Editing Wandering creature (section)

== Combat with wandering creatures ==

The number of creature stacks on the [[battlefield]], is dependent on the ratio of [[army strength]]s between the attacking hero and the wandering creatures, with fewer stacks the greater the player's advantage.  There is some variance, but it is not random: every tile on the adventure map influences the number of stacks by plus or minus 1.

Since they only contain one type of creatures, they always have +1 [[morale]] unless they are [[undead]], [[elementals]], or other creatures unaffected by morale.

If the creature is non-upgraded, there can be also one stack of upgraded creatures included in the battle, decided randomly at the start of a game (not by the mapmaker). This stack always appears in the middle of the army. Having an upgraded stack has no bearing on the AI or RMG values of the army on the adventure map. Since only one stack can be upgraded, using a less powerful army can sometimes be advantageous as it means the army will split into more stacks, thereby making the upgraded stack account for fewer troops. There is a bug where a defeated hero (including one who [[retreat]]s) will cause a number of troops equal to the size of the upgraded stack to be deleted from the wandering army; nonetheless, the wandering creature will still contain one upgraded stack the next time it is engaged. [[Creature Bank]]s can also feature one upgraded stack.