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
Read Speed 2 under Heroes II rules. Map the enemy’s next action before approaching; skipping a turn is not Heroes III’s Wait.
Occupies two hexes; allow for its footprint when blocking or passing.
Attacks all adjacent enemy stacks. Consider the whole contact line when positioning.
Attack
8
Defense
9
Damage
6–12
Health
75
Speed
2
Shots
0
Base weekly growth
2
Cost per creature: 800 gold
Abilities and limitations
Occupies two hexes; allow for its footprint when blocking or passing.
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
Numbers and abilities use the stated pinned fheroes2 revision. Rules do not automatically match Heroes III or every historical DOS version.
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.
66 actual Heroes II creatures including upgrades and neutrals. Values and abilities follow the pinned fheroes2 revision; random editor placeholders are excluded. Prices are per creature, growth is the base weekly value, and combat stats exclude hero, artifact and spell bonuses.
