TOWERS!!

Building towers is fun.
However I've noticed most people build towers that are not very useful...

I had nothing to do on sunday and decided to design a more useful tower,
one that doesnt need too many materials and that is easy to defend.

After a lot of failures this is the best tower I could build:




Features:

-It uses little materials, less than a full load of stone.

-2 blocks thickness in the base for extra defense.

-door allows allies to retreat,
and since its placed 3 tiles higher than the ground, enemies have to jump if they want to hit it.

-the ladder next to the window allows the archer to move up and down fast, so he can only be hit for a fraction of a second when he is firing.

-there is a hole that allows the archer to shoot soldiers trying to destroy the wall or dig below it.
This is the most important feature! Being able to shoot soldiers right next to your wall makes the tower a lot harder to destroy.


That's it, if you have an improvement please post here with picture.

 

Good construction. Personally I'd go with a two tile high wall and no ladder so you can just jumpshot, which exposes you a lot less. You can jumpshot over 3 tile high walls but it limits your aiming radius a lot.

If you want to go the ladder route you're better off have a 1 tile high hole with a door tile in it. Very classic construction which has seen a lot of effective use in earlier builds. Though as people have become better at shooting its been replaced by jumping around.

 

Nicely done. Inevitably when I build a fortification, it's either blown to pieces by enemy catapults within minutes, or the game ends shortly after I finish it because everyone is a gold-digging maniac.

 

Cool, you can easily modify the tower for jump-shooting.
As long as you leave a hole in the ground for shooting people trying to destroy the door,
without it the tower is a lot weaker.

 

Right that's a good point. Completely forgot about that. A murder hole above and in front of a door really helps against invading knights who try to whap on your doors. You could even put a single tile of door for extra protection.

 

I'm the kind of guy that prefers towers to have background tiles and proper walls. I like to make stuff pretty.

 

If a knight or a builder gets in front of the door you have no way to harm him...

Edit: oh now i see that hole... Well done =P

 

Vania, this is not a tower, its a platform..

 

MASSIVE necro

 

Might have something to do with the zombie update.

 

The only problem I see with this tower, is that one well throwed bomb from a knight will destroy it.

 

This is from the extremely early public builds so... stop hatin on the history. This tower was the bread and butter of everyone back in the day.

 

Sorry, i didnt mean to be negative about it, I am not hating it, I'm sorry if you feel that way. I just wanted to point out that bombs can break it. Except from that it looks very nice.
Also, only 2-5 extra backwalls worth 4-10 stone will make it very resistant. :)

 

so whats a more updatedd, easily buildable tower?

 

Yeah, but those days there was no physics.

 

This tower is absolutely perfect for Archers!

 

Very good tower and quick just one thing, if someone does say go through the team door with a team mate it would be useful having just 1 trap door above the door (on the stone block) and no ladders and it only cost about 4-6 more wood. Giving the archer above more protection.
Just a thought but great tower!

 

It needs a Panic Room, 2 team doors flat in the ground with trap bridges inside of it with a tunnel out of it for quick escapes.

 

What's the point in commenting on this thread? Building this tower now would be silly due to drawbridges being better ladders and collapsing.