How to destroy watchtowers?

**zwobot** · 03-29-2009, 08:38

Hello everyone and welcome to my first post/question on these boards,
ever since I've first played RTW I wondered if it is possible to destroy watchtowers on the campaign map?
Right now in my M2TW (Gold edition, completely unmodded) campaign with Spain I have the problem that I placed a watchtower close to a river crossing on my border where I now want to build a fortification but I can't because the campaign map does not allow watchtowers/fortifications too close to each other (about 2 fields or so).

So is there a way to get rid of watchtowers already built on the campaign map?

**Empirate** · 03-29-2009, 10:15

Watchtowers are permanent, there's no way to remove them. "Watch" where you place them...

**zwobot** · 03-29-2009, 11:22

Dammit, well thanks for the answer Empirate. Isn't there even a "dirty" way of removing a watchtower like editing some game file? Mh even if there would I think it will be very annoying...

**gollum** · 03-29-2009, 13:43

Hello zwobot,
Why a problem? Armies can walk above them right?

**BharatRakshak** · 03-29-2009, 15:47

How do you even build a watchtower, I always wondered. I have taken generals to the location, but there is never an option for it. Do I need to have a significant amount of troops riding alongside the general to construct the watchtower?

**FactionHeir** · 03-29-2009, 16:28

Just 200 florins and sufficient space to build one and no random natural disasters that bug the region.

**_Tristan_** · 03-30-2009, 16:33

And of course being inside your own borders...

**Old Geezer** · 04-01-2009, 14:09

And you can't build them adjacent to a town, castle, another tower or an enemy force IIRC unless I have the latter confused with forts. I dont' think that you can build them on trade resources either and I seem to have had some troubles at times building them in certain mountainous regions in the east around Yerevan.