Know Your Battlefield
Twenty waves of deal-hungry shoppers are coming for the vault. This is everything the warehouse crew wishes they'd told you: the ground, the guns, and the horde.
The battlefield
The rules of engagement are simple: kills earn margin (each enemy pays a bounty), clearing a wave pays a bonus of $40 + $6 per wave, and unspent cash earns 5% interest after every wave (capped at $200). Leaks cost lives. The vault holds 20. Upgrades cost 70% of base price per level; selling refunds 70% of everything you've put in.
Tower roster
Price Wall $60
- Damage
- 7
- Fire rate
- 1.30/s
- Range
- 112
- Special
- Slows 0.62×, 1.4s
Price friction slows the horde. Cheap, spammable, and makes every other tower better. Fires price-tag darts.
Stock Limit $120
- Damage
- 24
- Fire rate
- 0.85/s
- Range
- 124
- Special
- +50% vs stunned
One per customer. Firm. Your reliable mid-game damage dealer. Hurls downvote arrows.
Captcha Gate $180
- Damage
- 7
- Fire rate
- 0.70/s
- Range
- 104
- Special
- Stuns 1.4s
Prove you are human. Stops fast movers cold: the only answer to a Hunter sprint. Fires interrogation sparks.
Ban Hammer $260
- Damage
- 52
- Fire rate
- 0.45/s
- Range
- 132
- Special
- Splash 64
Splash damage. Permaban energy. Aim it where the pack is densest. Slams NEGGED stamps into the pack.
Honeypot Deal $200
- Damage
- 0
- Taunt
- 2.6s / 9s
- Range
- 116
- Special
- Diverts shoppers
A fake deal diverts shoppers. Zero damage, priceless crowd control at choke points.
Queue-it Room $350
- Damage
- 5
- Fire rate
- 1.0/s
- Range
- 134
- Special
- Aura slows 0.5×
Virtual waiting room. A permanent slow field plus chip damage. The late-game anchor.
Enemy bestiary
Lurker
- HP
- 34
- Speed
- 46
- Bounty
- $8
- Lives
- 1
Silent. Watches, never buys. Until today. Cannon fodder; any tower handles them.
Deal Bot
- HP
- 20
- Speed
- 96
- Bounty
- $11
- Lives
- 1
An automated checkout script with legs. Fragile but twice as fast as a Lurker.
Scalper
- HP
- 80
- Speed
- 62
- Bounty
- $20
- Lives
- 2
Buys to resell. Costs you two lives if it slips through. Prioritize it.
Coupon Clipper Armored
- HP
- 140
- Speed
- 50
- Bounty
- $26
- Lives
- 2
Shrugs off price-based towers. Price Wall and Stock Limit deal half damage. Answer with Captcha Gates and Ban Hammers.
Karen Aura
- HP
- 260
- Speed
- 42
- Bounty
- $46
- Lives
- 3
Her complaint aura slows every tower in a 92px radius. Kill her at long range or stun-lock her.
Price-Error Hunter
- HP
- 48
- Speed
- 150
- Bounty
- $32
- Lives
- 4
Blindingly fast and worth four lives. Slow fields and stuns are mandatory. DPS alone won't catch it.
The Influencer Boss · Wave 20
- HP
- 1100
- Speed
- 34
- Bounty
- $160
- Lives
- 5
Went viral. Brought followers: she spawns Deal Bots as she marches. On wave 20 she brings a co-headliner: The Scalper King. Save your stuns and hammers.
Bosses
Seven wholly fictional parody bosses headline the siege's milestone waves. Each with its own mechanic, its own portrait, and its own trophy. All artwork is original; no real people, no real usernames, no OzBargain logo.
The Banhammer Mod Boss · Wave 10
- HP
- 1500
- Speed
- 30
- Bounty
- $230
- Lives
- 6
Swings a ban-slam every 8s that stuns every tower within 145px for 2.5s. Spread your towers. A cluster around him goes dark together.
Ten-Thousand-Post Veteran Boss · Wave 15
- HP
- 1000
- Speed
- 28
- Bounty
- $190
- Lives
- 5
Ten thousand posts of armor-plated opinions. Marches at the head of a 14-Hunter swarm and spawns Deal Bots. Bring splash, stuns, and patience.
Deal Necromancer Boss · Wave 5
- HP
- 780
- Speed
- 36
- Bounty
- $210
- Lives
- 4
Raises fallen minions within 112px at half health (max 6 a wave). Kill it first. Every second it lives, your kills come back.
The Scalper King Boss · Wave 20
- HP
- 880
- Speed
- 42
- Bounty
- $200
- Lives
- 4
Fast and greedy. If he reaches the vault he skims $150 of your cash on top of the lives he costs: $300 on his home turf, the Scalper's Black Market. Never let him leak.
The Doomscroller Boss · Wave 12
- HP
- 1300
- Speed
- 48
- Bounty
- $260
- Lives
- 6
Its doomscroll aura slows nearby towers. Kill it BEFORE it parks on your line. A parked Doomscroller stalls your whole defense.
The Refund Kraken Boss · Wave 18
- HP
- 1500
- Speed
- 36
- Bounty
- $300
- Lives
- 8
Every 12s it surfaces and skims $30 straight out of the vault. Watch for the warn flash, then burst it before it dives again.
The Influencer Boss · Wave 20
- HP
- 1100
- Speed
- 34
- Bounty
- $160
- Lives
- 5
Wave 20 co-headliner. Converts the pack into followers and spawns Deal Bots mid-wave while the Scalper King sprints for your cash. Everything you have, now.
Documented legends
The bosses above are wholly fictional parody archetypes. The room that inspired them, though, is real. These are true, sourced stories from OzBargain's public history: archetypes only, documented with affection, and never used as targets here.
The Verber
A 2011 Logitech 100%-cashback deal brought on jokes about shelf-clearing "only to have the shelf-clearer himself post." The thread where a username became the room's shorthand for clearing the shelves. (wiki/epic_threads #10)
The Record Debut: the Tesla vote record
Member of the Month, March 2019, for the most-voted deal in site history at the time: a Tesla Model S at $164,465 with +2,831 votes. (node/451240)
The Drone Spotter: the $298 drone
Posted Bunnings' $298 DJI Mavic 2 Zoom price error. "Thanks Bunnings for making all of us SUPER HAPPY." One of the most beloved price errors ever posted. (node/490047)
The Tattooed Loyalist: the tattoo
During a scare about the "Death of Ozbargain", one loyalist got an OzBargain tattoo. The wiki's permanent record of the room's most permanent declaration of loyalty. (wiki/epic_threads #36)
Four highlights from the ten documented legends, with sources: Lore, Part 8: Deal-thread legends.
Field tactics
- Slow first, damage second. A $60 Price Wall makes your $120 Stock Limit dramatically more lethal. Open every run with friction.
- Respect the armor. Coupon Clippers take half damage from Price Walls and Stock Limits. Keep a Captcha Gate or Ban Hammer covering every lane they walk.
- Taunt the bends. A Honeypot Deal at a path bend diverts the whole pack for 2.6 seconds every 9. That's free damage time for everything in range.
- Don't brawl a Karen. Her aura cripples nearby fire rates. Snipe her from outside 92px or chain stuns until she drops.
- Bank early. 5% interest per wave compounds hard. If the next wave looks easy, hold your cash and let it work.
- Wave 5: kill the Necromancer first. Everything else on the wave is a distraction. Focus fire the boss before it starts resurrecting your kills.
- Wave 10: spread out. The Banhammer Mod's ban-slam stuns clustered towers. Ring the path with lone towers instead of one death-ball.
- Wave 15 is a two-front war. The Veteran's Hunter swarm needs slows and splash; the Veteran itself needs single-target focus. Split your coverage.
- Wave 20 is a siege, not a wave. Two bosses at once: the Influencer's bot entourage and the Scalper King sprinting for your cash. Max out Ban Hammers on the final bends, keep Captcha Gates ready, sell and reposition without mercy.
- Set targeting per tower. Click a tower and cycle its priority (T): First, Strong, Fast, Close. Captcha Gates on Fast snipe Hunters; Ban Hammers on Strong focus bosses.
- Combo your crowd control. Slowed shoppers take +30% from Ban Hammers (shatter); stunned shoppers take +50% from Stock Limits. Price Wall → Ban Hammer is a combo, not just coverage.
- Blitz easy waves. Send the next wave within 10 seconds of a clear to double the interest payout. Read the wave preview. If it's lurkers and deal bots, skip the shopping and bank the bonus.
- Save the Mod Intervention. $200, one 400-damage nuke, 3-wave cooldown. It's for the moment a boss walks through your kill zone at 10%. Not for wave 3.
Tip: append ?seed=777 to the game URL to replay an exact wave sequence. Every seed deals the same 20 waves.
Unofficial parody tribute. Not affiliated with OzBargain. All stats taken from the live game build.