Castle

This article refers to the town. For the town structure named Castle, see Fortifications.

	Castle
Fully built Castle as seen on the adventure map in Horn of the Abyss	Towns
	Rampart
	Tower
	Inferno
	Necropolis
	Dungeon
	Stronghold
	Fortress
	Conflux
	Cove
	Factory

Castle is a good alignment town with the Knight and Cleric hero classes. Castle represents Erathia.

"Castles are home to the Cleric and Knight hero classes. Castle armies are primarily composed of human men-at-arms, though these towns have also formed an alliance with the griffins and are under the protection of angels. With two types of ranged attack units and two flying unit types available, Castle-based armies are well equipped to quickly engage and defeat their enemies." ^{RoE manual}

Castle's native terrain is grass.

Castle building tree

Building Category

Cost

Common

45

40

37000

Mage Guild

20

18

20

18

5000

Dwellings

47

24

52

24

29

24

61500

Unique

35

10

7500

Total Building Cost:

147

42

122

42

47

42

111000

Troop Cost / Week:

29580

+ 6

Common Buildings and Mage Guild

Halls

Fortifications

Miscellaneous

Mage Guilds

Banned spells

Village Hall
(existing)

Fort

20

5000

Tavern

5

500

Mage Guild level 1

5

2000

Town Hall

2500

Citadel

5

2500

Marketplace

5

500

Mage Guild level 2

5

4

5

4

1000

City Hall

5000

Castle

10

5000

Resource Silo (1

, 1

)

5

5000

Mage Guild level 3

5

6

5

6

1000

Capitol

10000

Blacksmith

5

1000

Mage Guild level 4

5

8

5

8

1000

Total Common Buildings:

45

40

37000

Total Mage Guild:

20

18

20

18

5000

Creature Dwellings

Structure

Base Cost

Upgrade Cost

Creature

Max
Grw

Upg Cr
Cost

Cost/
Week

Guardhouse

10

500

5

1000

Pikeman

Halberdier

28

75

2100

Archers' Tower

5

1000

5

1000

Archer

Marksman

18

150

2700

Griffin Tower

5

1000

5

1000

Griffin

Royal Griffin

17

240

4080

Barracks

5

2000

5

2000

Swordsman

Crusader

8

400

3200

Monastery

5

2

5

2

3000

2

1000

Monk

Zealot

6

450

2700

Training Grounds

20

5000

10

3000

Cavalier

Champion

4

1200

4800

Portal of Glory

10

20000

10

20000

Angel

Archangel

2

5000

3

10000

6

Total Dwelling Cost:

47

24

52

24

29

24

61500

Weekly Troop Cost:

29580

6

Unique Buildings

Structure

Effect

Cost

Brotherhood of the Sword

+2 morale for defending hero

5

500

Shipyard

Allows building boats if the town has access to water.

20

2000

Lighthouse

Gives +500 movement points for heroes in a boat. The effect is cumulative.

10

2000

Stables

Visiting heroes get +400 movement points per day for the rest of the week.

10

2000

Griffin Bastion

Horde Building. Growth +3/week for

Griffin /

Royal Griffin

1000

Colossus

Grail Structure. +5000

/day, +50% creature growth
Increases the morale of all of the owner's heroes by 2.

n/a

Total Cost:

35

10

7500

Heroes

Name	Class	Specialty	Skill 1	Skill 2	Spell
Orrin	Knight	Archery	Basic Leadership	Basic Archery
Valeska	Knight	Archers	Basic Leadership	Basic Archery
Edric	Knight	Griffins	Basic Leadership	Basic Armorer
Sylvia	Knight	Navigation	Basic Leadership	Basic Navigation
Beatrice	Knight	Scouting	Basic Leadership	Basic Scouting
Lord Haart	Knight	Estates	Basic Leadership	Basic Estates
Sorsha	Knight	Swordsmen	Basic Leadership	Basic Offense
Christian	Knight	Ballista	Basic Leadership	Basic Artillery
Tyris	Knight	Cavaliers	Basic Leadership	Basic Tactics
Sir Mullich	Knight	Speed	Advanced Leadership
Adela	Cleric	Bless	Basic Wisdom	Basic Diplomacy	Bless
Cuthbert	Cleric	Weakness	Basic Wisdom	Basic Estates	Weakness
Adelaide	Cleric	Frost Ring	Advanced Wisdom		Frost Ring
Ingham	Cleric	Monks	Basic Wisdom	Basic Mysticism	Curse
Sanya	Cleric	Eagle Eye	Basic Wisdom	Basic Eagle Eye	Dispel
Loynis	Cleric	Prayer	Basic Wisdom	Basic Learning	Prayer
Caitlin	Cleric	Gold	Basic Wisdom	Basic Intelligence	Cure
Rion	Cleric	First Aid	Basic Wisdom	Basic First Aid	Stone Skin

Banned secondary skills:

Some skills are not available for certain hero classes, which means they can only acquire them from Scholars, Witch Huts (except for Necromancy and Leadership, if not allowed by a map-maker), Seer's Huts, Events or Pandora's Boxes.

Necromancy is not available for knights.

Necromancy and Interference areis not available for clerics.

Creatures

Name	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special

Pikeman Pikeman	1	4	5	1	3	10	4	14	80	60		Immune to jousting
Halberdier Halberdier	1⁺	6	5	2	3	10	5	14	115	75		Immune to jousting
Archer Archer	2	6	3	2	3	10	4	9	126	100		Ranged (12 shots)
Marksman Marksman	2⁺	6	3	2	3	10	6	9	184	150		Ranged (24 shots), Double attack
Griffin Griffin	3	8	8	3	6	25	6	7	351	200		Flying, Two retaliations
Royal Griffin Royal Griffin	3⁺	9	9	3	6	25	9	7	448	240		Flying, Unlimited retaliations
Swordsman Swordsman	4	10	12	6	9	35	5	4	445	300
Crusader Crusader	4⁺	12	12	7	10	35	6	4	588	400		Double attack
Monk Monk	5	12	7	10	12	30	5	3	582 485	400		Ranged (12 shots)
Zealot Zealot	5⁺	12	10	10	12	30	7	3	750	450		Ranged (24 shots), No melee penalty
Cavalier Cavalier	6	15	15	15	25	100	7	2	1946	1000		Jousting
Champion Champion	6⁺	16	16	20	25	100	9	2	2100	1200		Jousting
Angel Angel	7	20	20	50	50	200	12	1	5019	3000	1	Flying, Hates Devils , Morale +1
Archangel Archangel	7⁺	30	30	50	50	250	18	1	8776	5000	3	Flying, Hates Devils, Resurrection, Morale +1

Town names

Unless specified by the mapmaker, towns will generate with a random name. Castle towns will use one of these following names:

Alexandretta	Armitage	Brettonia	Castellatus
Claxton	Cornerstone	Dunwall	Gateway
Highcastle	Kanan	Kildare	Middleheim
Transom	Whistledale	Whitemoon	Whitestone

If there are more Castle towns on the map than possible names, they will use names taken from other towns.

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Some may find the information in this section subjective or irrelevant.

With two types of ranged attack units and two flying creature types available, Castle-based armies are well equipped to quickly engage and defeat their enemies.
Build and upgrade Portal of Glory by the cost of neglecting other dwellings and mage guild, or even recruiting other creatures.
Divide Archangels in several stacks (preferably in the multiples of three), so they can resurrect each other.
Brothehood of the Sword increases the morale bonus of defending creatures' by +2 in additon to Tavern's bonus. In other words, creatures defending a Castle towns with Brotherhood of the Sword have morale of +3. This becomes very useful if you want to mix troops from different town types together. However, because all Knights start with Leadership, the bonus is only valuable when using Cleric (or other hero classes) to defend the town.

Pros:

Many useful creature specialties.
Versatile units including two flying units, two ranged units.
Stables can provide heroes +400 movement points per remaining day of the week, which means roughly +20% more movement for heroes.
Shipyard, Lighthouse, and Sylvia with Navigation specialty are all very useful on maps with significant water area.

Cons:

Second most expensive creatures, Tower having the most. Hard to obtain the required 6 gems/week.
The 6th level dwelling (Training Grounds) can be hard to build, as it requires 20 .
No units with immunity or resistance.
Most of non-upgraded units are significantly weaker than the their upgraded counterparts; upgrading them takes time and resources.
Fragile ranged units.
Grass which is Castle's native terrain doesn't give any movement penalty to the enemy.

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