Jar Of Eyeballs

Tower defense style games are numerous, but this is by far the best one I have ever played: Warzone Tower Defense. It follows the standard tower defense recipe: swarms of enemies, lots and lots of gun turrets and ever-increasing difficulty. You can choose between five maps, and you can play each map either with or without air units.

You can place ten different units on the map: machine guns, cannons, heavy cannons, plasma cannons, flame throwers, pulse emitters, rockets launchers, flak cannons, laser cannons and concrete blocks. If you’re playing with ground units only, the rockets launcher and flak cannon are disabled. The trick to the game is using the units to build a narrow path the enemy has to follow. Here’s a screenshot that shows what I mean:

The enemy has to slalom around the pulse emitters (the green things). These emit blasts in all directions, damaging every unit that comes near it. While they follow this path, they are blasted by flamethrowers and cannons. At first this works very well, and most enemies barely make it past the entrance. You’ll soon find out they become tougher and you’ll have to upgrade your weapons. Every unit can be upgraded three levels. Eventually, however, nothing will stop them and they will survive whatever you throw at them.

In this screenshot, I was playing in ground-only mode. When you include aircraft as well, the game becomes a lot more difficult, because you can’t force aircraft to follow a certain path. In that case you need lots and lots of rockets and flak cannons to stop them, and usually the game will end because of aircraft.

I can’t imagine playing WoW without any addons, although I’m not going crazy and install dozens of them like some people. Here are a few of the most essential ones you just have to have:

• Bartender; this is a replacement for the action bar. It’s completely customizable (with scaling and opacity values) and you can easily assign hotkeys to it. You don’t need to set them in a menu, just hover over a button, press the hotkey you want to use and voila! And instead of a single bar with several pages on the bottom of the screen, you can have all bars active anywhere you want on the screen.
• Bagnon; this merges all your bags into a single frame. It’s especially useful for the bank, where you can have up to seven extra bags.
• Gatherer; this is a great addon for herbalists and miners. It remembers where you collected herbs or mined ore and displays it on your map, so you’ll know where you have the best chance to find stuff in the future. It can also display stuff found by members of your guild. This is a great plugin for use in Outland or Northrend, where you can just fly from one marker to the other. There are addons that do this automatically, but since these are considered bots they will get your ass banned.

The following three addons are the perfect combo for fast leveling:

• Tourguide; this is a leveling guide. It tells you exactly what quests to do in what order, and adapts itself to your own level. Usually, you’ll only stay in one area for no more than two levels, so you’ll never get bored from staying in one place too long. And to know exactly where you have to go, the next addon is great:
• Tomtom; this is a navigation tool. It tells you where to go with a floating arrow. You can set coördinates and waypoints yourself, or it can be used together with Tourguide. They integrate automatically, so Tomtom will point you exactly where to go.
• Lightheaded; this addon pulls the tips found on Wowhead and displays them in the game, so you don’t have to alt-tab out of the game to read them.

So that’s all I use. At one point I also had an addon that displays aggro, but since I’m not raiding or doing instances at the moment I disabled it. Feel free to let me know any other cool addons I just have to get!