Combine Watchtower



The Combine Watchtower is used in City 17, The Coast, and other areas to provide Civil Protection and Combine Overwatch units with a better view of the area below.

Watchtowers are found almost everywhere around City 17 and near Combine outposts around the coast.

Tactics
These structures give Combine units a better view of an area, so cover near one of these towers is restricted. An easy way of killing any units within these towers are to use the RPG or to simply shoot them, as the tower provides next to no cover.

Appearances
The first appearance of the Combine Watchtower is in Chapter 1 Point Insertion (and also in Anticitizen One) after Barney sends Gordon to Kleiner's Lab. As Gordon goes through by the plaza building to its entrance and above the middle Combine Fortification you will see a Watchtower over looking the trainstation plaza. The second time is in Highway 17 at the Combine captured Bridgepoint which used to be a Resistance base. You will see that once you the first and second Watchtowers are not in use but once you go to deactivate a massive Combine Fortification the second Watchtower is strangely has an Overwatch solider in occupation of the Watchtower. The third appearance is in Sandtraps after the zombie tunnel will find a Combine checkpoint where an Overwatch solider has already spotted Gordon. The forth appearance is in Anticitizen One where Alyx, Gordon and a handful of Resistance fighters raid a Combine Generator Complex and above a Watchtower holding a Civil Protection will spot the Resistance strike team and alert the ground level CPs and the Overwatch soldiers. the fifth appearance of the watchtower is in Episode 0ne the last chapter Exit 17 where Alyx and Gordon observe the Citadel's destruction as they pass a Combine Wall you will see a Watchtower.