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For a pretty high cost in gold {{g}}, these dragons are still a good deal. However, don't rely only on them and make sure you have money for other troops too. | For a pretty high cost in gold {{g}}, these dragons are still a good deal to have a very high level creature (since you don't need to pay for a buildable dwelling). However, don't rely only on them and make sure you have money for other troops too. | ||
As a resource generator, a Crystal Dragon will take four weeks to recoup their crystal cost only (3 crystal per week, while they cost 10 crystal). Additional Crystal Dragons will have no effect. This makes them non-competitive in this role, although it is at least somewhat useful in very long campaigns. | |||
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If you want your dragons to be even scarier, [[Offense]] and [[Armorer]] are excellent choices, skills from which most other creatures benefit from. | If you want your dragons to be even scarier, [[Offense]] and [[Armorer]] are excellent choices, skills from which most other creatures benefit from. They also benefit from the Dragon specialty of the [[Mutare]] hero, and dragon-focused artifacts. | ||
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Revision as of 10:30, 2 December 2024
| Neutral creatures | |
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| Level 1 | |
 Peasant
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| Level 2 | |
 Rogue
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 Boar
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 Leprechaun 
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| Level 3 | |
 Nomad
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 Mummy
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| Level 4 | |
 Sharpshooter
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 Satyr
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 Steel Golem
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| Level 5 | |
 Troll
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 Gold Golem
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 Fangarm
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| Level 6 | |
 Diamond Golem
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 Enchanter
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| Level 7 | |
 Faerie Dragon
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 Rust Dragon
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 Crystal Dragon
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 Azure Dragon
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Crystal Dragons are level 7 neutral creatures recruited from the Crystal Cavern.
"Made entirely from red crystal and brought to life through magical means, the Crystal Dragon is literally semitransparent, lit from the center by its magical heart. Used frequently as a training tool for young dragon slayers, many wizards also create these creatures for the crystal they shed." AB manual
Unlike the majority of dragons, Crystal Dragons cannot fly and they don't have a breath attack, i.e. they damage only the troops directly attacked by them. Placing Crystal Dragons (as well as any living Dragons) in the Skeleton Transformer will give you Bone Dragons instead of regular Skeletons.
Although they are described as magically-created "dragon golems", they are considered living dragons.
Special Ability: Crystal Generation
Crystal Dragons have vaguely phrased special ability called crystal generation. It produces three crystal 
at the beginning of each week if the player has at least one crystal dragon in any of their armies. The effect is not cumulative, which means that having more than one Crystal Dragon in the kingdom will not yield more crystal.
Heroes with a specialty
Mutare the Overlord 
and
Mutare Drake the Overlord have dragons as a specialty. All dragons receive +5 Attack and +5 Defense.
Appearance
Crystal Dragons were added in Armageddon's Blade, so there are no Crystal Dragons or Crystal Caverns in Restoration of Erathia. They also appear at the end of the Crystal Dragons scenario from the Dragon Slayer campaign in Armageddon's Blade.
