What is Archer Tower?
Archer Tower is your second defense building available. And it is your first accessible defense building against air troop in the game. It is very similar to Cannon in term of single target attack. While Archer Tower shoots a little bit slower than Cannon, Archer Tower has range a little bit more and can attack air troop, this is why Archer Tower is more expensive and takes longer to upgrade compared to Cannon.
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| Archer Towers have longer range than Cannons, and unlike Cannons they can attack flying enemies. |
While Cannon is cheaper and quicker to upgrade, it is a good tactics to upgrade Archer Tower first because of its overall defense capabilities.
Archer Tower Fact (at level 1)
Damage per second = 11
Hit points = 400
Range = 10 Tiles
Damage type = Single Target
Targets = Ground & Air
Favorite Target = Any
Because of Archer Tower single target nature, it is great when shooting at high hit point troop such as Giant. It is bad when is being attacked by hordes of Barbarians and Archers.
Archer Tower shoots at normal rate of 1.0 second per shot. It is a good tactics against Wall Breaker to upgrade you Archer Tower to at least level 7. Coincidentally, Archer Tower level 7 also one hit kill Archer level 5.
Archer Tower - one hit kill – Wall Breaker
Archer Tower level 4 deals 25 damage per shot, thus one hit kill Wall Breaker level 1 and 2.
Archer Tower level 5 deals 30 damage per shot, thus one hit kill Wall Breaker level 3.
Archer Tower level 6 deals 35 damage per shot, thus one hit kill Wall Breaker level 4.
Archer Tower level 7 deals 42 damage per shot, thus one hit kill Wall Breaker level 5.
Archer Tower- one hit kill - Archer
Archer Tower level 7 deals 42 damage per shot, thus one hit kill Archer level 5.
Archer Tower level 8 deals 48 damage per shot, thus one hit kill Archer level 6.
To create good coverage of the entire base, 5 Archer Tower placements should create virtual pentagon shape. 6 Archer Tower placements should create virtual hexagon shape or double triangle shape.
1) Perimeter protection
Place your Archer Tower behind 1st layer of wall. This is good position to kill incoming Wall Breaker without decoy.
2) Focus fire
Place your Archer Tower behind 2nd layer of wall or near middle of the base. This tactics use splash damage to deal with hordes of Barbarians and Archers while Archer Tower focus fire on bigger troop like Giants, Dragons or P.E.K.K.A.
3) Cover its weakness
Archer Tower shoots at single target. It is basically a good tactics to mix in Mortar and Wizard Tower to balance out defense capabilities.
Attack Tactics against Archer Tower
1) Swarm!
Just swarm Archer Tower with Barbarians or Archers. Ten Archers level 5 can take down one Archer Tower level 10 in 4 seconds!
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