Quick guide: where it fits
Mobile flying screen
Use flight to occupy an approach or threaten an exposed target.
Watch for: Insubstantial here is not a percentage miss chance.
Exact dwelling, growth and items →How to use this creature in practice
Mobile flying screen
Use flight to occupy an approach or threaten an exposed target. Estimate survival with the listed innate defense.
Watch for: Insubstantial here is not a percentage miss chance. Do not import that behavior from another game.
- Melee attack
- 16
- Ranged attack
- —
- Melee defense
- 32
- Ranged defense
- 32
- Damage
- 6–10
- Health
- 40
- Action speed
- 7
- Combat movement
- 13⅓
- Adventure movement
- 29
- Shots
- 0
- Mana
- 0
- Weekly growth
- 6
- Experience per creature
- 74
Cost per creature: 350 gold
Edition: Heroes IV
Alignment: Nature
Creature Portal shares a weekly budget of 700 experience points across all its creature options. Allocating that budget to this creature gives a reference equivalent of 9.46 per week, compared with ordinary growth of 6. Fractions describe a rate; fractions of a creature cannot be recruited.
Creature Portal budget reference ↗
Abilities and limitations
Insubstantial
Increases innate defense. In Heroes IV this is not the chance for a normal attack to miss found in other games; use the listed defense ratings.
Flying
Crosses obstacles, units and walls during combat movement. It still needs a free, reachable landing position.
Elemental
Unaffected by ordinary mind spells and healing or resurrection intended for living beings. Check that support magic accepts elementals as targets.
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Where to obtain and develop this creature
The building unlocks this form. Availability and hiring are separate.
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.
Air Elemental · reference values before bonuses| Creatures | Total cost | Base health |
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| 1 | | 40 |
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| 5 | | 200 |
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| 10 | | 400 |
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Reading this profile correctly
Action speed, combat movement and adventure-map movement are separate attributes. Weekly growth compares reference values; Heroes IV replenishes creatures daily.
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.
Numerical reference source ↗
Original roster scope
74 creatures from historical Jaskinia Behemota tables: 48 town creatures and 26 neutrals, including four from The Gathering Storm and three from Winds of War. This is not a separate Equilibris database. Action speed, combat movement and adventure movement are distinct stats. Melee and ranged defense are listed separately. Growth is a weekly comparison value; Heroes IV adds creatures daily. Check how a neutral creature can actually be obtained.
