Monk and Zealot

Castle creatures
Level 1
Pikeman
Halberdier
Level 2
Archer
Marksman
Level 3
Griffin
Royal Griffin
Level 4
Swordsman
Crusader
Level 5
Monk
Zealot
Level 6
Cavalier
Champion
Level 7
Angel
Archangel
Towns

Statistics
Monk
Cost per troop  400
	Attack 12 Defense 7 Damage 10–12 Health 30 Speed 5 Movement Ground Size 1 Shots 12 Growth 3 AI Value 485
Special abilities:
• Ranged attack
Zealot
Cost per troop  450
	Attack 12 Defense 10 Damage 10–12 Health 30 Speed 7 Movement Ground Size 1 Shots 24 Growth 3 AI Value 750
Special abilities:
• Ranged attack • No melee penalty

Monks and Zealots are level 5 creatures of Castle. They can be recruited from Monasteries.

"Monks and zealots train themselves to control and project their personal energistic forces, which they deliver as ranged blasts. While monks suffer the normal penalty for ranged unit hand-to-hand attack damage (50%), the better trained zealots do not." ^{RoE manual}

Tactics and info

Their stats are very low for a level 5, but they are indispensable due to their ranged attack. However, it's only enough for the enemy to strike this unit a few times and it's dead (even if they have no melee penalty with upgrade), so they should be well protected if they are to still deal some damage and survive harder battles. Their stats are also almost the same as the level 4 Arch magi, and their specialties weaker for the same cost and lower growth.

Heroes with a specialty

• Ingham the Cleric has monks as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any monks or zealots for each level attained after 5th level and gives them a speed bonus of 1.
• Dracon the Wizard can upgrade Mages and Arch Mages (also Monks and Zealots) into Enchanters.

Horn of the Abyss

• In Hota AI Value of Monks was increased to 582.
• Shadows of Monks and Zealots' adventure map view were fixed:

See also:

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• List of creatures
• List of creatures (HotA)