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Heroes IV · CREATURE PROFILE

Dragon Golem in Heroes IV: stats, cost and abilities

Dragon Golem in Heroes IV: Mechanical fighter for the opening exchange. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 220 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Mechanical fighter for the opening exchange

Check First Strike and the cancellation of enemy First Strike before contact.

Watch for: The Dragon name grants neither breath nor complete magic immunity.

Exact dwelling, growth and items →
Dragon Golem — creature appearance in Heroes 4
Source · Game artwork

How to use this creature in practice

Mechanical fighter for the opening exchange

Check First Strike and the cancellation of enemy First Strike before contact. Seek exchanges where an early hit reduces returning damage.

Watch for: The Dragon name grants neither breath nor complete magic immunity. Use only this profile’s traits.

Melee attack
34
Ranged attack
—
Melee defense
34
Ranged defense
34
Damage
36–55
Health
220
Action speed
9
Combat movement
12
Adventure movement
27
Shots
0
Mana
0
Weekly growth
2
Experience per creature
630

Cost per creature: 4000 gold + 4 ore

Edition: Heroes IV

Alignment: Order

Abilities and limitations

  • Mechanical

    Unaffected by morale and effects requiring a living body. Ordinary healing for living creatures is therefore not a universal repair method.

  • Negate First Strike

    Cancels an opponent’s First Strike advantage. Check this trait before relying on an early hit, rather than comparing speed alone.

  • First Strike

    Hits before the opponent’s ordinary retaliation during an exchange. Casualties inflicted first can reduce the returning hit.

Reference ↗

Where to obtain and develop this creature

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

Growth and construction prerequisites (4)

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

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.

Dragon Golem · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 4,000 gold
  • 4 ore
220
5
  • 20,000 gold
  • 20 ore
1,100
10
  • 40,000 gold
  • 40 ore
2,200

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.