Hey guys, in the King of Towers you always have the choice to build one (or few) upgraded towers for defense or place lots of low level towers all over the map for the same money. The question is: “which way or which defense is more effective?” and to answer this questions let’s take my arrow towers as an example.
Tower Statistics
The Arrow Towers cost 70 gold to place, has 565-754 damage, and then their upgrades cost like so (the damage figures are from my current tower upgrades of level 16):
- Marksman Tower – 100 Gold ; 942-1319 damage
- Hands of God Tower – 160 gold ; 1319-1922 damage
- Jungle Warfare Tower – 245 gold ; 1376-2262 damage
Also important is the attack speed (about +8% per upgrade) and, as well, the slight increase in range as you upgrade towers.
Calculating Tower Damage / Analysis
So let’s assume we have 5000 gold to spend (taking a big number to get accurate results) – which way is the most effective? Which way gives us the most damage?
Base Arrow Tower
5000 gold buys you 71.4 towers which do 659 average damage each and in total will do 47107 damage.
Marksman Tower
5000 gold buys you 50 towers which do 1130 average damage each and in total (with +8% speed) will do 61047 damage.
Hands of God Tower
5000 gold buys you 31.25 towers which do 1620 average damage each and in total (with +16% speed) will do 58743 damage.
Jungle Warfare Tower
5000 gold buys you 20.4 towers which do 1819 average damage each and in total (with +24% speed) will do 46032 damage.
So which way or which defense is more effective?
Clearly, doing just 1 upgrade on the base arrow tower produces the biggest damage output. 2 upgrades come very close in damage, but the top upgrade is even worse damage than the original base tower, so stay away from the top upgrade until all tower slots have been occupied and upgraded 2 times.
So I must conclude that putting towers with 1 upgrade on as many slots as possible is the most effective way to win this Tower Defense game, followed by getting all towers to 2 upgrades before even considering the most expensive top upgrade tower option.
