Initializing prefabs with different scripts

Question

I am creating a tower defense game.

Currently I have 2 different tower types 'Shooting tower', amd 'Unit tower'.

I have a Scriptable object to initialize the tower. It contains some tower properties like its attack radius, damage and so on.

I am initializing my towers from a ScriptableObject called TowerSO, it also contains a prefab for a tower.

The problem here is that I have different properties for different tower types stored in TowerSO, for example, the unit tower has properties like spawnDelay, maximumUnitsToSpawn, while the archer tower doesn't need this info.

So I guess it is not good approach because anytime I add a new tower type with additional properties it would mean that TowerSO will grow more.

I also want to be able to initialize each tower when it's Instantiated but now I don't know what tower I am instantiating and I don't want to add specialized conditional logic for each type like if (towerType == ArcherTower)

Currently my code looks like this:

GameObject tower = Instantiate(
     
currentlySelectedTowerSO.prefab,
            new Vector3(gridPosition.x + xOffset, gridPosition.y + yOffset, currentlySelectedTowerSO.prefab.transform.position.z),
            Quaternion.identity);

// initialize knight tower(if it is a knight tower)
tower.GetComponent<KnightTower>().Initialize(maxUnitNumber, spawnDelay);
   
// initialize archer tower(if it is an archer tower)
            tower.GetComponent<KnightTower>().Initialize(minDamage, maxDamage, arrowSpeed);

How do I separate different tower properties to different Scriptable Objects with completely different fields, and also how do I initialize them, passing relative arguments to each tower?

• For ArcherTower (min-max damage, arrowSpeed...)

• For UnitTower(MaxUnitNumber, SpawnDelay)