[265] Zan's Compilation Tower

I have designed a new tower that incorporates several of my favorite concepts I've seen here at the forum, on the pubs and discovered by myself. It has two possible versions, that only differ on the way they deal with the threat enemy archers climbing the trees and jumping over the tower:


The common section of the tower costs:
Stone:312
Wood: 300

This tower can make use of two landscape aspects:
- Trees next to the entrance to provide extra difficulty for the enemy to build a ladder to climb over
- bedrock underneath the tower base to make it a real pain in the neck to dig under it

It's fairly difficult to find a spot with both these landscape advantages at the sime time. You can choose one of them that suits your tactics best or that you find incidentally on the map. In this example, I found a spot with both advantages; it's merely illustrative, though. You're unlikely to be that lucky in a real game situation.

The trapbridge that links the trees to the tower wall shall be as long as needed to fill the gap between the tower and the trees. It has the purpose of preventing enemy builders from building a ladder between the trees and the tower.

Finally, the Avacado spike on the outer door is a sweet candy for enemy knights that decide they want to break in. :) When the enemy is near the trapbridge, the spikes reorient horizontally and stick to the door. Notice the rock roof over the spikes: this should prevent ally units from falling/jumping on the spikes.

Okay, on to the building process.

Here's the virgin landscape.




Make sure you start building the tower with at least 90 stone and 40 wood. It's the bare minimmum to build the wall that will stop enemies and to build the teamside bridges to climb the wall.
Start building a wall 8 tiles high.




Then build the castle wall block that makes the floor for the outer door; add the castle blackwall that will accomodate the trapbridge and the spikes.




Add the trapbridge + spikes themselves; build the doors.




It's time to build the door roof now.



Start laying the second wall layer.




Nice. Now, let's build that bigger trap. Lay the two stone rocks that will be the outer end of the bridge. (In this case, you could ommit those tiles; but on 100% flat terrain they would be needed. For illustrative purposes, I built them.)



Set up the bridge and the spikes.





Continued...

 

Now lay down the backwall reinforcement behind the tower. As you lay down the backwall, build the bridges you need to get access back up the tower. Don't build the bridges first! If you do so you can't build the backwall on the bridge tile.






Alright. The tower is built. The only thing you have to tweak now is the weakness it presents: enemy archers can climb those trees and jump over the tower. The solution you choose now will be the responsible for the tower version you end up with.
A) You can build a wall that prevents the archers from reaching the tower top.




B) You can cut down the trees (not completely! Leave part of the tree to make it impossible to build ladder on the tree's place), and lay objects to prevent the trees from growing past a certain height.




Touché! Tower built.

What do you think, guys?

 

arrowclimbing-proof: no
bombjump-proof: no
archer nest: no
catapult nest: no
bomb-proof overhang: no

stacked doors: yes
extremly unconfortable entry for allies: yes

try again

 

What do you mean? What features are you looking for?

 

I think he means that you are lacking features that increase the defense and give you the ability to repel attackers.(archers nest,catapult nest,tall enough to stop bomb jumpers.)
And with the second he means that because this is on bedrock,it cant be built freely everywhere and that you should probably work on something that IS usable everywhere.

 

Something like this?

The bottom archer nest has two bridge tiles to allow the archer to back off and close the door without falling to a lower level.
The team ladder on the outer side has backwall behind it: this makes it uncollapsable.

Pretty much every angle is covered by archer shot.

There's an additional Avacado spike set inside the tower (my Zanman777 tag is over the spikes, on the bigger screenshot).

Now you're gonna say it's too costly... You can't have everything... Personally I prefer the first project, it's straightforward without unnecessary bells and whistles. I don't build to show off, I build to help the team...

 

The yellow range is for full power shot only. If you shoot with less than full power, you can lob an arrow in new angles.

The retreat problem is easy to solve: add a third bridge tile to the second lowest "bridge platform".

 

Whatever.

 

First time looking at this stuff, and I gotta say, this does not look very sturdy. If the enemy gets close enough to the bottom, and if they have enough bombs, those towers are poo.