New defensive structure: Whirlwind Tower

Introduction

Hello all. This is my concept of a new defensive structure called: the Whirlwind Tower! Basically, it uses wind/air based attacks and abilities to perform various supportive moves. Unlike the x-bow and Inferno Tower, there is only one form.

Tower Stats

Level	Standard attack damage	Health	Cost to upgrade (gold)*	Upgrade time (days)*
1	20	1 100	7 000 000	10
2	25	1 250	7 500 000	12
3	30	1 400	8 000 000	14
4	35	1 550	8 000 000	14
5	40	1 600	8 000 000	14

*Really, this isn't relevant to the tower, but I just put it there to show it isn't free.

Available at: TH11... because swag. (1 available. All upgrades available)
Range: Varies. Standard attack is 10 tiles
Damage type: Varies. Standard attack is single target
Attack speed: 3 seconds
Targets: Varies. Standard attack is Air and Ground.

Abilities

In this section, I will cover the Whirlwind Tower's abilities.

Aura: Wind Shield

The Whirlwind Tower sets up a wind shield around it. All RANGED PROJECTILES travel slower, lessening its power.

So, what classifies as a ranged projectile?

- Archer attacks
- Healer heals
- Wizard attacks
- Witch attacks
- Minion attacks

Dragons do not count as they are a stream of fire, rather than a fireball. Lightning / Balloons do not count as their projectiles go down.

Level	Speed/Damage reduction
1	5%
2	7%
3	10%
4	12%
5	15%

As an aura, I don't want this to be too strong.

Ability 1: Tornado

Clearly, if there is going to be a wind based tower, we need a tornado. It deals no damage, but SUSPENDS enemies for a set duration. Upgrading reduced cooldown and increases suspended duration.

Level	Suspend duration (Seconds)	Cooldown (seconds)	Range
1	0.50	6.00	6
2	0.75	5.75	7
3	1.00	5.50	8
4	1.25	5.25	9
5	1.5	5	10

This affects only ground.

Ability 2: Gale Force (unlocked at level 2)

This ability knocks back all units with a housing space lower than 5 a set distance over one second. The attack is a cone. This does no damage.

Level	Range/knock back distance	Angle of cone	Cooldown (seconds)
2	4	30	14
3	4	35	13
4	5	40	12
5	5	45	11

Units can travel over walls when knocked back. This affects Ground and Air. A troop will try to attack its original target after being blown back.

Ability 3: Tempest Strike (unlocked at Level 4)

Summons a cloud on top of an enemy that fires down lightning bolts that deal damage over two seconds in an 2x2 area.

Units hit by lightning are paralyzed for a short duration. A unit will only be paralyzed once by one cloud. They take extra damage if they are in the air (ie flying or suspended).

Level	Damage per second	Extra flying damage	Paralysis (seconds)	Cooldown
4	20	x1.5	0.5	13
5	25	x1.75	1	12

Status effects and new terms

I mentioned a few status effects which are unique to this tower. Here, I will explain them.

Suspended

A suspended unit:
- Cannot move;
- Is treated like a flying unit;
- Can attack if they are ranged.

Paralyzed

A paralyzed unit
- Cannot move;
- Cannot attack.


Analysis

Strengths / Defensive strategy

The Whirlwind Tower is particularly effective at separating tanky troops from their weaker but higher-damaging counterparts. For this reason, they have good synergy with single-target infernos: the Whirlwind Tower blows back infantry, while the Inferno Tower kills golems, giants etc. They are strongest in the layer outside the core, as Inferno Towers will not be distracted trying to kill barbarians/skeletons, instead focusing on golems.

Its Tempest Strike ability is very powerful against air attacks, more so against Balloons/minions, due to their low(ish) health, and the AoE effect. Once again, single-target Inferno Towers could help against dragons, the only flying troop that is unlikely to be affected greatly.

Weaknesses / Offensive Strategy

The Whirlwind Tower is weak if not supported by high single-target defenses. By freezing single-target infernos, teslas or x-bows, the Whirlwind Tower loses a lot of its strength. Furthermore, after using all of its abilities, it becomes a significantly weaker defense for a fairly long period, as it has very little offensive/defensive use. Therefore, by baiting its abilities with a melee troop to get into range, and following up with an all-out attack, the Whirlwind Tower is very vulnerable, and easily destroyed.

Pictures

I'm working on these, but for now, I got this from Mage Spire in BTD5: http://i1369.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0a76a4bd.png

Thank you!

Hopefully you have some feedback to give. If you vote in the poll, make sure to comment.

+1

Well done on your effort put into this, it's really nicely typed out and detailed.

The idea itself sounds pretty cool as well, it would be a good addition to the game along with (possibly) new TH11.

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Originally Posted by DOODYDUM

+1

Well done on your effort put into this, it's really nicely typed out and detailed.

The idea itself sounds pretty cool as well, it would be a good addition to the game along with (possibly) new TH11.

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Thank you :)

PS. I only just checked this thread, and found this comment, therefore this isn't a "bump".

EDIT: @People who voted in the poll, I know who you are, and please comment why you voted what you did.

Way too complicated. Defenses damage the attacking troops. That's it. Your defense damages the attacking troops, slows down their shots, sells them faulty weapons, bakes them arsenic-laced cupcakes, and goodness knows what else. If you want this to be implemented, you're going to have to make a detailed and well-laid-out case for why defense needs to be more complicated. Unless you do that, this is an easy no.

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Originally Posted by MrScribbler

Way too complicated. Defenses damage the attacking troops. That's it. Your defense damages the attacking troops, slows down their shots, sells them faulty weapons, bakes them arsenic-laced cupcakes, and goodness knows what else. If you want this to be implemented, you're going to have to make a detailed and well-laid-out case for why defense needs to be more complicated. Unless you do that, this is an easy no.

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I disagree with the bolded statement.

Why do we build defenses? To defend trophies and/or resources. There are no hard and fast rules stating that the only way to defend is to do damage.

Look at it from the attacker's perspective. Why do we raid? To gain resources and/or trophies. Do we do this by using an full wizard army? No. A good army usually consists of tanks (usually golems/giants/skeletons/barbarians), supports (healers and spells), and damage dealers (most other troops).

So what makes defense different? You could think of defenses as your own troops that only operate in defense: they are still an army. They should still consist of tanks (walls), damage dealers (most defenses) and supports (my proposal).

Your second point is that it is complicated.

It doesn't make defense complicated (you put it somewhere and watch it attack), unless you mean it changes base design. If this is your reasoning why it is complicated, then there should be no more defenses using that logic.

It is different because it uses abilities. However, these abilities have a long cooldown, meaning at most, you should only need to worry about each of them once or twice. After that, they are basically useless, meaning they are relatively similar to traps in that manner.

The only person that should need to worry is the attacker. After deploying troops, they only need to consider:

a) Hero abilities x 2
b) Spell deployment x 5.

Now, they need to think about two or three rotations of the Whirlwind Tower's abilities as well. Once that is done, there is not much to think about.

In no way does this make either defense or offense complicated.

Good idea at all guy...... but pls think about the things i bolted. This is tooo much Gold to Upgrade!


Tower Stats

Level	Standard attack damage	Health	Cost to upgrade (gold)*	Upgrade time (days)*
1	20	1 100	7 000 000	10
2	25	1 250	7 500 000	12
3	30	1 400	8 000 000	14
4	35	1 550	8 000 000	14
5	40	1 600	8 000 000	14

First of all I would like to say well done! Out of all the threads I've been on suggesting many ideas this has to be the best. You've put a lot of work into this and the results clearly show that.

Regarding your idea it looks good- needs some tweaking but hey nothings perfect. :) My only concern is that th 11 doesn't actually exist.... yet and the price of the towers. Its super expensive!!!:(