Creatures – HoMM: Olden Era Begginer’s Guide #6
Your armies can include a wide variety of Creatures. Hovering over any Creature will bring up a set of Stats, Passive Traits, and Active Abilities.
Creature stats and abilities
Your armies can include a wide variety of Creatures. Double-clicking on any Creature will bring up a set of Stats, Passive Traits, and Active Abilities.
1. Stats from left to right:
- Health – The overall health of each Creature in the stack.
- Attack – Contributes to the total Damage applied when attacking at (1 + 5% x Attack value).
- Defense – Reduces the total Damage applied when attacked at (1 + 5% x Defense value).
- Damage – the base Damage of a single unit in a stack.
- Morale – The chance to either attack again with positive Morale, or lose their turn entirely with negative Morale.
- Luck – The chance to either land a Lucky (enhanced) or Unlucky (weakened) Strike.
- Initiative – The turn order of the Creature. A higher Initiative will put them earlier in the turn order, while a lower Initiative will put them later in the turn order.
- Speed – The maximum number of tiles that a Creature can move during their turn.
2. Passive Traits – These traits provide constant effects on the battlefield, such as requirements for attack, various counters to specific attacks, or buffs when certain spells are used on them. These traits are noted by their gold and blue icons.
3. Active Abilities – Many Creatures have Active Abilities, special active skills that can deal damage, strengthen friendly Creatures, weaken enemy Creatures, and more. These abilities are noted by their colorful icons. We will look into Active Abilities in the Combat section of this guide.
Recruiting Creatures
Creatures can be recruited in your Cities through the Recruit Creatures tab in your Cities, or through certain Hero Skills that allow you recruit Neutral Squads. When recruiting in a City, you may only recruit Creatures if you have the prerequisite buildings to access them.
Creatures become available for recruitment at your Cities and Creature Dwellings every 7 turns (at the start of a new week), with its numbers depending on several factors such as Hero Skills, the number of Creature Dwellings under your control, and other Map Objects.
Upgrading Creatures
Upgraded Buildings allow you to enhance your Creatures. Note that only Creatures whose improved Buildings are present in that particular city can be upgraded there.
HoMM: Olden Era Begginer’s Guides:
- #1 – Global Map
- #2 – Movement & Exploration
- #3 – Cities & Faction Laws
- #4 – Magic
- #5 – Heroes
- #6 – Creatures
- #7 – Battle
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