Dark Forge

Dark Forge
Type	Special Tower
Featured	Bonesburg
Damage	40-60
Attack Rate	Very slow (2.5s)
Range	Great
Scope in Major Axis	400

“

Electric funeral!

”

The Dark Forge, formerly called the Forbidden Forge, is a special tower only available in Bonesburg, the nineteenth level in Kingdom Rush: Frontiers.

Description

There is a single Dark Forge in the Campaign and Heroic Challenge modes and three Dark Forges in the Iron Challenge.

The Dark Forge shoots high-voltage electric currents at enemies similar to the Tesla x104 from the original Kingdom Rush. Its base damage value is very good, allowing it to deal heavy damage to single targets. However, it attacks very slowly, making it deal with crowds poorly, though this can be rectified somewhat with Lightning Strike. As a matter of fact, 2 Lightning Strike upgrades is all it takes to kill Bats in one shot on Casual and Normal. In many ways it resembles the Arcane Wizard: powerful single target damage, but generally ill-suited against large hordes. However, where the Arcane Wizard deals magic damage, the Dark Forge deals explosive damage, which ignores half of armor and all of magic resistance.

Abilities

Lightning Strike

It's electrifying!

Lightning strikes gain damage and will arc to additional targets*.

*: Deals 75% and 50% of the damage to the first additional target and the next targets, respectively. The description is incorrect saying 1/2/4 additional targets.

Level	Cost	Damage	Additional Targets
1	250	50-70	2
2	150	60-80	3
3	150	70-90	4

Flesh Golem

It's alive...

Animates Frankie, a mindless towering automaton that follows orders without question.

HP: 500, Respawn: 12 seconds, Heal Rate: 25 HP/s.

Level	Frankie	Cost	Damage	Armor
1		200	10-20 [2.0s]	Low (20%)
2		200	30-50 [1.0s]	Medium (40%)
3		200	30-50 [1.0s]	Medium (60%)

At level 2, Frankie gets new Jaxx v2 arms.

At level 3, Frankie gets a special area attack that deals 150 physical damage. (Cooldown: 6.5 seconds)

Strategy

• The Dark Forge is built on the key impact location but its innate attack is very slow and weak; it only hits a single target at once and the damage is not enough to outright kill even a Bat. Thus, it must rely on the Lightning Strike upgrade to deal any significant damage.
• Frankie's health will be restored to full upon upgrades like Death Rider.
• Dark Forge suffers reduction of chain lightning damage.
• Lightning Strike heals Frankie's HP by 10 when it arcs to him.
• Frankie's area attack is very effective at killing big groups of enemies such as Zombies.

Range

Standard range without upgrades

Frankie rally range

• 12% wider than DWAARP.
• Frankie's rally point range is 90% of Dark Forge.

Appearances

• Bonesburg

Related Upgrades

• Courage (3 Stars)
  • While in combat, soldiers & reinforcements regenerate health.

Quotes

• "It's aliiiiiiiive! Haha, haha!"
• "Eeeelectric funeral!"

Frankie:

• "Frank Smash!........"
• "(Snarl, snarl, snarl, snarl, snarl)"

Trivia

• Frankie the Flesh Golem is an obvious reference to Frankenstein's monster, a giant, grotesque creature made of flesh and animated by electricity that appears in Mary Shelley's Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
• "Electric funeral!"
  • The name of a song by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath
• "It's alive! Huahaha!"
  • A line spoken by the character Frankenstein in the 1931 film of the same name. It is spoken when the monster he has created comes to life.
• It's electrifying
  • A line from the song 'You're the one that I want" from the 1978 film musical Grease.
• "Frankie smash!"
  • A sleight on the catchphrase of the Hulk, who says "Hulk smash!"
• Jaxx v2 arms
  • A reference to the character Jackson "Jax" Briggs from the Mortal Kombat series. From Mortal Kombat 3 onwards, Jax has a set of metal arms fitted.
• Despite the prevalence of humans and human Towers, the Dark Forge is the only human-operated Artilery tower in the first three games of the series.

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