Cannon Tower (WC2 Orc)

For lore about cannon towers, see Cannon tower.

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, the manuals, and/or official bonus maps.

Cannon Tower
Race	Orc
Faction	Horde
Statistics
Hit Points	160
Armor	20
Sight	9
Production
Gold	1000
Lumber	300
Build time	190 seconds
Combat
Basic Damage	50
Range	7

Cannon Towers are Watch Towers upgraded to rain explosive death down upon their foes on land and sea.

Information

• Cannon Towers fire powerful projectiles, which also deal "splash" damage to units adjacent to the point of impact. Note, however, that their shots may overshoot their target, and may also damage friendly units by mistake. Furthermore, they cannot effectively target units adjacent to them, and their shots will only deal minor damage to such units.
• For optimal efficiency, towers should be protected by Walls or cheap buildings like Farms, which will also protect them against Demolition Squads. They are much more effective if multiple towers are built close enough to cover each other.
• Being immobile, they are vulnerable to all units that outrange them, especially Ballistas and Mages. They also lack the power to effectively take on Battleships and are helpless against Gryphons.
• They cannot be controlled directly, and will fire automatically at enemy units, targeting enemies according to a built-in priority list:

1. Catapult/Ballista, Mage/Death Knight, Transport
2. Destroyer, Paladin/Ogre-Mage
3. Battleship/Juggernaught, Knight/Ogre
4. Footman/Grunt, Gnomish Submarine/Giant Turtle
5. Ranger/Berserker
6. Archer/Axethrower, Demolition Squad/Sappers, Skeleton, Scout Tower
7. Peasant/Peon, Attack Peasant/Peon, Oil Tanker
8. Castle/Fortress, Cannon Tower, Guard Tower
9. Keep/Stronghold, Great/Town Hall, Mage Tower/Temple of the Damned
10. Barracks
11. Shipyard
12. Lumber Mill, Oil Refinery
13. Farm, Oil Platform
14. Other buildings

Note: Heroes are counted as their base unit, except Lothar, who is counted as a Paladin, and Alleria, Zuljin, and Dentarg, who are treated as the base version of their unit, rather than the upgraded one (Archer, Axethrower, and Ogre, rather than Ranger, Berzerker, and Ogre-Mage)

• An Blacksmith is needed to upgrade Watch Towers to Cannon Towers.
• Cannon Towers can also be used offensively, by building them near the enemy settlement.

Notes

• Computer players normally don't build Cannon Towers.

See also

• Cannon Tower (WC2 Human)
• Cannon Tower (Warcraft III)