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This article is about the building in Age of Mythology. For the similar building in Age of Empires, see Sentry Tower (Age of Empires).

Provides line of sight around your town and lets units garrison inside. Upgrade them to let them fire on enemies.
—In-game description

The Sentry Tower is a tower in Age of Mythology that can be built starting in the Classical Age. It plays a similar role to the other towers featured in the series. However, just like the Outpost in the Age of Empires II, these towers do not attack enemy units within range. They are used as lookouts, but can be upgraded to the Watch Tower. It can garrison up to 10 workers, infantry, archers, and hero units.

In standard matches, the player starts with four Sentry Towers around their Town Center even in the Archaic Age, even though further ones can be constructed Classical Age onward only.

Until update 18.33318, for the Egyptians, the upgrade was automatic. Before it, the Egyptians could not construct a Sentry Tower.

Upgrade[]

Sentry Towers can be upgraded to Watch Towers in the Classical Age. The upgrade costs 200 wood, 100 gold and takes 20 seconds to research for all civilizations except for the Egyptians who get the upgrade for 100 gold. The upgrade provides the towers with an attack. Researching Watch Tower also enables the technologies Boiling Oil and Crenellations.

Further statistics[]

Civilization bonuses[]

God bonuses[]

  • Poseidon: Spawns 1 Militia when destroyed
  • Hades: None
  • Freyr: Upgrading to Watch Tower costs 75 wood, 25 gold but takes 38 seconds to research
  • Gaia: Regenerates 1 hit point per second when on Lush
  • Fuxi: +300% research speed on Favored Land (Immortal Pillars)
  • Nüwa: Foundations placed on Favored Land automatically construct. +1 Favored Land range. Creator's Auspice improves hit points in tiers as the player generates favor.
  • Fu Xi: -20% wood cost (Tale of the Dragon)

General technologies[]

Myth technologies[]

Relics[]

Changelog[]

Age of Mythology[]

  • The Sentry Tower costs 200 wood, has a base build time of 50 seconds, and a build limit of 20.
  • It has 550 hit points, ​30% Hack armorhack / ​85% pierce resistance, and can garrison 5 units. Its base attack defined internally is ​4 Pierce Attack pierce.

Retold[]

  • Sentry Towers cost 150 wood, have 750 hit points, and can garrison 10 units.
  • With update 17.64528, the Sentry Tower's build limit is 30. Its base attack defined internally is ​5 Pierce Attack pierce.

Immortal Pillars[]

  • With update 18.33318, the Sentry Tower has a base build time of 60 seconds, 600 hit points, and ​50% Hack armorhack / ​90% pierce resistance. Its base attack defined internally is ​8 Pierce Attack pierce.

In-game description[]

Towers start out as Sentry Towers. They have a significant line of sight, but cannot fire upon enemies. With the Watch Tower improvement, Towers gain the ability to fire arrows. (Egyptians receive this improvement automatically.) The Guard Tower improvement further increases the range and strength of Tower attacks. The final Tower improvement, Ballista Towers, is available only to the Egyptians.

Tower ranged attacks cannot attack units directly beneath them. Research Boiling Oil to attack units beneath Towers, Fortresses, Hill Forts and Migdol Strongholds. Ranged attacks have difficulty hitting fast-moving targets, such as cavalry. Research Crenellations to improve the chance to hit such units.
—In-game help section

Trivia[]

  • Originally, the Sentry Tower and Watch Tower were two separate buildings, both being able to be built by all civilizations, and functioned identically to the Outpost from Age of Empires II, albeit with the ability to research building Line of Sight technologies.
    • The shared Sentry Tower was merged with the Watch Tower-line, whilst the dedicated scout tower became the Obelisk.

Gallery[]

Buildings in Age of Mythology
Generic
Economic Town Center · Village Center · House · Farm · Armory · Market
Military Dock · Temple
Walls and gates Wooden Wall · Wooden Gate · Stone Wall · Stone Gate · Fortified Wall · Fortified Gate
Tower Sentry Tower · Watch Tower · Guard Tower
Special Wonder · Titan Gate
Unique
Greeks Granary · Storehouse · Military Academy · Archery Range · Stable · Fortress
Egyptians Granary · Lumber Camp · Mining Camp · Monument · Obelisk · Barracks · Siege Works · Migdol Stronghold · Citadel Wall · Citadel Gate · Ballista Tower · Lighthouse
Norse Longhouse · Dwarven Armory · Great Hall · Ox Cart · Hill Fort
Atlanteans Manor · Economic Guild · Sky Passage · Military Barracks · Counter Barracks · Bronze Wall · Bronze Gate · Iron Wall · Iron Gate · Palace · Orichalcum Wall · Orichalcum Gate · Mirror Tower
Chinese
(Immortal Pillars)
Silo · Imperial Academy · Machine Workshop · Military Camp · Baolei · Crossbow Tower · Great Wall · Great Wall Gate
Chinese
(Tale of the Dragon)
Storage Pit · Garden · Earthen Wall · Earthen Gate · War Academy · Stable · Castle · Great Wall · Great Gate
Non-constructable (non-campaign exclusive buildings)
God power buildings Asgardian Hill Fort · Citadel Center · Earth Wall · Healing Spring · Hesperides Tree · Lure · Peach Blossom Spring · Plenty Vault · Sentinel · Shennong's Farm · Tartarian Gate · Underworld Passage
Random map Great Wall · Qinghai Lake Shrine · Settlement · Trading Post
Scenario Editor Temple (Chinese SPC)
Cut/Removed
Bandit Migdol · Charioteria