Camera Tower Side: Both Hit Points: 150 Cost: 200 Sight Range: 16 Ground Weapon: None Anti-Air Weapon: None Range: N/A Damage: N/A Requirements: Headquarters 2 Upgrades To: N/A

This small and cheap building provides greater visibility than any other unit in the game, although it suffers from the disadvantage of being immobile.

Reconnaissance

Camera Towers have no function other than to provide sight range. They have a greater sight range (both horizontally and vertically) than any other unit in the game. As such, it can even be helpful to post them around the edges of your base to give you better visibility of incoming attacks. This is especially useful for slopes and cliffs which can impede the sight of your other units and structures.

Camera Towers also make great spotters for artillery. For example, they can spot a Neutron Accelerator or an Air Defense Site outside the range of the towers themselves, allowing your artillery to pick them off safely in situations where a unit spotter might be killed.

The Camera Tower is one of the few structures in the game that does not consume the Construction Rig when built. Also, because of their quick build time, you can generally rely on just one Rig to put up a bunch of them.

Although they are small and cheap, Camera Towers do require power, so before putting up a bunch of them, check that you have enough power supplies to support them. Alternately, you could try powering them down as soon as they are built. They have slightly less sight range when powered down, but what they do provide might still be sufficient for your needs.

Remember that Camera Towers can be repaired like most other structures. Although they are not very durable, repairing them can at times allow them to stand up to an assault for just a little bit longer.