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Heroes IV · CREATURE PROFILE

Goblin Knight in Heroes IV: stats, cost and abilities

Goblin Knight in Heroes IV: Resilient melee against First Strike. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 120 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Resilient melee against First Strike

Use Negate First Strike to choose exchanges and Stone Skin to assess defense.

Watch for: Listed defenses already include the innate bonus.

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

How to use this creature in practice

Resilient melee against First Strike

Use Negate First Strike to choose exchanges and Stone Skin to assess defense. Magic resistance supplies a different protection.

Watch for: Listed defenses already include the innate bonus. Spell resistance is not physical defense.

Melee attack
20
Ranged attack
—
Melee defense
26
Ranged defense
26
Damage
16–30
Health
120
Action speed
7
Combat movement
12
Adventure movement
27
Shots
0
Mana
0
Weekly growth
4
Experience per creature
157

Cost per creature: 1000 gold

Edition: The Gathering Storm

Alignment: Chaos

Abilities and limitations

  • Negate First Strike

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

  • Stone Skin

    The innate trait increases defense by 25%. The matching spell does not add another identical bonus; do not multiply listed defense again.

  • Magic resistance

    50% chance to resist a hostile spell, also reducing spell damage. This is not complete immunity; beneficial magic follows its own targeting rules.

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.

Goblin Knight · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 1,000 gold
120
5
  • 5,000 gold
600
10
  • 10,000 gold
1,200

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.