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Description

The Commander is a support tower that buffs the Damage and Range of nearby towers, with its buffs being able to stack with other support towers like Medic and John. It also has three unique abilities that aid the player on the battlefield, Those being the Call To Arms ability which grants a temporary damage buff and allows the Commander to attack, Spawn APC, which spawns an APC allowing for chip damage and cleanup, and Air Strike ability, which can be targeted to any area on the map to deal 2,000 Damage in an area, making it useful against enemies like the Specter, or can be used for chip damage.

The Commander was first obtainable from the Tower Battles Part I battlepass or by purchasing it separately for 550 prior to 23 October 2024. It is also available in the Special Forces loadout for VIP players in event maps. On December 3rd, 2025, the tower was made permanently obtainable, being purchasable with either 10,000 or 775.

Upgrades

The Commander only has one path that provides support capabilities. On the first level, it provides range and damage buffs, increasing with each level. On levels 3-5 it gains abilities each level, with these being: Call To Arms, Stryker Call, and Airstrike. Its Call To Arms ability will allow it to deal 13 Damage^[1] to enemies for the ability's duration, The Stryker Call ability allows it to spawn an APC Unit, and the Airstrike ability allows it to target a designated area to deal 2000 damage in a 6 Splash radius ignoring Explosive Resistance, albeit lacking Splash Transfer.

$500

STRONGER SIGNALS

+15 Health

+5.0 Range

$1,500

RANGE TRAINING

+25 Health

+5% Range Buff

$4,300

CALL TO ARMS

+150 Health

Ability: Call to Arms (I)

$5,500

ORGANIZED MILITIA

+350 Health

+10% Range Buff

Ability: Spawn APC

Ability: Call to Arms (I) → Call to Arms (II)

$21,000

AIRSTRIKE

+1,250 Health

+10% Range Buff

+2% Damage Buff

+8.0 Range

APC | 800 HP | 0 DPS | 1 every 85s

Ability: Call to Arms (II) → Call to Arms (III)

Ability: Airstrike

Abilities

• Level 1
• Level 2
• Level 3

CALL TO ARMS

TYPE: INTERACTIVE

LEVEL UNLOCKED: 3

COOLDOWN: 45.00s

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Buffs the damage of nearby towers while shooting at a target. Additionally Stacks with 5-X John and X-4+ Medic's respective abilities.

• Damage Buff: 30% for 10s

CALL TO ARMS

TYPE: INTERACTIVE

LEVEL UNLOCKED: 4

COOLDOWN: 45.00s

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Buffs the damage of nearby towers while shooting at a target. Additionally Stacks with 5-X John and X-4+ Medic's respective abilities.

• Damage Buff: 30% for 14s

SPAWN APC

TYPE: INTERACTIVE

LEVEL UNLOCKED: 4

COOLDOWN: 30.00s

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Spawns an APC at the base.

Spawn: APC | 800 HP

CALL TO ARMS

TYPE: INTERACTIVE

LEVEL UNLOCKED: 5

COOLDOWN: 45.00s

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Buffs the damage of nearby towers while shooting at a target. Additionally Stacks with 5-X John and X-4+ Medic's respective abilities.

• Damage Buff: 30% for 20s

SPAWN APC

TYPE: INTERACTIVE

LEVEL UNLOCKED: 4

COOLDOWN: 30.00s

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Spawns an APC at the base.

Spawn: APC | 800 HP

AIRSTRIKE

TYPE: INTERACTIVE

LEVEL UNLOCKED: 5

COOLDOWN: 20.00s

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Calls in an F-22 Raptor to drop a bomb on the selected area.

• 2,000.0 Damage
• 6.0 Splash Radius
• Ignore Explosion Resistance

Stats Table

Level	Total Cost	Health	Range Buff	Damage Buff	Range	Cost : Range Buff	Cost : Damage Buff
0	$1,250	300	5%	5%	8.0	250 : 1%	250 : 1%
1	$1,750	315	5%	5%	13.0	350 : 1%	350 : 1%
2	$3,250	340	10%	5%	13.0	325 : 1%	650 : 1%
3	$7,550	490	10%	5%	13.0	755 : 1%	1,510 : 1%
4	$13,050	840	20%	5%	13.0	652.5 : 1%	2,610 : 1%
5	$34,050	2,090	30%	7%	21.0	1,135 : 1%	4,864.3 : 1%

Units

Unit	APC

Skins

To see all the upgrades of a skin, see the gallery page.

Skin	GDA	Substitute	Lifeguard
Rarity	Exclusive	Exclusive	Exclusive
Obtainment Method	Tower Battles Part I	Tower Battles Part I	Tower Battles Part I
Skin	Pirate	Pumpkin	Melu
Rarity	Exclusive	Exclusive	Legendary
Skin	Easter
Rarity	Exclusive
Obtainment Method	2026 Easter Event

Strategies

• Unlike the EDJ, the Commander has much higher range, allowing for more leniency when placing it down.
  • This range can also be buffed by EDJs and other Commanders as well, but doesn't stack with them.
  • Note that Commander cannot buff Towers unable to have range buffs.
• It is worth spamming Commanders and using the abilities as this will allow for more damage to be dealt.
  • You can use the bottom path EDJ to decrease the cooldown of the Commander's abilities.
• The Airstrike ability can be used in a similar vain to the Artillery by targeting summoner enemies like the Specter and bypassing the other enemies.
  • It also ignores Explosive Resistance.
• Its range buff allows towers with low range like the Shotgunner to have larger range, increasing their effectiveness.
• To keep the Call To Arms ability on 100% uptime, you can place down 2-3 max level Commanders to “chain” the ability.
• The Commander's damage buff is generally more applicable than EDJ's firerate buff, since some towers like 5-x Missile Trooper and x-5 Railgunner have aim time instead of reload time, which is unaffected by rate-of-fire buffs.
  • However, EDJ is better in loadouts with Refractor, since Refractor can't have it's damage increased, but it can have its firerate improved.
• Since its damage buff uniquely stacks with other support towers, the Commander can be combined with John/Medic to provide 80% and 230% increased damage respectively if you use both of their abilities at once.
• Like other support towers, the Commander is completely useless on towers that cannot receive friendly buffs.
  • Unlike other support towers, the Commander still has some niche uses with these towers, providing direct damage with his APC and Airstrike abilities.

Trivia

• The Commander is based off the Commander from Tower Battles as part of the collab and functions much the same, but with minor differences.
  • In Tower Battles, the Commander provides both range and firerate buffs. In Tower Defense X, the Commander instead provides range and damage buffs, likely because of the existence of the EDJ which already gives a firerate buff.
  • The Airstrike ability in Tower Battles costs $1,200 to use and deals 450 damage. In Tower Defense X, the Airstrike ability is free and deals 2,000 damage.
  • The Spawn APC ability in Tower Battles costs $600 to use, with the Stryker having 600 health points. In Tower Defense X, this ability is free, with the Stryker having 800 health points.
  • Call to Arms in Tower Battles grants higher firerate temporarily. This is replaced with a 30% damage buff since this Commander does not give a firerate buff.
• There is a bug with the Commander where during Call to Arms, the gun will be brought out but still remain in the holster simultaneously.
  • This may be an intentional homage to the original Tower Battles Commander, since this also happens to it when using Call to Arms.
• This is the only tower that can shoot through wall colliders.
  • It is unknown if this is intentional.
• The Substitute Commander is voiced by Fribaru.
• The GDA Commander is partly a reference to Tower Defense Simulator, as his voice lines are remakes of the ones GDILIVES did for Tower Defense Simulator.
• The Commander alongside the Z.E.D. are the first towers to have only one upgrade path.
• The Commander is the first tower to have its obtainment method changed, and is also the first tower that could be obtained in the most different ways.
  • Originally, it was obtainable through the Tower Battles Battle Pass and purchased with 550 Robux. Then, on December 3rd of 2025, it was made obtainable permanently with 775 Robux or 10,000 Crystals.
  • Originally, the Commander was stated to come back in Part 2 of the Tower Battles x TDX collab.

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