Category:Heroes

From The Five Pillars

Every hero has a few abilities which become available from a certain level. For your hero to level up he needs to gain experience, heroes gain a little experience every turn so this comes with time.

Abilities have their own levels determining how powerful their effect will be, so if you have a level 16 hero with an ability that became available at level 9 this ability will be level 8.

There are two main types of heroes:

Battle heroes will use their abilities at the start of a battle giving the enemy certain disadvantages or your own troops advantages just like spells would. But be advised, almost all effects can be resisted (these off the Neutral Heroes can't be resisted.)
Other heroes cannot be killed since they don't enter battle, you can only lose them by dismissing them or if you can't pay their upkeep. These heroes obviously also don't help you in battle but by other means.

Battle heroes will go into battle together with your units. One hero will command the first stack, the second the second stack, etc... If there are no more free stacks the next hero will join the command of your first stack, this with a maximum of 2,5 heroes per stack. There is no rule that says that your most experienced hero will command the first stack, this is at random.
A hero will fight alongside your stack and in fact is the first to attack the enemy, as he/she should offcourse. If your stack is wiped out later on, the hero does have a big chance to perish with his troops. If, in the process of destroying the stack, enough additional damage is done to take away all the hero's HP, it dies. Otherwise, it will escape and stay alive under your control.

You obviously can have more than one hero, but only one hero of each kind. Should you get more than one hero of the same kind, a fight to the death will be fought and the more experienced will remain.

To quote starlord: Hero abilities have to pass the same magic resistances as spells. So yes, ultimates and complex units resisting them is quite natural. The use is that, even though some will be resisted, others will pass through and boost your units. It gives medium and simple units an advantage and a disadvantage as they are more prone to be affected by both your heros' abilties as well as those of your enemy's heros. It also means you should pick heroes according to the units you use, so that your units have relatively low resistances to the hero's you use.

levels

level 1: 0-999
level 2: 1000-2999
level 3: 3000-5999
level 4: 6000-9999
level 5: 10000-14999
level 6: 15000-20999
level 7: 21000-27999
level 8: 28000-35999
level 9: 36000-44999
level 10: 45000-54999
level 11: 55000-65999
level 12: 66000-77999
level 13: 78000-90999
level 14: 91000-104999
level 15: 105000-119999
level 16: 120000-135999
level 17: 136000-152999
level 18: 153000-170999
level 19: 171000-189999
level 20: 190000-209999
level 21: 210000-230999
level 22: 231000-252999
level 23: 253000-... -> maximum level