Minotaur 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 35 are separate. Choose a reachable target by current order and the actual physical or magical attack type.
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.
Might damage
15–19
Magic damage
—
Might protection
34 %
Magic protection
34 %
Health
90
Initiative
35
Combat movement
5
Ranged reach
—
Morale
10
Luck
5
Reference growth
3
Cost per creature: 410 gold
Abilities and limitations
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 · reference values before bonuses
Creatures
Total cost
Base health
1
410 gold
90
5
2,050 gold
450
10
4,100 gold
900
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.
