Fomorian Company Prototype

A prototype tower defence game with unlimited waves, set in an alternative WW1.  Unlike most tower defence games, the enemy units can shoot back or even be scared off through repeated near misses or even coming face-to-face with your scarier units.

Units and overview

You have four types of units:

• Fomorians (line infantry). Basically Irish-speaking orcs. Solid all-rounders with an intimidating appearance.
• Officer (support). An ambitious inexperienced but keen junior officer, providing some aim and morale boosts to nearby units.
• Firnathair (specialist). Snakepeople mercenaries, signing on to provide long-range sniper cover. Very stealth and terrifying at close range.
• Vickers gun (heavy). The ever-reliable Vickers gun is heavy, expensive and slow to retreat, but powerful and has long range.

Some waffling lore

The "Fomorians" of western Ireland are notorious for their brute strength and for having mutated from the dwarves and humans of Connacht in the aftermath of an unexplained disaster. As of 1917, it is known how they gained their strength: an environmental hazard that causes extreme muscle growth, one that some British soldiers have also been exposed to.

And so, as the war that everyone has been waiting for breaks out, the British military dispatches a company of Fomorians to raise havoc behind the enemy's lines. And with the Fomorians go some snakepeople mercenaries who have moved into Connacht.

Not to be outdone, the dwarves of Ireland dispatch their Mechanised Brigade to help plug the holes in the lines.

Future plans

• Add the dwarves of Ireland as an alternative faction, focussing on close-range and mechanised warfare.
• Unit upgrades. What kind of tower defence game doesn't have these?!?!?
• Add a campaign map, allowing the player to affect the outcome of the war.
• Include a level editor, allowing the player to design their own levels.