Legion TD is an auto battler video game series. The Legion TD 1 was a Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne player-made mod, released by Lisk in the late 2000s [1] . The second generation is a standalone game that retains most of the first game's mechanics, with only minor content changes.
Legion TD is a foundational work of the auto-battler genre.
The first-generation Legion TD is a player-made map created using the Warcraft III World Editor, released by Lisk in the late 2000s and then open-sourced. It was localized into Chinese and updated by Su Shui. [2]
The in-mod characters come from Warcraft III. The game supports 2, 4, 6, and 8 players, split into two teams to compete against each other. It combines PvP and tower defense elements, uses a turn-based format, and allows players within the same round to spend gold to deploy soldiers to defend an immobile king; and to spend lumber to deploy soldiers to attack the enemy king. Gold can also be used to buy lumber-harvesting wisps, and lumber can also be used to upgrade the king's own armaments.
The fun of the game lies in that hiring wisps with gold increases the rate of lumber acquisition, while spending lumber also increases the rate of gold acquisition—each reinforces the other, creating a self-sustaining war economy.
It influenced the development of auto-battler games, including but not limited to Rush Royale、Clash Royale, Teamfight Tactics etc..
Legion TD 2 is a standalone game developed by New Zealand game company AutoAttack Games, released on 20 November 2017. It no longer requires Warcraft III as a platform. It retains the first game's gameplay, but replaces lumber with “Crystals”. The game has 8 factions, each with 6 different unit types. [3]
The game is not well optimized and often suffers from stuttering and disconnects, so many players still choose the first-generation map based on Warcraft III.