| “ | Tower with a ranged attack. Units can garrison inside for protection. Ranged Units and Villagers shoot additional projectiles. | ” |
| —Age of Empires II description | ||
The Sea Tower is an unconstructable Tower in Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten. Sea Towers appear in a few campaign scenarios and are available in the Scenario Editor. They can only be placed in shallow and deep water, without changing the placement restrictions using Ctrl+G.
Sea Towers appear in the Shoals random map.
Campaign appearances[]
Sea Towers appear in the following campaign scenarios:
Genghis Khan[]
- Into China: A Sea Tower protects the river at the tail end of the Great Wall.
Prithviraj[]
- The Digvijaya: A Dacoit Sea Tower is located on the river inside the Paramara base.
Bari[]
- The Onrushing Tide: The Norman Navy has two Sea Towers guarding each of their Shipyards.
Battles of the Forgotten[]
- Cyprus: The Nicosia Fleet has multiple Sea Towers guarding its Docks.
- York: There is a Sea Tower in a base belonging to the Northern Irish Kingdoms along the western Irish coast. There is also a Sea Tower in the southwestern Scottish base, overlapping a Dock.
- Lake Poyang: There are several Sea Towers in Admiral Chen's main base, and a single Sea Tower in open waters in the northeast belonging to the Han Navy.
- Dos Pilas: A Calakmul Sea Tower is situated on the river crossing where the initial battle occurs.
Yodit[]
- Path of Exile: The enemy Camp in the Forest is defended by multiple Sea Towers, renamed to Wooden Towers.
- The Right Partner: There is a single Sea Tower by the ports of Aydhab.
- A Fallen Crown: Alodian rebels have a single Sea Tower on the edge of their base.
Le Loi[]
- The Dai Viet Uprising: The Malay pirates have several Sea Towers on their island.
Suryavarman I[]
- A Dangerous Mission: Hostile troops have two Sea Towers renamed to Wooden Towers, protecting a river passage in the northwest and a mountain passage in the southwest.
Gajah Mada[]
- Serving the New King: Kutai, Luwu and Makassar have numerous Sea Towers within all of their bases, protecting the waterways leading to their Docks.
- The Pasunda Bubat Tragedy: Javanese Bandits have several Sea Towers protecting the rivers around Trowulan.
Pachacuti[]
- A New Power Arises: The Cuyos and the Chanca have one and two Sea Towers, respectively, defending the river entrances into their bases.
- The Falcon's Tent: There are several Sea Towers defending the interior of Ancu Hualloc's base. There's also a Sea Tower defending the ports of Abancay.
- Like Father, Like Son: The entrance into Chimu ports is protected by a few Sea Towers.
Tamerlane[]
- Amir of Transoxiana: Toktamysh has two Sea Towers in his initial town. A Sea Tower also protects White Horde's Dock and three Sea Towers protect Western Chagatai Khanate's Castle.
- Gurkhan of Persia: Soltaniyeh has two Sea Towers protecting their docks. A Sea Tower also protects Tabriz's Dock.
- Harbinger of Destruction: The Golden Horde have several Sea Towers in Edigu's base.
Edward Longshanks[]
- Vain Ambition: Sea Towers protect ports of all coastal settlements, including Acre, Limassol, Tripoli and a Mamelukian base.
Grand Dukes[]
- The Hook and Cod Wars: The Hooks have several Sea Towers preventing fishing in the western area of the map.
The Hautevilles[]
- Guiscard Arrives: A couple Sea Towers protect the Docks of Bari.
- Roger in Sicily: A couple Sea Towers protect the port of Palermo.
Algirdas and Kestutis[]
- The Tatar Yoke: Golden Horde's Sea Towers protect two river passages, west of the starting area and west of Qutlugh Beg's camp.
Jadwiga[]
- The Matter of the Crown: Mazovian base is protected by several Sea Towers renamed to "Fortified Outposts".
- The Fruits of Her Labor: Sea Towers protect the two western Prussian villages, and the river passage towards Nicholas von Renys.
Jan Zizka[]
- The Golden City: Vitkov Hill has two Sea Towers protecting it.
- Warrior of God: Royalists have two Sea Towers, by their eastern and western Palisade Walls each.
Devapala[]
- Enlightenment: Several Sea Towers protect Jayapala's forward bases. A couple of Sea Towers also protect Pratihara Docks.
Babur[]
- The Rajputs: Base of the Purbiya mercenaries is protected by Sea Towers. A Sea Tower also protects Portuguese Docks.
Rajendra[]
- The Successor: The southern Chalukyan Fort is protected by Sea Towers.
- Rising Star: A Sea Tower protects the Khmer base. Sea Towers also protect all Bengali Pirates' bases. Several Sea Towers, each renamed to Fortified Outpost, also protect Chalukyas' fishing waters and docks in the west, and their northeastern base.
- Sacred Waters: Some Sea Towers protect the waterways towards Kalinga and Utkala. The outlying Kalinga camps are also protected by Sea Towers. The local bandit camp also contains Sea Towers.
Thoros II[]
- Caught in the Crossfire: Knights Templar have a couple of Sea Towers protecting the coastline.
- Bloody Crestwaves: Byzantine Navy has several Sea Towers protecting its Docks.
Ismail[]
- Alexander Safavi: The Qizilbash have a few Sea Towers protecting the river ford and the coastline of their base.
Tamar[]
- Yury's Revenge: A couple of Sea Towers defend Ivane's camp.
Victors and Vanquished[]
- Charlemagne: A Sea Tower is in the western Minor Factions' base.
- Constantine XI and Fetih: Sea Towers are present on the outskirts of Constantinople.
- Drake: Viceroy's Men have a Sea Tower in their eastern base and another one on an island near a Spanish Settlement in the center.
- Finehair: The Southern Jarls and Western Sea Kings have several Sea Towers on the coastline.
- Karlsefni: The player starts with a Sea Tower. The island of the Skraelings is scattered with Sea Towers.
- Ragnar: The player starts with a Sea Tower near the Dock. The Franks have constructed Sea Towers around the north of their base to protect them from naval attacks.
Trivia[]
- Sea Towers can be found in The Conquerors by extracting certain game files, but could not be found normally in default campaigns and were unavailable in the Scenario Editor.
- As with other Scenario Editor-exclusive towers (except for the Fire Tower), the Sea tower shares its secondary projectiles with the Watch Tower line and the Donjon. As the attack as well as the attack bonuses of this tower's secondary projectiles are thus identical to those of a player's Watch Tower line or Donjon, they benefit from researching Guard Tower, and Keep.
- Despite the official description stating that units can garrison inside for protection, the tower neither has garrison capacity (except for the Teutons), nor does it allow any unit to garrison. So the only cases when the Sea Tower can shoot additional projectiles is by using triggers, or researching Yasama.
- Its icon was updated in update 99311 (omitted from the patch notes).
Gallery[]
A Sea Tower in the Definitive Edition
The previous design of the building in the HD Edition, completed from its The Conquerors version
The hidden Sea Tower in The Conquerors, its graphic being unfinished
Video[]
SEA TOWER vs EVERY UNIQUE UNIT - AoE II- Definitive Edition
