Warstone TD Gold Edition

Warstone TD is a tower defense game in which you build a city, train an army and defend a realm from an invading force. A fearsome Chieftain is gathering troops to subjugate the realm, and you must help the Villagers by raising defenders and finding allies, including dwarves, amazons and sorceresses.

Place your defenders

Rather than placing towers wherever you like from the start, you summon defenders on stones. Levels begin with a mostly empty map and a few stones; more appear as the level progresses, and some drop from enemies. You can place defenders on any valid position with a stone. Powerful Warstones also appear occasionally, giving significant bonuses to defenders standing on them.

You can summon five basic defenders: Peasant, Archer, Rifleman, Sorceress and Elemental. Each has its own upgrade path, damage type, gold cost and special abilities. The game has seven basic units, with a further 15 available as upgrades. You can improve defenders in the workshop through multiple upgrade tiers, with more upgrades becoming available as you build and improve your town.

Story missions and modes

The campaign has 30 story missions, each with Campaign, Challenge and Survival modes. You can choose from four difficulty settings for each mission: Easy, Normal, Hard and Nightmare. Each mode has a unique achievement that awards a star when completed; stars are gold for Nightmare, silver for Hard and bronze for Normal. Missions allow multiple possible solutions, and online leaderboards track scores in Campaign and PvP.

Other modes include Classic, Maze, Hero Defense, Attack/Defend and co-op missions. Challenge and Survival also appear among the modes available for each story mission. Attack/Defend is used for PvP, where tactics draw on the range of defenders and class skills.

Classes and skills

After you progress through the first four campaign missions, you can choose skills from three non-linear classes. You can mix skills from any class, but must focus on one to reach its most powerful skills. Across the classes, there are over 70 skills.

• Warlord: strengthens defenders and their abilities, uses stone powers to slow nearby enemies or grant mana and gold, and lets defenders rank up during battle.
• Treasurer: increases enemy bounties, lowers the cost of your defenders, and improves item storage and the chance of finding scrolls and potions. The Treasurer can also unlock a spell that turns an enemy into gold, and can field a larger army than the other classes.
• Sorcerer: can complete levels using spells alone and bring up to eight spells into battle. Sorcerer skills improve spell effects, restore mana and unlock stronger spells, and can transform units into mana.

Spells and extra units

Spells include Firewall, Lightning, Meteor Shower, Titan's Fist, Summon Elemental, Poisonous Cloud and Transmutation, among others. You can bring only four spells into battle except as the Sorcerer, who can take up to eight. Sorcerer spells also include Reduction, which shrinks and weakens monsters, and Teleportation, which moves defenders to any available stone on the map.

Attack/Defend missions have two additional base units: the Eagle and the Wolf. Both have branching upgrade paths, like the basic defenders.