How to Fight Monsters?

[JE SUIS UN BEAR!]

Just getting started, and I'm reading the tutorials as they come up, as well as looking for information; however, I can't find anything about how to fight off the few monsters that are coming into camp.
Is there a way to set people to attack them? I know I can hit them with fireball, but I'd rather not as a villager and skeleton are duking it out in my main camp.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Basically there two methods: build Golem Combobulators (and have Golems defend your village) or build Towers (to shoot incoming monsters).

None of those methods however will work for long unless you build a nice perimeter wall around your village and a twisty, well defended, access path.

[Inigo [No Mouse]]

Well you can also use your magic powers to kill some of them. Flames/fire burst are the two best ways to defeat monsters with essence. Use your essence conservatively though, because it is needed for other things too.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Originally posted by Jwin_the_noob:

Well you can also use your magic powers to kill some of them. Flames/fire burst are the two best ways to defeat monsters with essence. Use your essence conservatively though, because it is needed for other things too.

Magic is useful, true, but it's not a strategic or lasting solution, it's just a "support" tactic.

[JE SUIS UN BEAR!]

Thanks for the replies!
After losing my first village to monsters, I started a new one and built defense towers first thing; it's worked really well so far, and now I know what I need to build next: all the walls.