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Well, I wouldn't say that the Tower is completely in the same boat as others on MM6 and similar templates. After all, conss and hives are taken normally by the Tower too, and they deal damage regardless of racial affiliation.
The Tower just lags behind in tempo by a day or two on average due to difficulties with buying out and the need for upgrades; that's where the troubles come from. But the variance across different layouts is much higher.
Plus, there is the bargaining mechanism, which partially fixes the Tower's finances.
In Crazy Races-2, if you remember, 2 Towers out of the 3 entered made it to the semifinals.
I'm kind of too lazy to register on bay again, so I don't remember... but in skilled hands, any Castle rules :)
It's just my opinion that the Tower is least tailored toward the general power trend of game development
and taking those first conss as a Tower isn't exactly a walk in the park either ;)
and if you don't get lucky with hives-conss, it's actually possible to enter the Dragon Utopia later than other Castles, which take it on their 3rd (or even 2nd with experience) native growth + maybe some external dwelling
but overall yes -- the bargaining system levels things out a bit..... sigh -- if only there were cap downgrades!.... :D :D full-weight mili is too fat for them imho, although it might be easier to make