Archer Tower in Clash of Clans

1. Overview Archer Tower in Clash of Clans

Archer Tower is able to shot both ground and air target. Archer tower has the extremely shoot range. So this is one of the best defensive structures.

Archer Tower in Clash of Clans

2. The defensive tactics.

- Archer towers can shoot both ground and aerial targets with great distances. So you should put Archer tower outside the village, because it has a wide range and can cover for the rest of the defense system.

- Should put other defensive object in the range of Archer tower.

- Should upgrade Archer tower before Cannon tower because although upgrading Archer tower is the more expensive and take longer time than Cannon at same level but it has a wider range and can shoot both ground and aerial targets.

- Put 1 Archer tower near 1 Cannon or Mortar because two of these type cannot shoot goals in the air.

3. The attacking strategy.

- Due to Archer tower can shot both goals on the ground and in the air so Archer tower is one great defender. However, Archer tower can only damage one unit at one time. So if you use a large number of groups like Barbarian or Archer, you may easily destroy Archer tower.

- If you drop several Balloons, then stay away Archer tower because Balloon moves so slowly. Therefore you should deploy with huge number of Balloon simultaneously, Archer Tower will be damaged quickly, while you only lose 1-2 Balloon. After Archer tower (and Air defense) was destroyed, Balloon will continue to destroy the rest of the village (although it may have to face with the Wizard Tower). You can also drop one group of Archer (15-25 Archers) then let them do their work.

- The best offensive strategy is combining high health soldiers with low health one, because high health soldier will take the damage then lower health soldiers will attack.

4. The change after upgrading.

You can see the changes in the following picture.

Archer Tower in Clash of Clans

5. Addition

- Archer and Archer tower are not related to each other. So you do not need to train Archer to Archer tower and no need to unlock Archer in Barrack and Any upgrade of Archer in lab also does not affect to Archer tower.

- Archer tower is the first defender you can unlock to attack airborne troops.

- Number of Archers on the tower top does not matter because Archer tower with 3 Archers have the same range and speed as tower with 2 Archers.

- Archer is 1 of 2 tower defenses has soldiers on top (the other is Wizard tower defense).

- When you are upgrading or when Archer tower is moving Archers will not appear at the top.

- When the tower is being upgraded, the towers appear at the military base in the previous level, and no top Archer (Wizard tower, too).

- Archer tower (with Cannon) is 2 building currently has the most number of upgrades (13).

- Although you cannot upgrade Archer to level 5 until Lab achieve to level 6 (need Town Hall level), but you can know the appearance of Archer lever 5 because it’s same as the Archer in the top of Archer tower at level 8.

- At level 13, Archer tower can causes the damage ranked 2^nd for all defensive structure. It can shoot targets both on the ground and in the air, behind Tesla Hidden level 8.

- Since the Winter 2014, the new updated version allows Archer tower can shoot fast more 2 times than the previous but remained the damage. So it will be able to fire more units at same time.