The roots of the tower defense genre?

Ever played those awesome Warcraft 3 mods?

I am pretty sure that blizzard pulled out tower defense first. may it be with warcraft or starcraft.

No, you just played an RTS game and played it as a turtle.

I'm pretty sure England invented Tower Defense, back in like the middle ages

In the sense yes. The first time I've played a Tower Defense game was when I was an avid WC3 Custom game participant.there were countless tower defense games that tests your abilities to maze and manage your income.

Yes, Warcraft 3 was probably my first encounter with tower defense as we know it today - with tower upgrades and creeps walking on defined paths.

And my favorite TD is stil Gem Tower Defense map for Warcraft 3.

Tower defense first appeared in Starcraft (not Starcraft 2) custom games, called Use Map Settings. One that comes of the top of my head at the moment is Sunken Defense. After this they were also very popular in Warcraft 3 mods.

I remember playing so many of them in the first Starcraft. That's the only thing I played at the time.