Porta Westfalica

Route

1. 01Seven regions, one road: from Carthago to the Weser
2. 02I · Carthago — Miles, legionary
3. 03II–III · Judea and Syria — Tesserarius, Optio
4. 04IV · Britannia — Centurio
5. 05V · The Alps — Primus Pilus
6. 06VI–VII · Germania and Porta Westfalica — up to Dux

1. 01

   Build, upgrade, aim

   Towers go up beside the road; a click opens upgrade, focus and sell. You choose who each tower shoots, and when to call in Arrow Rain or Boulder Drop.

   • First · strongest · fastest
   • Arrow Rain · Boulder Drop

2. 02

   Sagittarii Tower

   One arrow at Tier I, four at Tier III and six on every tenth volley. Doctrines: Fire Arrows or Poison Arrows.

   • 25 gold
   • Fire · Poison Arrows
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3. 03

   Pilum Platform

   Heavy javelins that pierce armour: 72 base damage a hit at Tier III. Doctrines: a pilum that breaks armour, or a shaft through two more targets.

   • 50 gold
   • Armor-Break · Piercing Shaft
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4. 04

   Onager Tower

   Each stone also hits up to three foes around the target, and at Tier III knocks the target back. Doctrines: Shattering Stones or Shock Impact.

   • 75 gold
   • Up to 3 foes around the target
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5. 05

   Legionary Barracks

   Legionaries who hold the enemy on the road: two at Tier I, three with 400 HP each at Tier III. Doctrines: Shield Wall or Veteran Cohort.

   • 100 gold
   • Shield Wall · Veteran Cohort
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6. 06

   Auxilia Cavalry Camp

   Riders who cut off breakthroughs: one at Tier I, two at Tiers II and III. Doctrines: Scout Riders or Heavy Auxilia.

   • 125 gold
   • Scout Riders · Heavy Auxilia
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1. 01

   The prototype

   A 1100×620 canvas, “L1” circles for towers, dots for enemies, a first region already named Porta Westfalica. The towers kept their names and prices.

   • HTML · CSS · JavaScript
   • 1,161 lines of JavaScript
   

2. 02

   Strategy you can read

   After every level a Battle Report says what worked and what went wrong, and the Strategy Codex explains the enemies, formations and doctrines.

   • UI scale up to 150%

   Readable and accessible

   In-game screens and settings

   Before a wave

   the formation and its counter

   After a level

   a Battle Report: what worked

   Strategy Codex

   i6 sections

   UI scale

   90% to 150%

   Accessi­bility

   Reduced Motion, high-contrast threats

3. 03

   Characters made of parts

   Each enemy is a rig of separate parts, anchored for four directions. Ordinary enemies are pre-rendered into seven regional atlases.

   • 7 atlases
   • 4 directions
   

4. 04

   A living loading screen

   After the studio ident, the menu and active region load on a separate thread behind a five-second living illustration. Reduced Motion keeps it still.

   • Threaded loading
   • 5 s loop

5. 05

   A gate that tests itself

   Every push to the game’s code boots the official Godot 4.7.2 on Windows and runs the headless suite. Any error fails it, even after a PASS.

   • 200 test scripts

   Headless release gate

   GitHub Actions · windows-latest

   Engine

   official Godot 4.7.2

   Self-test

   broken fixtures must fail

   Atlases

   all seven versioned

   Each case

   i120 s, its own profile

   Fails on

   an error, a timeout or exit ≠ 0

   Reports kept for 7 days