| Guard Tower (Roman) | |||||||||
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| Roman Utility Building | |||||||||
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| Age available |  Bronze Age | ||||||||
| Build time | 50s | ||||||||
| Hit points | 1200 (1250) | ||||||||
| Damage | 25 (28) | ||||||||
| Sight range | 32 (36) | ||||||||
| Range | 30 (28) | ||||||||
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| Armor vs. ranged | 0.8 | ||||||||
| Bonus vs. ships | 4.0 | ||||||||
The Guard Tower is a Roman Utility Building in Age of Empires Online.
PvP Values which are different are put in brackets ().
Gameplay[]
- The Guard Tower it is an offensive building that provides Line of Sight and fires arrows at enemy units.
- The Guard Tower researches upgrades that boost their offensive power and maximum health.
- It can be built by any Villager (Roman) and Engineer.
Technologies[]
The followings technologies are related to the Guard Tower, but they need to be unlocked from your Capital City.
Silver Age[]
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| Fortified Tower |
Golden Age[]
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| Stronghold Tower |
Equipment Slots[]
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| Bow | Arrows | Reinforced Construction | Construction Addition |
Development[]
The roman Guard Tower was first shown through the Project Celeste forum post Weekly Blog #6: Auxilia Camp, Balearic Slinger, Guard Tower on June 29th, 2019.
Bronze and Silver Age Roman Guard Towers 3D Models
- As per popular demand, here are the Age II and Age III versions of the Roman Guard Tower. We will be building four separate towers, though we expect that the Romans will only have upgrades to build the first three. The fourth tower will be available for the AI to use in quests, though. We also expect it to make an appearance in the City of Rome region.
During the July 6th, 2019 forum post Weekly Blog #7: Dock, Fishing Boat, Roman Wood the development team revealed another model for the Age II Guard Tower.
Updated Age II Guard Tower with the new wood textures and changes to the dimensions.
- A few days ago when we were fussing with the final Fishing Boat design to prepare for today’s post, we realized that its wood color was totally different than the color of the wood in some siege units [...] Upon closer inspection, we realized that each of the Original 6 civs have their own unique color and type of wood that tends to appear across the board in its Ships, Siege Units, and Buildings. But our Romans had all sorts of different colored wood everywhere.
Stronghold and Keep tower revealed.
The Stronghold and Keep towers ingame model were first revealed in Weekly Blog #24: Clinicus, Stronghold Tower (Age IV), Keep Tower forum post on December 7th, 2019. The Keep tower would not available regularly but only after a Roman specific advisor is selected.
Roman Guard Tower Progression.
- As you can see, the Norse and Babylonian civilizations do not even have a model for this Guard Tower tier, but that didn't stop us from making one for the Romans! (and potentially, for Norse and Babylonians as well, at some point). So this version of the Guard Tower will not be available to players in normal circumstances, for the sake of keeping consistency with the original game and to avoid having 2 upgrades for the same building in the same age. However, we intend to make it available in PvE through the use of a Roman-specific Advisor card. You can also expect the AI to have some in quests. And, of course, you will be able to play around with it in the editor and in offline mode.