round caster Genie slots after combat easily and the Gremlins would be dead soon into combat anyway.

Giants are not much use until you upgrade them to Titans, 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]

Resource	Basic	Upgrades	All
	28300	37500	111300
	50	25	135
	65	20	135
	13	8	49
	23	38	89
	7	13	48
	7	8	43
Troop cost/week:		30800 4