Neutral creatures · Neutral creature
Earth Elemental
How to use this creature in practice
Melee core and holding approaches
Earth Elemental 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
Combat movement 4 and Initiative 40 are separate. Choose a reachable target by current order and the actual physical or magical attack type.
- Petrification: Turns the target into invulnerable stone for one round. An enemy cannot act; a friendly target can end the effect by taking an action.
- Earth regeneration: Earth Elemental restores health at the start of its turn. Regenerating a surviving creature does not automatically recover every fallen member of the stack.
- Might damage
- 15–16
- Magic damage
- —
- Might protection
- 34 %
- Magic protection
- 34 %
- Health
- 100
- Initiative
- 40
- Combat movement
- 4
- Ranged reach
- —
- Morale
- 7
- Luck
- 5
- Reference growth
- 4
Cost per creature: 460 gold
Abilities and limitations
Petrification
Turns the target into invulnerable stone for one round. An enemy cannot act; a friendly target can end the effect by taking an action.
Earth regeneration
Earth Elemental restores health at the start of its turn. Regenerating a surviving creature does not automatically recover every fallen member of the stack.
Elemental affinity
Its own element deals 50% less damage and the opposing element 50% more. Harmful effects of its element are resisted; identify the element from the specific elemental.
Spirit Form
Starts battle with 50% protection against all damage until taking an action such as attacking or moving. Wait and Defend do not by themselves end this protection.
Living
Can receive applicable healing and resurrection and is affected by morale. A particular spell must still satisfy its own targeting rules.