Hydra should take reachable melee exchanges or hold an approach to more valuable units. Before advancing, identify its next target and enemies able to attack it afterward.
Watch for: Limiting retaliation during your attack does not cancel the enemy’s next turn. Check the specific trait, area responses and ending position.
Timing, specific abilities and the follow-up plan
The Speed category “Slow” belongs to Heroes I. Check order and reach before acting; Skip is not the later Wait command. Plan hero spells from individual cast supplies.
Attacks all adjacent enemy stacks. Consider the whole contact line when positioning.
Its melee attack prevents enemy retaliation.
Attack
8
Defense
9
Damage
6–12
Health
75
Speed
Slow
Shots
0
Base weekly growth
2
Cost per creature: 800 gold
Abilities and limitations
Attacks all adjacent enemy stacks. Consider the whole contact line when positioning.
These values multiply every resource in the undiscounted reference price and full base health. Hero, equipment, spell, price and growth modifiers are excluded. This is neither final damage or battle survival nor a guarantee that the listed number is available to recruit.
Hydra · reference values before bonuses
Creatures
Total cost
Base health
1
800 gold
75
5
4,000 gold
375
10
8,000 gold
750
Reading this profile correctly
Speed remains in the original game’s named categories. The hero uses individual spell supplies based on Knowledge; the commander casts at a valid opportunity during a friendly troop action.
Resource costs are part of recruitment. For an entire stack, multiply every component, not just gold. Base growth excludes additional town, map and hero bonuses. Zero shots means no regular ranged attack; the creature can still have spells or other active abilities.
28 PC Heroes I creatures from the original manual, pages 80–88. Base combat stats without hero or spell bonuses, base weekly growth and per-creature costs. Speed retains Slow / Medium / Fast categories. Abilities follow the manual’s listed rules. Neutral growth is not stated, and Ghost cannot be recruited normally.
