Chapter 1 — The Long Watch

Level 6: Scorched Earth

🏜️ Desert 5 waves 2 entrances ⚠️ Disasters on

Narrow corridors through scorching desert. Brutes hunt your towers.

Map

Entrance ×2 (row 0, columns 1, 9)
Fortress (3×3, bottom centre)
💧 Lake ×2 (O-tetromino (2x2 block))
🗻 Mountain ×1 (S-tetromino (zigzag))
🌊 River ×1 (I-tetromino (1x4 line))

11×18 grid, 16 cells of it terrain. Terrain is impassable and unbuildable; enemies enter at the marked cells and path to the fortress.

Vitals

Starting gold60g

Waves5

Total enemies101

Difficulty●●○○○

3 stars★★★ ≥ 75% fortress HP

2 stars★★☆ ≥ 35% fortress HP

Arsenal

Towers: 💣 Cannon Tower ❄️ Frost Tower 🏹 Scout Tower

Spells: ⚡ Chain Lightning 🔥 Fireball 🧊 Freeze Burst

Enemies you will face: Boss Brute Flyer Grunt Healer Runner Tank

Waves

Wave	Composition	Count	Spawn gap	HP ×	Total HP	Kill gold
1	Runner×14 Grunt×8	22	0.55s	×1	780	22g
2	Brute×6 Tank×4 Grunt×6	16	0.5s	×1.22	2305.8	36g
3	Runner×12 Flyer×8 Healer×4	24	0.45s	×1.44	1411.2	36g
4	Brute×8 Tank×6 Healer×4	18	0.4s	×1.66	4017.2	50g
5	Boss×1 Brute×6 Runner×10 Healer×4	21	0.4s	×1.88	4775.2	51g

The wave counter resets per level, so HP scaling here starts from ×1 regardless of which level you are on.

Difficulty read

Total effective HP13289.4

Gold available275g (60 start + 195 kills + 20 bonus)

Leak damage if unopposed271 (5.4× the fortress's 50 HP)

Gold available assumes you kill everything. Against 13289.4 total HP, that is roughly 48.3 HP to remove per gold piece you will ever hold — a useful sanity check on whether this level wants more towers or more upgrades.