Hydra should take reachable melee exchanges or hold an approach to more valuable units. Before advancing, identify its next target and enemies able to attack it afterward.
Watch for: Base stats are not the final exchange result. Account for retaliation, current creature count, target immunity and subsequent action order.
Timing, specific abilities and the follow-up plan
Speed 5 sets movement reach; Initiative 7 concerns ATB. A movement change is not the same change in action frequency.
Large Creature: Occupies a 2 × 2 footprint and needs enough space to move or land.
No Enemy Retaliation: Melee attacks prevent enemy retaliation under the ability’s normal rule.
Attack
15
Defense
12
Damage
7–14
Health
80
Speed
5
Shots
0
Base weekly growth
3
Initiative
7
Mana
0
Experience per creature
57
Cost per creature: 550 gold
Abilities and limitations
Large Creature
Occupies a 2 × 2 footprint and needs enough space to move or land.
No Enemy Retaliation
Melee attacks prevent enemy retaliation under the ability’s normal rule.
Enraged
Attack increases when a friendly stack dies. Resurrected and magically summoned stacks are excluded from this trigger.
Three-headed Attack
Hits multiple adjacent enemy tiles: all six for Hydra, three for Cerberus and Firehound.
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.
Hydra · reference values before bonuses
Creatures
Total cost
Base health
1
550 gold
80
5
2,750 gold
400
10
5,500 gold
800
Reading this profile correctly
The reference is Tribes of the East 3.1. Initiative concerns ATB and Speed concerns movement; increasing one does not automatically increase the other. Upgrades and alternatives have separate profiles.
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.
177 creatures from the Tribes of the East 3.1 manual: 168 faction variants and 9 neutrals. Original and alternative upgrades remain separate. Stats exclude heroes, artifacts and spells. Speed determines range; Initiative determines ATB action timing. Costs include rare resources and are per creature.
