Watch Tower (Warcraft III)

For lore about watch towers, see Watch tower.

Watch Tower
Faction	Orcish Horde
Statistics
Hit points	500
Gold	110
Lumber	80
Build time	60 sec.
Requires	War Mill
Hotkey	W
Combat
Normal attack	16-18 (17 avg)
Can attack	Air, Ground, Structure, Debris, Item, Ward
Range	80
Attack type	Piercing
Cooldown	0.60 sec.
Weapon type	Missile
Armor Type	Heavy
Armor	3
Day Sight	160
Night Sight	80

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and/or official bonus maps.

Watch Towers can be used to guard embattled orcish settlements, and provide static defense against land and air attacks.

Information

The Orc's defensive tower. Watch Towers are extremely cheap and possess an extremely high attack rate and range, the latter being on par with Cannon Towers. Numerous towers can shred even the most strongest of opponents, forcing enemies to use siege weaponry to destroy them.

In Reign of Chaos, Watch Towers start with Fortified armor. In The Frozen Throne, they start with Heavy instead. In order to regain Fortified armor, players must research Reinforced Burrows. This does not affect the armor value in any way.

Upgrades

Spiked Barricades

Surrounds Orc buildings with spikes that damage enemy melee attackers. Deals 4 damage per attack.

Research Cost	Researched At	Upgrade Time	Effect
25 75	War Mill	60 sec.	Damage: 4

Improved Spiked Barricades

Increases the amount of damage inflicted on melee attackers by 6.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time	Effect
50 175	War Mill	Stronghold	75 sec.	Damage: 10

Advanced Spiked Barricades

Further increases the amount of damage inflicted on melee attackers by 6.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time	Effect
75 275	War Mill	Fortress	90 sec.	Damage: 16

Reinforced Defenses

Upgrades Burrows and Watch Towers so that they have Fortified armor.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time	Effect
75 175	War Mill	Stronghold	60 sec.	Armor Type: Fortified

Spiked Barricades

Surrounds Orc buildings with spikes that damage enemy melee attackers. Deals 5 damage per attack plus an additional 20% damage of the attacker's damage.

Research Cost	Researched At	Upgrade Time	Effect
25 75	War Mill	60 sec.	Damage: 5 + 20% of the attacker's damage.

Improved Spiked Barricades

Increases the amount of additional damage inflicted on melee attackers by 30% of the attacker's damage.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time	Effect
50 100	War Mill	Stronghold	75 sec.	Damage: 5 + 50% of the attacker's damage.

Patch changes

• Patch 1.15 (2004-05-10): Build time increased to 60 seconds from 55 seconds.
  
• Patch 1.07 (2003-07-01): Now has Heavy armor instead of Fortified. Reinforced Defenses upgrade introduced to allow Watch Towers to regain Fortified armor.
  
• Patch 1.03 (2002-10-09): Watch Towers now do 16-18 damage, down from 19-22 damage.
  

See also

• Watch Tower (Warcraft II)