Chapter 2 — The Long War

Level 19: Iron Tide

🏜️ Desert 8 waves 4 entrances ⚠️ Disasters on

Armored ranks rolling in. Slow them or be crushed.

Map

Entrance ×4 (row 0, columns 0, 3, 7, 10)
Fortress (3×3, bottom centre)
💧 Lake ×1 (O-tetromino (2x2 block))
🗻 Mountain ×2 (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 gold115g

Waves8

Total enemies254

Difficulty●●●○○

3 stars★★★ ≥ 50% fortress HP

2 stars★★☆ ≥ 20% 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	Tank×10 Grunt×10	20	0.5s	×1	2250	40g
2	Brute×10 Tank×8 Runner×8	26	0.45s	×1.22	3879.6	62g
3	Tank×12 Brute×8 Healer×6	26	0.4s	×1.44	5140.8	72g
4	Boss×1 Tank×10 Brute×10 Healer×6	27	0.4s	×1.66	7818.6	87g
5	Tank×14 Brute×12 Flyer×8	34	0.35s	×1.88	9024	94g
6	Tank×12 Brute×10 Healer×8 Splitter×8	38	0.35s	×2.1	9282	98g
7	Boss×1 Tank×14 Brute×12 Healer×8	35	0.3s	×2.32	13456	109g
8	Tank×16 Brute×14 Healer×10 Flyer×8	48	0.3s	×2.54	14757.4	126g

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

Difficulty read

Total effective HP65608.4

Gold available835g (115 start + 688 kills + 32 bonus)

Leak damage if unopposed1126 (22.5× the fortress's 50 HP)

Gold available assumes you kill everything. Against 65608.4 total HP, that is roughly 78.6 HP to remove per gold piece you will ever hold — a useful sanity check on whether this level wants more towers or more upgrades.