# Watchtowers

**Entity Type:** Skill

**German Name:** Wachtuerme

## Properties

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Category | Civic |
| Type | Discovery |
| Knowledge Cost | 8,000 |

## Description

Watchtowers is a Civic category skill that unlocks the Watchtowers amenity building. When constructed, Watchtowers increase Happiness for nearby buildings.

Civic skills provide many upgrades for city administration, ranging from powerful attribute area effects to improvements for Medicis, Vigiles, and Custodias. Civic skills greatly facilitate the management of your cities.

As a Discovery type skill, it makes up the majority of skills in the Anno 117 skill tree. To research it, you must first reach it through a research path. Some discoveries require additional conditions to unlock, such as hosting a specific population type in Albion.

## Effects

| Effect Type | Target | Value |
|-------------|--------|-------|
| Unlocks Amenity | Watchtowers | - |
| Happiness | Nearby buildings | Increased |

## Unlock Requirements

- **Knowledge Required:** 8,000
- **Research Path:** Must be reached through the Civic skill tree

## Related Skills

Other Civic category skills include:
- Aleatoria
- Alliance Treaties
- Asclepian Codices
- Cerere et Baccho
- Cognoscentic Research
- Cohabitive Collaboration
- Concordance Research
- Conservation Ordinance
- Cult of Cernunnos
- Cult of Epona
- Cult of Mercury-Lugus
- Cult of Minerva
- Day Watch
- Devotional Research
- Empyrean Research
- Epona's Hoofbeat
- Fabulae Togatae
- Fenixwrights
- Funeral Games of Tailteann
- Gubernatorial Research
- Hazard Fighters
- Headhunting
- Hippocratic Corps
- Hospitality
- Imperial Parades
- Large Loans
- Latrines
- Legally Enshrined
- Lingua Romana
- Marble Roads
- Market Forces
- Metropolitan Research
- Municipal Research
- Night Watch
- Officialdom
- Pax Amicitia
- Portitores
- Praetorian Pumps
- Public Funding
- Quartermastery
- Quinquiremes
- Recruitment Drive
- Right to Repair
- Sacral Spaces
- Sanitary Measures
- Seasoned to Taste
- Shrine Staffing
- Snuffing Sedition
- Solutio Ad Hominem
- The Art of Gift-Giving
- Trireme
- Via Tributum
- Villa Novation
- Villa Visitation
- Voluntary Vigilance
- Warmer Hospitality
- Well

## Source

- [anno.land - Watchtowers](https://anno.land/en/anno-117-skills/wachtuerme/)
