Guard Tower (WC2 Human)

For lore about guard towers, see Guard 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.

Guard Tower
Race	Human
Faction	Alliance
Statistics
Hit Points	130
Armor	20
Sight	9
Production
Gold	500
Lumber	150
Build time	140 seconds
Combat
Basic Damage	4
Piercing Damage	12
Range	6

Guard Towers are Scout Towers outfitted with deadly bolts that can pierce targets on land, sea and air.

Information

• Guard Towers provide a reliable defense for your settlement. They fire moderately powerful projectiles that can hit enemy land, sea and air units.
• They are less durable than Cannon Towers and their projectiles do less damage and lack "splash" damage. However, they always hit their targets and can hit enemy fliers, and never damage your own units by mistake.
• For optimal efficiency, towers should be protected by Walls or cheap buildings like Farms, which will also protect them against Sappers. 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 Catapults and Death Knights. They also lack the power to effectively take on Juggernaughts.
• 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. Gryphon/Dragon, Destroyer, Paladin/Ogre-Mage
3. Battleship/Juggernaught, Knight/Ogre, Daemon
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, Flying Machine/Zeppelin
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
15. Eye of Kilrogg

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 Elven Lumber Mill is needed to upgrade Scout Towers to Guard Towers.
• Guard Towers can also be used offensively, by building them near the enemy settlement.

See also

• Guard Tower (WC2 Orc)
• Guard Tower (Warcraft III)