Regarding the tower – I’d like to see how it works. And does a gremlin separate as a single unit, or is it lost from the main stack?
Gargoyles are a more useful unit, so they are always in short supply at the beginning, and you need to conserve them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRGBsvUIYfg
UPD1: By the way, you can kill zombies without any contact at all. You just need to take about 65 gremlins in the stack, not 80, so that the damage doesn't just go to waste on dead bodies, and that part of the damage can be redirected to the zombies.