Archer Tower
The Archer Tower
- Definition
- The Archer towers are similar to cannons; but, they can attack air units and ground units, making them extremely resourceful. They are the structures that you will most want to upgrade as they are they can defend against almost anything and can protect cannons against air attacks.
- If you attacking a village with archer towers they can be overwhelmed easily by ground troops much in the same way as cannons can, due to the fact that the towers can only target one thing at a time. It is best to destroy archer towers before sending in your air attacks so they meet no resistance.
- Defensive Tips
- The Archer Towers can target both Ground and Air Units at an amazing distance. Therefore, it is generally a good idea to place them on the outer perimeter of the village. Doing so allows players to capitalize on the excellent range and provides good coverage for the rest of the defenses. As Archer Towers have the ability to target both Ground and Air Units, a good strategy would be to place all of the other defenseswithin range of at least one Archer Tower, and to use them somewhere near the middle of your village for maximum coverage.
- Its typically a good idea to upgrade Archer Towers before you upgrade Cannons. Archer Towers have more range and can target air units as well as ground units.
- It is typically wise to put an Archer Tower near a Cannon or Mortar due to the fact that neither of these two structures can target air units.
- Offensive Tips
- The ability to target both Ground and Air Units makes Archer Towers formidable attackers. However, Archer Towers are only able to damage one unit at a time. This makes it very easy to overwhelm them with large groups of Archers or Barbarians.
- When deploying only a few Balloons, it is advisable to keep them away from an Archer Tower, as their slow movement speed makes them an easy target. However, Balloons deployed in large numbers will quickly destroy an Archer Tower while only losing one or two Balloons. After the Archer Towers (and Air Defenses) are taken out, the Balloons will proceed to destroy the rest of the village (although Wizard Towers can still be a problem). You can also place a group of Archers (around 15-25) and let them do the work.
- Upgrade By Level
- The Archer Towers undergo dramatic visual changes at levels 6 and 11.
- A Tower's structure initially has an open wooden lattice supporting a flat wooden platform; an exterior wooden ladder leads from the ground to the platform level. From levels 2 through 5, the lattice structure and wooden platform both receive additional reinforcement.
- On level 2, the Archer Tower gets 4 short posts on the top.
- At level 3, the Archer Tower gets gray stone paddings on the legs and the short posts connect each other.
- For level 4, the Archer Tower has the paddings turn into supports.
- At level 5, the Archer Tower gets stone walls connecting between each support.
- At level 6, the lattice supports and exterior ladder is replaced with an interior staircase and solid vertical supports. The wooden platform receives stone battlements.
- The level 7, the interior staircase is blocked off by a stone wall.
- At level 8, the Archer Tower recieves a green flag on each side and metal at the bottom of each leg.
- For level 9, the Archer Tower's flags get longer and the metal aon each leg turns into spikes.
- And level 10, the flags get larger and golden plates get placed around the whole tower.
- At level 11, the color scheme completely changes, and the battlements receive dark iron shields on each corner with stone skulls in between them.
- The number of and apparent level of the Archers atop the tower also change with level.
- When first constructed, the Archer Tower has a single Archer on its platform, with the appearance of a level 1 (or 2) Archer.
- At level 4, a second Archer appears.
- At level 5, the Archers' appearance is that of a level 3 (or 4) Archer.
- At level 7, a third Archer appears.
- At level 8, the Archers' appearance changes to that of a level 5 Archer.
- Finally at level 11, the Archers' appearance changes to that of a level 6 Archer.
- The Archer Towers undergo dramatic visual changes at levels 6 and 11.