Rook with some bad topology

Here is my variant of a rook. The problem here was to make those spacings between merlons square, not triangular. I beveled edge ring on the top and got those recesses and some N-gons as a result. Subdivision would create too much of unnecessary geometry.

I don`t know what is better really. But the way I did it gives better LP look, harmonic proportions. Also it is still pretty close to the reference. At least the outline.

Extrude up maybe?

Gonna look ugly kinda.

There should be 6 merlons and 6 spacings, but I would go for 8. The problem is how to make them uniform and square without adding too much geometry.
I`ll leave it for now and maybe come back later with better modelling skills.

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