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Heroes VII · CREATURE PROFILE

Dire Wolf in Heroes VII: stats, cost and abilities

Dire Wolf in Heroes VII: Melee core and holding approaches. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 21 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Melee core and holding approaches

Dire Wolf should take reachable melee exchanges or hold an approach to more valuable units.

Watch for: Base stats are not the final exchange result.

Exact dwelling, growth and items →
Dire Wolf — creature appearance in Heroes 7
Source · Game artwork

Haven · Core

Dire Wolf

Base form

How to use this creature in practice

Melee core and holding approaches

Dire Wolf 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 27 are separate. Choose a reachable target by current order and the actual physical or magical attack type.

  • Unlimited Retaliations: Can answer every attack that permits retaliation. An attacker’s explicit prevention of retaliation remains a separate condition.
Attack
4
Defense
2
Health
21
Damage · Might
3–6
Initiative
27
Combat movement
5
Ranged reach
—
Morale
15
Luck
0
Base dwelling growth
10

Cost per creature: 110 gold

Growth 10 belongs to the basic recruitment line in the dwelling reference. It does not guarantee the same reinforcements after town, weekly and hero bonuses.

Recruitment-line growth reference ↗

Abilities and limitations

  • Unlimited Retaliations

    Can answer every attack that permits retaliation. An attacker’s explicit prevention of retaliation remains a separate condition.

Heroes connected to this creature

Growth while governing a town (1)

This hero increases recruitment-line growth only as governor of the relevant town and within its area of control. Both forms share one line; their base and upgrade values are not added together. Creatures still require recruitment and payment.

Army in the reference table (7)

These counts come from the cited hero table. A scenario and recruitment conditions can change them.

Reference ↗

Where to obtain and develop this creature

The building unlocks this form. Availability and hiring are separate.

Growth and construction prerequisites (1)

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.

Dire Wolf · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 110 gold
21
5
  • 550 gold
105
10
  • 1,100 gold
210

Reading this profile correctly

Distinguish a base creature from its upgrade and an alternative Champion. Fortress and other content have edition labels. A warfare unit’s five scaling ranks are not creature counts.

Attack and defense are numeric attributes; damage also has its own type or element. Full and half ranged reach describe an attack mode rather than ammunition. Compare Champions with their mutually exclusive dwellings. Warfare units use separate control and scaling; the five stages in their tables are not creature counts.

Numerical reference source ↗

Original roster scope

156 profiles: 112 base and upgraded town creatures from seven factions, 25 neutrals and 19 warfare units. Includes Fortress and other Trial by Fire creatures, separately identifying verified Lost Tales of Axeoth content. Historical Acid Cave stats include rebalanced Champions; this is not a UCP or Heroes 7.5 table. Base dwelling growth has separate references and is still missing for 14 profiles. Warfare units have their own stage 1–5 effect tables; their base parameters do not cover every Warfare level.