How to use this hero
Home faction: Stronghold
Stronghold pressure through melee attacks
Use Crag Hack for an army able to exploit Advanced Offence and its specialty safely. Extra melee damage matters when a stack reaches the target and survives the necessary part of the exchange.
What the profile establishes
Specialty · Offence
Specializes in Offence. The relevant skill is required; its starting rank is listed in this profile. Compare developing this skill with the needs of your current army and map.
Listed starting skills
- Advanced Offence
Suggested army and further development
The following is our recommendation. Creatures, spells and items must actually be acquired; this does not establish current inventory.
Build further choices around the listed skills and the needs of the current army. Choose equipment for the actual bottleneck: survival, attack effectiveness, mana or movement.
Skills I would build around: Advanced Offence. Match further choices to available ranks and the current army.
Creatures I would consider
Equipment I would compare
Compare effect, slot and acquisition conditions on the item card. A suggestion does not establish that the hero starts with it.
Spells and suitable equipment
The reference profile assigns no starting spell. A scenario can change the starting state.
HasteTactical option · acquisition depends on the map
SlowTactical option · acquisition depends on the map
Equipment suggestions for the plan (4)
Editorial suggestions based on sourced magic or an army plan. These are not starting inventory or guaranteed finds. Check acquisition, slot and rules on the item card.
Charm of ManaSuggestionWhile equipped the item provides: Daily mana recovery: +1 mana / day.
For a longer spellcasting expedition. Capacity and daily recovery are separate effects; compare current reserves with the next battle.
Breastplate of Petrified WoodSuggestionWhile equipped the item provides: Spell Power: +1.
For spells whose damage or duration actually uses magical power. Check the individual spell formula.
Centaur’s AxeSuggestionWhile equipped the item provides: Attack: +2.
An option for this tactical plan. Compare the item’s actual effect with the next objective, available equipment slots and the cost of more troops.
Necklace of SwiftnessSuggestionWhile equipped the item provides: Battle Speed: +1.
For battle reach and order, rather than the same amount of map movement.
Creatures connected to this hero
Wolf Raider- Example in a tactical plan
Thunderbird- Example in a tactical plan
Ancient Behemoth- Example in a tactical plan
Orc Chieftain- Example in a tactical plan
A specialty target, conversion and tactical example are different relationships. Check conversion costs and compare individual upgrade forms on creature cards. A tactical example is not a confirmed starting army.
Detailed game plan · Crag Hack: Offence and completed melee attacks
The following is our tactical analysis of the sourced profile. Choices depend on the actual map, learned spells and army; linked cards provide rules and references.
Distinguish Offence from shooting
The reference starts with Advanced Offence. This improves melee damage; Orc shooting has its own conditions and potentially different development. Identify which actual stacks should carry the attack, then choose construction by available numbers and the next objective.
Wolf Raiders must complete the second strike
Check reach, retaliation and further enemy attacks before committing Wolf Raiders. The second strike uses survivors from the first exchange. Compare a direct strike with first weakening the target or drawing ordinary retaliation when the situation and enemy abilities permit.
Acquire acceleration for a concrete reach requirement
Haste and Slow are acquisition options here rather than confirmed Crag Hack starting spells. Casting requires an actual spellbook, mana and applicable requirements. With usable support, first calculate which stack gains a newly reachable target and who acts afterward.
Choose map movement and battle Speed separately
Necklace of Swiftness improves battle Speed, while Boots of Speed would address map travel. Those benefits are not interchangeable. Centaur’s Axe adds Attack; evaluate its combination with Offence against actual target Defense rather than adding unlike percentages.
Linked profiles and rules
Spells: Haste (acquire on the map / see specialty) · Slow (acquire on the map / see specialty)
Creatures for this plan
Linked commanders and town construction (Czech)
Conditional equipment
- Centaur’s Axe
- Necklace of Swiftness
For battle reach and order, rather than the same amount of map movement.