Musketeer Garrison

This article is about the tower in Kingdom Rush. For the enemy in Kingdom Rush: Vengeance, see Musketeer.

Musketeer Garrison
Type	Ranged Tower
Level	4
Introduced	Coldstep Mines
Build Cost	230 G
Damage	35-65
Attack Rate	1.5s (1.83s on Steam)
Range	Extreme
Scope in Major Axis	470

“

Locked and loaded!

”

The Musketeer Garrison is a Level 4 archer tower, with an insane range and decent damage per shot. Its abilities include the Sniper Shot, which can instantly kill any enemy regardless of armor, and the Shrapnel Shot, which deals splash damage to enemies in range. When compared to its counterpart, the Rangers Hideout, the Musketeer Garrison has a wider range and can take out even the toughest enemies with one shot, but deals less damage over time and has worse crowd control.

Description

Patient, careful, and deadly accurate long-range deadeye shooters, with advanced weaponry.

Unlike other archer towers, Musketeers fire quite slowly, but in return, each shot deals very high damage and can reach very far.

Sniper Shot is one of the two instant kill abilities in the game, the other one being the Arcane Wizard's Death Ray. Though not guaranteed to kill the target, it can still prove handy, especially during Iron Challenges where Mage Towers are locked. 

Shrapnel Shot is a fairly generic area-of-effect damage ability. Often underrated, it's actually quite reliable against masses of mid-level enemies, but also rather expensive.

Abilities

Sniper Shot

"One shot...one kill..."

Long range (*1.5 range) shot with increasing chance of instantly killing an enemy or dealing massive physical damage. If it fails, it deals extra damage equal to the insta-kill chance multiplied by the target's max HP in addition to basic attack damage. (Cooldown: 14 seconds)

Level	Cost	Insta-kill Chance
1	250	20%
2	250	40%
3	250	60%

Shrapnel Shot

"Eat grapeshot!" (Flash and Steam) "It won't hurt...for long." (mobile)

Short range (*0.5 range) shot that blasts an area (96) with shrapnel, dealing explosive damage to all ground-based enemies within range. (Cooldown: 9 seconds)

It is a cluster of 6 grapes, dealing 10-40 / 20-80 / 30-120 area damage each.

Steam version's Shrapnel Shot is consisted of 5 grapes which deal 40/80/120 area damage each.

Level	Cost	Damage
1	300	50-200
2	300	100-400
3	300	150-600

Range

Sharpshooter to Musketeer Garrison

Standard range without Upgrades

• 68% wider than Level 1 Archer Tower
• 47% wider than Level 2 Marksmen Tower
• 31% wider than Level 3 Sharpshooter Tower
• 18% wider than Rangers Hideout

Strategy

The Musketeers are best for stemming the flow of a few, strong enemies, while the Ranger's Hideout is best used for hordes of weak enemies, like Bandits and Giant Spiders. They deal less damage/second than the Rangers Hideout but have superior range. This makes them very useful in lending support to other towers; place them in a location where their range reaches multiple choke points.

Additional Stats

• DPS: 23.33 to 43.33 (average 33.33) | 19.13 to 35.52 on Steam (average 27.32)
• Total Cost: 570 G
• Cost Efficiency: 17.1 gold per point of DPS | 20.86 on Steam
• The Precision upgrade increases the base DPS by 10%: 25.66 to 47.66 (average 36.66)

Related Upgrades

• Salvage (1 Star)
  • Marksmen Towers return 90% of value when sold. (Normal rate of return is 60%.)
• Eagle Eye (1 Star)
  • Increases Marksmen attack range (by 10%).
• Piercing Shots (2 Stars)
  • Piercing shots ignore a portion of the enemy's physical armor. (10%)
• Far Shots (2 Stars)
  • Increases marksmen attack range (by 10%, stacks multiplicatively for 21% total).
• Precision (3 Stars)
  • Marksmen attacks have a chance of dealing double damage. (10%)

Related Achievements

50 SHOTS 50 KILLS Snipe 50 enemies.

Quotes

• "This is my boomstick!" (main)
• "Locked and loaded!" (main)
• "One shot...one kill..." (Sniper Shot)
• "Fire at will!" (Shrapnel Shot)

Trivia

• "This is my boomstick"
  • A line spoken by the character Ash in the 1992 cult film Army of Darkness. Ash impresses and frightens the medieval peasants with his double-barreled shotgun, by shooting a knight's sword in two.
• "One shot, one kill."
  • A term used to describe the most efficient way of causing a death with a fire arm. A head-shot kills instantly, and you only need to use one bullet.
• "Fire at will!"
  • A commonly used term to stop following procedure and use as much power and force as necessary to get the job done.
• The Musketeer Garrison is the only advanced tower across all three Kingdom Rush games that only has one related achievement instead of the usual two.

Gallery

TowerSkill Musketeer 1.PNG

Sniper Shot

One shot, one kill...

Eat grapeshot!

A musketeer right before firing and one right after.

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