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Heroes III · CREATURE PROFILE

Lich in Heroes III: stats, cost and abilities

Lich in Heroes III: Ranged stack requiring usable line of sight. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 30 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Ranged stack requiring usable line of sight

Aim Death Cloud by surrounding living units.

Watch for: A friendly living ally can stand beside the target.

Exact dwelling, growth and items →
Lich — creature appearance in Heroes 3
Source · Game artwork

Necropolis · Tier 5

Lich

Base form

How to use this creature in practice

Ranged stack requiring usable line of sight

Aim Death Cloud by surrounding living units. Assess friendly undead screens and the main target under the exact area rules.

Watch for: A friendly living ally can stand beside the target. Undead status of a surrounding stack and the main-target hit use different conditions.

Timing, specific abilities and the follow-up plan

Speed 6 affects reach and order. Before Wait compare who still acts this round and who opens the next; delaying does not create a free extra attack.

  • Area shooting effect: The death cloud hits its main target and surrounding living creatures. Allied living stacks beside the victim can be endangered.

Example for 10 creatures: 110–130 base damage for one ordinary hit before hero, defense, spell and ability modifiers. Recalculate surviving creatures before a subsequent hit.

What changes between base and upgraded forms
Lich / Power Lich
FormAttack / DefenseDamageHPSpeedCost each
Lich13 / 1011–13306550 gold
Power Lich13 / 1011–15407600 gold

Different effects on the other profile:

  • Shooter: Carries 24 shots. Ordinary shooting uses distance and melee penalties unless another trait explicitly removes one.

This compares recruitment prices and base parameters, rather than final damage or an automatic price for a particular map upgrade.

Attack
13
Defense
10
Damage
11–13
Health
30
Speed
6
Shots
12
Base weekly growth
3
AI value
848
Occupied hexes
1

Cost per creature: 550 gold

Abilities and limitations

  • Undead

    The Undead type uses separate immunity, morale, healing and life-drain rules. Distinguish Animate Dead from Resurrection.

  • Shooter

    Carries 12 shots. Ordinary shooting uses distance and melee penalties unless another trait explicitly removes one.

  • Area shooting effect

    The death cloud hits its main target and surrounding living creatures. Allied living stacks beside the victim can be endangered.

Heroes connected to this creature

Sourced specialty target (1)

The reference profile names this creature as a specialty target. Compare scaling details and individual forms on the hero profile.

Reference ↗ · Ability reference configuration ↗

Where to obtain and develop this creature

The building unlocks this form. Availability and hiring are separate.

Growth and construction prerequisites (5)

Growth support is not another recruitment site. A prerequisite may unlock one of the recruitment forms.

Items with a specific creature relationship (3)

Read the exact item effect; the relationship may concern summoning or another function rather than a blanket buff to every form.

Reference stack cost and health

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.

Lich · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 550 gold
30
5
  • 2,750 gold
150
10
  • 5,500 gold
300

Reading this profile correctly

This profile uses Complete/SoD and the cited VCMI reference. HotA, WoG and other mod changes are not added. Body footprint and attack reach are separate properties.

Base growth excludes Citadel, Castle, external dwellings and other bonuses. AI value supports army generation and evaluation; it is neither a price nor experience. Ranged and melee penalties, immunity, resistance chance and spell-damage reduction are distinct effects. Neutral dragons can have higher editor levels than some internal rules use. Campaign scripts can alter ordinary recruitment.

Numerical reference source ↗

Original roster scope

141 Heroes III Complete / The Shadow of Death creatures: 126 town forms across nine factions and 15 neutrals. The Heroes 3 Wiki stat table is pinned to revision 194544; HotA branches and balance changes are removed. Abilities additionally identify the pinned VCMI reference; its internal identifiers are not blindly used as game names. War machines, siege towers and random editor placeholders are outside this creature count. Growth is the base weekly figure; costs are per creature and stats exclude hero, town and spell bonuses.