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Heroes IV · CREATURE PROFILE

Thunderbird in Heroes IV: stats, cost and abilities

Thunderbird in Heroes IV: Flying attack with additional Lightning. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 170 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Flying attack with additional Lightning

Attack a target where both the physical hit and follow-up lightning matter.

Watch for: The lightning component has separate magical restrictions.

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

How to use this creature in practice

Flying attack with additional Lightning

Attack a target where both the physical hit and follow-up lightning matter. Plan around landing and further enemy actions.

Watch for: The lightning component has separate magical restrictions. Base Damage alone is not final damage.

Melee attack
30
Ranged attack
—
Melee defense
30
Ranged defense
30
Damage
28–40
Health
170
Action speed
6
Combat movement
13⅓
Adventure movement
29
Shots
0
Mana
0
Weekly growth
3
Experience per creature
406

Cost per creature: 1800 gold + 2 mercury

Edition: Heroes IV

Alignment: Might

Abilities and limitations

  • Lightning attack

    Adds lightning dealing 30 damage per Thunderbird to its normal hit. Magic protection can affect the lightning separately from the physical strike.

  • Flying

    Crosses obstacles, units and walls during combat movement. It still needs a free, reachable landing position.

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.

Thunderbird · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 1,800 gold
  • 2 mercury
170
5
  • 9,000 gold
  • 10 mercury
850
10
  • 18,000 gold
  • 20 mercury
1,700

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.