Slice N Dice Blockade

Slice N Dice Blockade
Tower Statistics
Defense/Minion Units	8
Mana Cost:	140

The Slice N Dice Blockade, colloquially known as the Spinner, is the highest-level tower that the Squire and Countess have access to. The tower has a small spin-up time before attacking and obtaining maximum damage, but it inflicts the most damage over time on a single enemy out of any of the Squire's towers.

Defense Area of Effect determines the range at which the Slice N Dice Blockade starts spinning, not the attack range; the attack range always starts at 1.45 and reaches up to 4.42 regardless of stats. Defense Attack Rate does not affect the attack speed of this tower, only the warm-up time. The tower always hits every 0.2 seconds.

Usage

If a party has extra defense units, then these towers are a good replacement for less costly blockades. For a soloing Squire, the Slice N Dice is particularly effective because it combines high health with good damage output. Under most normal circumstances, placing this tower properly (e.g. hidden behind a corner) will make it both safe from enemy attacks as well as extremely deadly to anything less than an ogre.

The health on these towers is high but they do require the player to repair them occasionally, as Kobolds and Dark Elf Archers may hit them if not accompanied by other towers. Another potential threat to this Tower are the Dark Elf Mages and their endless Skeletons, which can take it down over a long period of time.

Upgrade Table

Level	Health	Damage	Attack Rate (in sec)	Attack Range	Spin-up Time*	Upgrade Cost
Base	537	25	0.10	4.35	15.00	140
	917	50	0.10	5.23	11.37	100
	1290	78	0.10	5.89	9.63	200
	1910	128	0.10	6.76	8.00	400
	2579	187	0.10	7.50	6.94	700
	3329	258	0.10	8.19	6.13	1220

• *Spin-up Time = Seconds to reach maximum spin speed

• Upgrading a hero defense increases its damage by 10% per level and its health, lifespan or detonation count by 20%. A fully upgraded defense will have +50% damage and +100% health/lifespan/detonation count.

• In Redux, any defense not a Lightning or Deadly Striker Tower instead gains +20% damage per upgrade, for a total of +100% if maxed out.

• On the other hand, upgrading a defense treats as if the builder's Range and Defense Rate stats were higher. A level 1 turret receives a +2 bonus, while a level 5 turret gets +36.