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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[]
Atlanteans: Citizens construct Sentry Towers 50% faster.- Egyptians: Watch Tower upgrade doesn't cost any wood.
- Norse: -10% cost and hit points
- Chinese: Sentry Towers spread Favored Land in a 12 tile radius. Towers are built by a Peasant 15% slower and by a Kuafu 200% faster. The Sentry Tower build limit is shared with towers for Military Camps and Machine Workshops.
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[]
- Masons: +20% hit points
- Architects: +30% hit points
- Signal Fires ➞ Carrier Pigeons: +6 Line of Sight
Myth technologies[]
- Divine Blood (Aphrodite): +15% construction speed
- Oracle (Apollo): +5 Line of Sight
- Safeguard (Heimdall): +25% hit points, -50% gold cost
- Rigsthula (Heimdall): +20% work rate (since Retold)
- Advanced Defenses (Houtu): +2 Line of Sight, can be instantly transformed from wall corners
- Rammed Earth (He Bo): +10% hit points and hack armor (before Retold)
- Titan Shield (Atlas): -15% hack vulnerability and -15% crush vulnerability (before Retold)
- Athenian Wall (Hera): +20% hit points (before Retold)
Relics[]
- Blanket of Empress Zoe: -15% crush vulnerability.
- Five Colored Stone of Nüwa: -50% repairing cost.
- Head of Orpheus: +8 Line of Sight.
- Nose of the Sphinx: +15% hit points.
- Texts of Imhotep: -10% construction time.
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 / 85% pierce resistance, and can garrison 5 units. Its base attack defined internally is 4 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.
Immortal Pillars[]
- With update 18.33318, the Sentry Tower has a base build time of 60 seconds, 600 hit points, and 50% hack / 90% pierce resistance. Its base attack defined internally is 8 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. |
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| —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.
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