The Tower of Flies

The Tower of Flies
Building information
Introduced in	The Age of Kings
Type	Tower
Statistics
Size	1×1 tiles
Hit points	1,900
Garrison	5
Attack	8 pierce
Attack bonuses	+12 vs Ship +12 vs Fishing Ship +8 vs Building +1 vs Camel
Rate of Fire	3.05
Range	6
Minimum range	1
Accuracy	100%
Projectile speed	7
Melee armor	4
Pierce armor	7
Armor classes	Building Stone defense
Line of Sight	7

The Tower of Flies is an unconstructable tower in Age of Empires II. Like heroes, The Tower of Flies automatically regenerates hit points and cannot be converted.

The Tower of Flies is only available in the Scenario Editor (under the Other tab).

Campaign appearances

Saladin

• The Lion and the Demon: One Tower of Flies defends the Docks of Acre from crusader attacks. It's 'big brother', The Accursed Tower, can also be found in Acre, defending the walls in the north.

El Cid

• Reconquista: At the African shore, Yusuf controls the 'Tower of Despair', which is a renamed Tower of Flies. The Accursed Tower is also featured, renamed 'Tower of Desolation'.

Trivia

• The Tower of Flies was a real Sea Tower, first built by the Phoenicians and greatly expanded by the Crusaders, that once guarded the harbor of Acre. It was fit with a Boom Chain to regulate shipping and acted at times as a lighthouse and prison.
• The design of The Tower of Flies and its cousin, The Accursed Tower, uses the old Western European Guard Tower sprites.
• The Accursed Tower and The Tower of Flies are most likely revisits of the Mirror Tower, from The Rise of Rome, which was in development around the time The Age of Kings was also in development.
• The Tower of Flies has a hidden construction cost of 150 stone which is only relevant to repairing as it cannot be constructed.

Gallery

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The Tower of Despair as it appears in Reconquista

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