Minotaur Guard 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 5 and Initiative 40 are separate. Choose a reachable target by current order and the actual physical or magical attack type.
Mighty Slash: Minotaur Guard hits for normal damage without retaliation and pushes a smaller target back two tiles. The new position can open space for another ally.
Preemptive Strike: Minotaur retaliates before the attacker’s blow lands. Casualties can therefore reduce the strength of the incoming hit.
Might damage
18–22
Magic damage
—
Might protection
37 %
Magic protection
35 %
Health
100
Initiative
40
Combat movement
5
Ranged reach
—
Morale
11
Luck
6
Reference growth
4
Cost per creature: 475 gold
Abilities and limitations
Mighty Slash
Minotaur Guard hits for normal damage without retaliation and pushes a smaller target back two tiles. The new position can open space for another ally.
Preemptive Strike
Minotaur retaliates before the attacker’s blow lands. Casualties can therefore reduce the strength of the incoming hit.
Fighting Spirit
A normal voluntary attack adds 6 morale to the Minotaur, up to 30. Retaliation does not trigger it and the bonus cannot be dispelled.
Disciple of Malassa
The Dungeon creature gains 10% Dark protection and 10% Light vulnerability. Healing Light spells can damage hostile Dungeon creatures.
Living
Can receive applicable healing and resurrection and is affected by morale. A particular spell must still satisfy its own targeting rules.
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.
Minotaur Guard · reference values before bonuses
Creatures
Total cost
Base health
1
475 gold
100
5
2,375 gold
500
10
4,750 gold
1,000
Reading this profile correctly
Read Might/Magic damage and protection separately. Protection percentages are not raw Defense attributes. Campaign forms, bosses and transformations do not establish separate ordinary recruitment.
The table separates Might and Magic damage, including the element. Protection percentages are not raw defense attributes; ability bonuses cannot simply be added to them. Growth belongs to the listed reference recruitment form and does not guarantee the same count in every town and patch. Ranged reach is not ammunition. Read separate conditions for bosses and Namtaru forms.
111 stat profiles from eight historical Acid Cave inventories: 86 faction forms, 12 neutrals and 13 bosses. The faction inventory covers 84 base and upgraded creatures, with additional separate humanoid and spider forms for Fate Spinner and Fate Weaver. A boss is not an ordinary recruit. Might and Magic damage are separate; protection percentages are not raw defense attributes. Values describe the cited reference tables rather than every patch and scenario.
