Retaliation

Retaliation refers to the counterattack of a stack that has been target if melee attack. Typically creature stacks have one retaliation per combat round. Griffins have two retaliations and Royal Griffins have unlimited number of retaliations. Also with the Counterstrike spell, a hero can magically increase the number of retaliations from one to two or three per combat round. Additionally, some creatures have special ability that allows no enemy retaliation. A creature will retaliate against the first creature without "no enemy retaliation" to attack it in melee (meaning, you can't use creatures with "no enemy retaliation" to prevent an enemy creature from retaliating that round).