🛡️ Armour & Fortifications Guide - Towers & Defence

Both, on different budgets. Crafted armour protects the two things the Town cannot replace cheaply: you and your Zombie Fighters. Towers and fortifications protect the Town itself during the purge battles that roll through the districts on the six-day cycle. Early on, armour for your personal fights is the cheaper and more urgent spend; once fighter squads start deploying from the Barracks, split output between squad armour and fortification upkeep.

Armour follows the same crafting hierarchy as the rest of your gear: simple metal parts from the early stations, better plate as your smithing line matures. The sequel explicitly pairs "craft powerful armour and weapons" with "arm and train your not-so-smart troops", so armour crafting is designed to scale from one Keeper set to outfitting squads. Your smithing mastery tree feeds directly into this — a Smithing-inherited zombie staffing the forge keeps armour production running while you are elsewhere.

• Arm the Keeper first — you are in every battle.
• Then the Barracks squads: four fighters per squad, each needing one armour slot filled.
• Smithing output recycles into both weapons and plate — see the weapons page.

The Town's districts — Central, Eastern, Western, Market Square, the Port and the sewers beneath — are the battlefields of the purge series, and the game lets you build the defense in advance. Towers and fortifications are the fixed half of your military: they hold ground while your squad and you move. The big set-piece defenses (district Purges, the breakthrough fights, the Final Battle) reward a Town that has been progressively restored and fortified, which ties your restoration economy directly to your survival.