Burning Mirror

The Sun’s attack tower. A circle tower: a steady ray that burns more the longer it stays on its target.

SunAttack

Cost	50 wind
Health	65
Range	5.25 cells
Damage	from 4 to 26 per second, +4 every second on the target
Shot	continuous beam, direct
Shot pattern	circle: all around

In the game: “circle, short: the longer it stays on a target, the more it burns”

How to use it

The Mirror keeps a ray on a target within 5.25 cells. It starts at 4 damage per second and goes up by 4 every second, up to 26. It does best against sturdy targets that don’t move: apart from Walls, anything that stays put for a long time. It’s a circle tower: it shoots all around, but short. The ray is direct: an enemy Wall on the line stops it.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strong

The highest damage per second once the ray is hot.
With the Tailwind it burns ×1.5.

Weak

Under Rain and in a Storm it deals half damage.
In Fog it loses range.
Every time it changes target it starts over.

Counter

A Cloud Wall takes away its line. A Hail Mortar that has it on its row or its column hits it from farther away. Wait for the rain to attack where there are many of them.

Relations

Generated from the game’s tables and from how the computer plays.

The computer answers it with: Hail Mortar, Lightning Pylon, Gust Tower.
You guard against it with: Cloud Wall, Mist, Light Shield.
Stopped by: Cloud Wall.
Weakened by: Mist.
Shut down by: Eclipse.
Slowed by: Deluge.

With the weather

Sky	Effect
Storm	hinders damage ×0.5
Tailwind	helps damage ×1.5
Rain	hinders damage ×0.5
Fog	hinders range ×0.6

What’s new

v23.1 When a terrace or a building is in the way, the Burning Mirror’s beam hits the target higher up instead of going through the wall.
v22.3 The “New in this sky” cards and some Bestiary cards say things more simply. The Cloud Wall, for example, now says: “It stops shots from enemy Gust Towers and Burning Mirrors. Put it between their towers and your buildings.”
v22 Towers come in two families. Cross towers shoot far, but only straight along their row and column: Gust Tower, Hail Mortar, Arch of High Winds. Circle towers shoot all around, but short: Lightning Pylon, Burning Mirror, Twin Mirror.
v17.1 Element study: whoever offers a Keeper studies the element the fallen side built with most, and can place its study building, even without that spring: Arch of High Winds, Thunder Well, Cistern, Twin Mirror.
v17 Flyers don’t need bridges, but they can’t fly for long and go back to the nest to rest. Each family has just one counter: the Mirror for kites, Mist for sparks, the Gust for clouds, the Pylon for lanterns.
v16.1 A Fog sky still shortens Gusts and Mirrors, but now you can see it. While you place a tower, its circle shows its range right now, and the full range stays dashed and faint. The same goes for the circles of enemy towers.
v06 The two sides start even, with the same mirrored pieces.