Both forms attack without retaliation. Vampire Lords additionally restore their stack through Life Drain against eligible living creatures.
Watch for: Base Vampires lack Life Drain. Undead and non-living targets do not provide the same recovery as living armies.
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.
Blocks retaliation: The victim cannot make an ordinary retaliation against this creature’s strike. Other special reactions follow their own rules.
Life Drain: Vampire Lords recover own health from all damage dealt to eligible living victims, including resurrection of casualties.
Example for 10 creatures: 50–80 base damage for one ordinary hit before hero, defense, spell and ability modifiers. Recalculate surviving creatures before a subsequent hit.
This compares recruitment prices and base parameters, rather than final damage or an automatic price for a particular map upgrade.
Attack
10
Defense
10
Damage
5–8
Health
40
Speed
9
Shots
0
Base weekly growth
4
AI value
783
Occupied hexes
1
Cost per creature: 500 gold
Abilities and limitations
Undead
The Undead type uses separate immunity, morale, healing and life-drain rules. Distinguish Animate Dead from Resurrection.
Flying
Movement can cross obstacles. Devils and Arch Devils express this trait through teleportation; speed still determines reach.
Blocks retaliation
The victim cannot make an ordinary retaliation against this creature’s strike. Other special reactions follow their own rules.
Life Drain
Vampire Lords recover own health from all damage dealt to eligible living victims, including resurrection of casualties.
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.
Vampire Lord · reference values before bonuses
Creatures
Total cost
Base health
1
500 gold
40
5
2,500 gold
200
10
5,000 gold
400
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.
