I have a different take but do agree with some of your findings. - Beacons are worth the investment. - Don't waste effort getting ballistas early. Prioritize 3 wood choppers on every entrance and you'll have plenty of wood for enough acorn cannons to fend off the first few days of attacks. Save those wooden boards to upgrade stone to stone brick so you can make the beacons as soon as you hit 100 light. I don't even touch ballistas until the damage booster spots are able to be used as 15 acorn cannons will handle everything until the ogres come. - Spike towers aren't worth the coins required. There's only 1-2 spots on every map they're better than acorn cannons as they're terrible against armor so you need them far enough back for the armor to be gone and spikes only hit + adjacent tiles and do the same damage as acorn towers. Simply not worth the coins until you can spare them. - If you focus on maxing out the intake at every entrance, you'll have your day 3 economy by close to the end of day 1. - Focusing on logistics is pointless on a whole. As you delete chunks of your system every time you deplete a node. You get back 100% of the resources selling production items. Nearly every time you expand your vision you'll be redoing chunks of your system to fit in more production of advanced materials. You *want* to focus on depleting nodes early to free up space and the fact you're swimming in wood and stone, if you prioritize maxing your intake, laying down a long snake of conveyors is the last of your worries. Just keep the production and the refiner close together so the conveyor going to the tower is the final product as you can't pull specific items off a line once mixed. - In terms of tower placement you want catapults up front hitting non-split areas targeting the furthest back. Then a few acorn towers targeting lowest health to not have your ballistas be wasted on them. Then the layer of ballistas set to highest armor and health. Finished off with acorn towers targeting a mix of fastest and lowest health, 2 crystals set to armor and highest health and fixed target and spike traps (only if they can hit 3 squares). Remember to delete the starting acorn cannons once you hit the max as half their range is inside your tower. With the right layout and all the upgrades you can get to day 7 fairly reliably. The most important upgrades are the acorn cannon damage, light upgrades, beacon, tower count and catapult speed upgrades. With those you'll reliably be able to beat the level. You will find early on the limiter is light and opening up more space. You never want to be waiting on resources once you hit 100 light.

Oh and btw when you were making the stakes, use a splitter, since it makes stakes slower than the wood gets produced, unlike making planks

thx! :)

something I didn't even think about before...do spike towers attack all 4 sides at one time? That would make sense that they have the same stats as the acorn tower, but with way more investment. But their placement would be much more limited.

@@Ganyonz Yes they do so placement is key. Corners is best

nope, once bonfires/beacons are placed, they can't be moved.