Swordsman and Crusader

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
Swordsman
Cost per troop  300
	Attack 10 Defense 12 Damage 6–9 Health 35 Speed 5 Movement Ground Size 1 Growth 4 AI Value 445
Crusader
Cost per troop  400
	Attack 12 Defense 12 Damage 7–10 (x2) Health 35 Speed 6 Movement Ground Size 1 Growth 4 AI Value 588
Special abilities:
• Double attack

Swordsmen and Crusaders are level 4 creatures of Castle. They can be recruited from Barracks.

"Well armed and armored, swordsmen and crusaders are better all-around foot soldiers than their pikemen companions. Crusaders deliver two blows per attack." ^{RoE manual}

Tactics and info

Both are relatively slow troops, but especially Crusaders with their double strike have high capability of doing damage, being able to compete with level 5 and even level 6 units in terms of raw damage per unit. It's recommended to use crusaders to cripple lower tier enemy units, being sure to kill a good part of the stack, or take advantage of certain situation to kill some of the enemy's essential troops.

Heroes with a specialty

• Catherine the Knight and
• Sorsha the Knight have swordsmen as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any swordsmen or crusaders for each level attained after 4th level and gives them a speed bonus of 1.
• Roland the Knight's specialty is bugged so it affects crusaders only.

See also:

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• List of creatures
• List of creatures (HotA)