Maybe. Not sure though. The Scout tower will immediately begin to decay. Is that the behavior you want? At any rate, for 3.5x the amount of resources (200 for Scout tower vs. 900 for Civ Centre) you can grab 30x the amount of territory (3,215m2 for the Scout Tower vs. 102,000m2 for Civ Centres). Peeps need to build those CCs, mein.