"Dodge this!"The Archer Tower is a Level 1 Ranged Tower. It shoots arrows into enemies, dealing physical damage. The tower is the same in both Kingdom Rush and Kingdom Rush: Frontiers, with only a change in appearance.
Description
Archers ready to strike at your enemies from a distance.
These trainee archers fire a slow but constant stream of arrows into enemy forces. They deal low damage, but their fire rate is still relatively high, and they can attack both air and ground units.
Archers can be upgraded to Marksmen Tower at Level 2.
Range
(KR) Standard range without Upgrades
(KRF) Standard range without Upgrades
Strategy
Strengths
- Due to their low damage, non-upgraded archers are only effective against unarmored foes with low health, like Goblins, Shamans or Giant Spiders.
Weaknesses
- Level 1 archers are ineffective against pretty much everything else. In later stages, you should upgrade them as soon as you build them, usually to at least level 2 or 3. As you can gain a great amount of gold in harder stages, it is possible and recommended to upgrade one Archer Tower straight to level 4, where they play a significantly more effective supporting role.
Additional Stats
- Damage Per Second - 4.4 to 8.6 (average 6.5)
- Cost Efficiency - 10.7 gold per point of damage
- The Precision Upgrade increases the DPS by 10%
Related Upgrades
Kingdom Rush
Salvage (1 Star): Marksmen Towers return 90% of value when sold. (Normally a rate of return is 60%.)
- Eagle Eye (1 Star): Increases Marksmen attack range (+10%).
- Piercing Shots (2 Stars): Piercing shots ignore a portion of the enemy's physical armor.
- Far Shots (2 Stars): Increases marksmen attack range. (+10% from Eagle Eye)
- Precision (3 Stars): Marksmen attacks have a chance of dealing double damage.
Salvage (1 Star): Marksmen Towers return 90% of value when sold. (Normally a rate of return is 60%.)
Eagle Eye (1 Star): Increases Marksmen attack range (+10%).
Piercing Shots (2 Stars): Piercing shots ignore a portion of the enemy's physical armor.
Far Shots (2 Stars): Increases marksmen attack range. (+10% from Eagle Eye)
Precision (3 Stars): Marksmen attacks have a chance of dealing double damage.
Frontiers
- Steady Hand (1 Star): Increases marksmen attack range (+10%).
- Lumbermill (1 Star): Reduces basic archer construction costs. (-10 gold for level 1-3 archer towers)
- Focused Aim (2 Stars): Increases marksmen attack damage. (Archer Tower's damage increases to 5-7.)
- Accuracy (2 Stars): Increases marksmen attack range (+5% from Steady Hand) and damage. (Archer Tower's damage increases to 6-8.)
- Twin Shot (3 Stars): Marksmen have a 10% chance of shooting two projectiles at the same time.
Steady Hand (1 Star): Increases marksmen attack range (+10%).
Lumbermill (1 Star): Reduces basic archer construction costs. (-10 gold for level 1-3 archer towers)
Focused Aim (2 Stars): Increases marksmen attack damage. (Archer Tower's damage increases to 5-7.)
Accuracy (2 Stars): Increases marksmen attack range (+5% from Steady Hand) and damage. (Archer Tower's damage increases to 6-8.)
Twin Shot (3 Stars): Marksmen have a 10% chance of shooting two projectiles at the same time.
Related Achievements
None.
Quotes
- Archers ready!
- Bulls-eye!
- Dodge this!
Trivia
- "Dodge this!"
- A line spoken by the character Trinity in the 2000 film The Matrix .
