Tower

Template:Towns 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. Tower respresent Bracada.

Tower's native terrain is snow.

Structures

Tower Specific Buildings

• Artifact Merchants (like in Conflux and Dungeon towns)
• Library (unique Tower building, Mage Guild provides an additional spell per level)
• Lookout Tower (unique Tower 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, +4/week)
• 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)

Tower creature dwellings:

• Workshop
• Parapet
• Golem Factory
• Mage Tower
• Altar of Wishes
• Golden Pavilion
• Cloud Temple

Tower town seen from inside

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

Heroes

Name	Class			Specialty		Skill 1		Skill 2		Spell
Piquedram	Alchemist			Gargoyles		Basic Mysticism		Basic Scouting		Shield
Thane	Alchemist			Genies		Advanced Scholar				Magic Arrow
Josephine	Alchemist			Golems		Basic Mysticism		Basic Sorcery		Haste
Neela	Alchemist			Armorer		Basic Scholar		Basic Armorer		Shield
Torosar	Alchemist			Ballista		Basic Mysticism		Basic Tactics		Magic Arrow
Fafner	Alchemist			Nagas		Basic Scholar		Basic Resistance		Haste
Fafner	Alchemist			Nagas		Basic Scholar		Basic Interference		Haste
Rissa	Alchemist			Mercury		Basic Mysticism		Basic Offense		Magic Arrow
Iona	Alchemist			Genies		Basic Scholar		Basic Intelligence		Magic Arrow
Astral	Wizard			Hypnotize		Advanced Wisdom				Hypnotize
Halon	Wizard			Mysticism		Basic Wisdom		Basic Mysticism		Stone Skin
Serena	Wizard			Eagle Eye		Basic Wisdom		Basic Eagle Eye		Dispel
Daremyth	Wizard			Fortune		Basic Wisdom		Basic Intelligence		Fortune
Theodorus	Wizard			Magi		Basic Wisdom		Basic Ballistics		Shield
Solmyr	Wizard			Chain Lightning		Basic Wisdom		Basic Sorcery		Chain Lightning
Aine	Wizard			Gold		Basic Wisdom		Basic Scholar		Curse
Cyra	Wizard			Haste		Basic Wisdom		Basic Diplomacy		Haste

Creatures

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		Bloodless Unliving , Flying
Obsidian Gargoyle Obsidian Gargoyle		2+	7	7	2	3	16	9	9	201	160		Bloodless 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, Magic channeler
Arch Mage Arch Mage		4+	12	9	7	9	30	7	4	680	450		Ranged (24 shots), No melee penalty, No obstacle penalty, Magic channeler
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	Mind spells immunity
Titan Titan		7+	24	24	40	60	300	11	1	7500	5000	2	Ranged (24 shots), No melee penalty, Mind spells immunity, Hates Black Dragons

Strategy

A good strategy at the beginning of the map is to upgrade Workshop in order to upgrade Gremlins into shooting Master Gremlins. With relatively fast Stone Gargoyles it is possible to form protective wall of gargoyles around the stack of Master Gremlins, and take down enemies – especially wandering creatures – with ranged attacks one by one. The downside is, that Master Gremlins only have 8 shots, which can sometimes run out. Additionally, casting Haste on Master Gremlins makes them typically act first.

Another useful strategy is to form few strong troops and fill the rest of the slots with one (or few) Master Genie each. During the combat Master Genies' can use their special ability to cast spells on the strong troops to furthermore boost their abilities. This way it is possible to cast 4–5 spells per turn.

Giants are not much use until they are upgraded to Titans. In fact, they only have 150 health which makes them quite vulnerable. However, upgrading them is very expensive.

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, with troops costing 30,800 gold and 4 gems to buyout every week
• Requires lots of valuable resources
• Relatively slow town (fastest troops move at speed 11)
• Fairly poor pool of potential main heroes
• Some of the worst non-upgraded units
• The most expensive town to buildup