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Heroes IV · CREATURE PROFILE

Gargantuan in Heroes IV: stats, cost and abilities

Gargantuan in Heroes IV: Double area shooting. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 300 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Double area shooting

Target clustered enemies and check the area of both hits before confirming.

Watch for: Area attacks require attention to friendly stacks.

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

How to use this creature in practice

Double area shooting

Target clustered enemies and check the area of both hits before confirming. No Melee Penalty is a fallback when engaged.

Watch for: Area attacks require attention to friendly stacks. Two shots are not automatically twice the final result.

Melee attack
32
Ranged attack
32
Melee defense
32
Ranged defense
32
Damage
28–40
Health
300
Action speed
4
Combat movement
7⅓
Adventure movement
21
Shots
16
Mana
0
Weekly growth
2
Experience per creature
800

Cost per creature: 4000 gold + 2 crystals

Edition: The Gathering Storm

Alignment: Nature

Abilities and limitations

  • Area attack

    Hits several stacks around the impact point. Spacing units apart reduces the chance of losing several important targets to one attack.

  • Two shots

    Fires twice during a ranged action, with possible retaliation between shots. Track surviving shooters as well as ammunition.

  • No melee penalty

    The shooter avoids the usual melee attack penalty. Its ammunition count does not limit how many melee attacks it can make.

  • Ranged attack

    Enables regular ranged attacks. Use the separately listed melee attack when engaged; the ranged rating does not carry over.

Reference ↗

Where to obtain and develop this creature

This reference assigns no direct town dwelling. Read the profile’s availability and abilities for acquisition.

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.

Gargantuan · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 4,000 gold
  • 2 crystals
300
5
  • 20,000 gold
  • 10 crystals
1,500
10
  • 40,000 gold
  • 20 crystals
3,000

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.