Chapter 1 — The Long Watch

Level 8: The Gauntlet

🌲 Forest 6 waves 4 entrances ⚠️ Disasters on

Four entrances. Spread thin or be overrun.

Map

Entrance ×4 (row 0, columns 0, 3, 7, 10)
Fortress (3×3, bottom centre)
💧 Lake ×1 (O-tetromino (2x2 block))
🌳 Forest ×2 (T-tetromino (T-shape))
🌿 Swamp ×1 (L-tetromino (L-shape))

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 gold75g

Waves6

Total enemies153

Difficulty●●●○○

3 stars★★★ ≥ 65% fortress HP

2 stars★★☆ ≥ 25% fortress HP

Arsenal

Towers: ⚔️ Barracks 💣 Cannon Tower ❄️ Frost Tower 🏹 Scout Tower

Spells: ⚡ Chain Lightning 🔥 Fireball 🧊 Freeze Burst

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

Waves

Wave	Composition	Count	Spawn gap	HP ×	Total HP	Kill gold
1	Runner×18 Grunt×12	30	0.5s	×1	1080	30g
2	Tank×8 Flyer×6 Healer×4	18	0.5s	×1.22	2366.8	44g
3	Runner×16 Splitter×8 Grunt×8	32	0.4s	×1.44	1900.8	40g
4	Boss×1 Tank×6 Brute×6 Healer×4	17	0.45s	×1.66	5511.2	59g
5	Runner×20 Flyer×10 Splitter×6	36	0.35s	×1.88	2932.8	52g
6	Boss×2 Tank×8 Healer×6 Brute×4	20	0.4s	×2.1	9765	78g

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

Difficulty read

Total effective HP23556.6

Gold available402g (75 start + 303 kills + 24 bonus)

Leak damage if unopposed421 (8.4× the fortress's 50 HP)

Gold available assumes you kill everything. Against 23556.6 total HP, that is roughly 58.6 HP to remove per gold piece you will ever hold — a useful sanity check on whether this level wants more towers or more upgrades.