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

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

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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		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

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
• 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