Use flight to screen shooters or attack an important reachable target. Read retaliation capacity for the actual form: Royal Griffins support repeated ordinary retaliations.
Watch for: Unlimited retaliations are not unlimited health. No-Retaliation attackers and enemy shooting bypass that defensive advantage.
Timing, specific abilities and the follow-up plan
Speed 9 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.
Unlimited retaliations: Has no numerical round limit on ordinary retaliations. Attacks that prevent retaliation remain a separate exception.
Example for 10 creatures: 30–60 base damage for one ordinary hit before hero, defense, spell and ability modifiers. Recalculate surviving creatures before a subsequent hit.
Extra retaliations: Adds 1 retaliation to the normal one, for 2 per round. This does not override attacks that prevent retaliation.
This compares recruitment prices and base parameters, rather than final damage or an automatic price for a particular map upgrade.
Attack
9
Defense
9
Damage
3–6
Health
25
Speed
9
Shots
0
Base weekly growth
7
AI value
448
Occupied hexes
2
Cost per creature: 240 gold
Abilities and limitations
Flying
Movement can cross obstacles. Devils and Arch Devils express this trait through teleportation; speed still determines reach.
Unlimited retaliations
Has no numerical round limit on ordinary retaliations. Attacks that prevent retaliation remain a separate exception.
Heroes connected to this creature
Normal upgrade of the specialty line (1)
The normal upgrade belongs to the same specialty line in the pinned VCMI reference. Gelu’s and Dracon’s special conversions are separate from its normal upgrades.
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.
Royal Griffin · reference values before bonuses
Creatures
Total cost
Base health
1
240 gold
25
5
1,200 gold
125
10
2,400 gold
250
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.
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.
