Favorite mix of defense towers?

[BustedHipGaming]

I go with Ballista, Spray, Shock, and Elemental Bolt.

Shock gives AOE damage vs. groups. Spray gives crush damage on the cheap. Elemental Bolt does single target damage, and Ballista gives the range to lure in single targets wandering around during the day to reduce the size of the night time waves.

What works for you?

[Inigo [No Mouse]]

Ballistas are impressively OP since they agro all the monsters, then your smaller buildings can finish them off. I have about 6 ballistas, 15 elemental bolt towers, 4 bow towers, 3 spray towers, 2 sling towers, 2 attract towers. Here's a picture: http://imgur.com/a/O4B1e


Elemental bolt towers are a MUST for me, and should be for anyone else if they want to make it past a full season. Spray towers are honestly crap but I love watching their animation, they just look so cool!

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by Sgt. MacArthur 1st RB:

Ballistas are impressively OP since they agro all the monsters, then your smaller buildings can finish them off. I have about 6 ballistas, 15 elemental bolt towers, 4 bow towers, 3 spray towers, 2 sling towers, 2 attract towers. Here's a picture: http://imgur.com/a/O4B1e


Elemental bolt towers are a MUST for me, and should be for anyone else if they want to make it past a full season. Spray towers are honestly crap but I love watching their animation, they just look so cool!

Yeah, the patter-patter of them firing is great. I don't think nthey are crap though. Crush damage is useful to have. What are the attract towers about?

[Inigo [No Mouse]]

Originally posted by drewbicus:

Originally posted by Sgt. MacArthur 1st RB:

Ballistas are impressively OP since they agro all the monsters, then your smaller buildings can finish them off. I have about 6 ballistas, 15 elemental bolt towers, 4 bow towers, 3 spray towers, 2 sling towers, 2 attract towers. Here's a picture: http://imgur.com/a/O4B1e


Elemental bolt towers are a MUST for me, and should be for anyone else if they want to make it past a full season. Spray towers are honestly crap but I love watching their animation, they just look so cool!

Yeah, the patter-patter of them firing is great. I don't think nthey are crap though. Crush damage is useful to have. What are the attract towers about?

The attract towers don't really harm the monsters... But once the monsters die the attract towers will suck in their drops so villagers can harvest them within the safety of the walls. Also, I have placed them near farms and it helps take off the slack of farmers from moving the food off the farm to allow more crops to grow.

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by Sgt. MacArthur 1st RB:

Originally posted by drewbicus:

Yeah, the patter-patter of them firing is great. I don't think nthey are crap though. Crush damage is useful to have. What are the attract towers about?

The attract towers don't really harm the monsters... But once the monsters die the attract towers will suck in their drops so villagers can harvest them within the safety of the walls. Also, I have placed them near farms and it helps take off the slack of farmers from moving the food off the farm to allow more crops to grow.

Wait, attact towers will HARVEST YOUR FARMS? WUT???

[Inigo [No Mouse]]

Originally posted by drewbicus:

Originally posted by Sgt. MacArthur 1st RB:

The attract towers don't really harm the monsters... But once the monsters die the attract towers will suck in their drops so villagers can harvest them within the safety of the walls. Also, I have placed them near farms and it helps take off the slack of farmers from moving the food off the farm to allow more crops to grow.

Wait, attact towers will HARVEST YOUR FARMS? WUT???

They won't harvest per se, but once the farmers rip up the finished crops out of the ground, the attract tower will move the food towards itself. This way it'll bunch all the food up around the attract tower into a designated area for the farmers to pick up, allowing them to faster collect the food instead of scavenging throughout all the farms.. If you look at my screenshot on the top right you'll be able to see all the food around the attract tower.

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by Sgt. MacArthur 1st RB:

Originally posted by drewbicus:

Wait, attact towers will HARVEST YOUR FARMS? WUT???

They won't harvest per se, but once the farmers rip up the finished crops out of the ground, the attract tower will move the food towards itself. This way it'll bunch all the food up around the attract tower into a designated area for the farmers to pick up, allowing them to faster collect the food instead of scavenging throughout all the farms.. If you look at my screenshot on the top right you'll be able to see all the food around the attract tower.

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[Jack]

Best defense is to cheese a choke point, then I like to only have to make bow towers, a couple of elemental towers & stone golems for fun

Around half way through year 2 & I have maybe 15-30 tiles of pathing with 2 elemental towers & 4 bow or 2 bow & 2 ballista all split between fire and ice, then like 20 odd combombulators to help get rid of the excess stone

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by Jack:

Best defense is to cheese a choke point, then I like to only have to make bow towers, a couple of elemental towers & stone golems for fun

Around half way through year 2 & I have maybe 15-30 tiles of pathing with 2 elemental towers & 4 bow or 2 bow & 2 ballista all split between fire and ice, then like 20 odd combombulators to help get rid of the excess stone

What do you mean, "split between fire and ice?" Sounds like something i have not seen yet.

[Jack]

Originally posted by drewbicus:

Originally posted by Jack:

Best defense is to cheese a choke point, then I like to only have to make bow towers, a couple of elemental towers & stone golems for fun

Around half way through year 2 & I have maybe 15-30 tiles of pathing with 2 elemental towers & 4 bow or 2 bow & 2 ballista all split between fire and ice, then like 20 odd combombulators to help get rid of the excess stone

What do you mean, "split between fire and ice?" Sounds like something i have not seen yet.

afaik you can upgrade bow & ballista towers to elemental bow/ballista towers.... I'm PRETTY sure you can now

reasoning being that afaik no mobs have resistances to ice and no mobs take more damage from poison

[ZirzoR]

Towers in this game are somewhat redudant, there is nothing in the game currently that is resistant to magic and ice, so all you have to do is make elemental ice bolt towers. (Magic/Ice damage)

You dont need anything else for defense, just stack those and use alot of energy collectors, along with maybe attract towers to suck up all the gear that the monsters drop.

Sadly this is the truth, hopefully new monsters and stuff have more diverse resistances.

[Aset]

I like the shock towers. On nightmare 4 shock towers covers everything for me. At the moment I think they're a bit overpowered.

I make sure to have a large maze entrance, build from the outside in. 1 shock tower around a bend, fully upgraded. The second a bit farther in, also fully upgraded, and the last two don't usually need upgrading. Usually also use some of the tumbler supported tower early for damage and CC, but it's just for redundancy later.

[Gundies]

Static feels the most powerful to me, it's magic and aoe. Every 2nd upgrade will also extend its range. If well placed a few of them will defend me better than anything else I've tried

I can make use of the rest of the towers and none stand out as bad with the exception of the spray tower. Not that the spray tower itself is bad, but the elemental upgrade for it will drain your mana reserves too fast compared to anything else and was a mistake the few times I tried it.